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But im sensing its not one that you buy. chuckles no, i dont buy that. but i buy this. he wasnt a typical orientalist. i mean, orientalism liked idle figures doing nothing. but he painted people reading or making music. whats really attractive is this idea that here is someone from turkey whos engaging with this quite problematic tradition of orientalism and somehow, what? hes subtly transforming it, hes — hes reclaiming it? yes, we can say that. he was painting the orient within the orient. w...

That this was almost like a very high, classy advertisement for what he could do. this is an image which is projecting status, fashionability — the elite taste of the time. i mean, ok, cosplay may be not quite the art—historically appropriate term, but theres a sort of sense of dressing up that clearly, his clients, they wanted that. yeah, exactly. the beginnings of all of that fantastical side, if you like, of orientalism. i feel theres glimmerings of that here. so fundamentally, orientalis...

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