Yamatoe reached its peak through the Rimpa school, represented by Korin Ogata and Soutatsu Tawaraya. Firstly, such Japanese fine arts began as architectural wall ornamentation during the Heian era. Eventually freer, decorative Japanese arts, such as "ukiyoe", gave influences to contemporary, occidental western artists, for example, Gustav Klimt, Van Gogh, and others. A new trend of the 20th Century was freely modeled art including Fauvism and Cubism. Artists were not trapped by the existing object but let it become an opportunity to create free form. In the postwar period, Japanese culture especially "wabi" and "sabi" greatly influenced occidental abstract artists, such as Mark Tobey and Eve KIein. However, as abstract painting, pop art, conceptual art, etc. progressed, traditional views on "beauty" became irrelevant in art. Soon the traditionally beautiful thing was no longer valued, and as art became more self confident, awareness of traditional beauty faded.
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