This image's exoticism and the title link with JD Fergusson's earlier portraits. During his Paris years, Fergusson painted many studio portraits, typically setting his sitters against lush textile drapes decorated with flowers and foliage.

📷 Voile Indienne, 1933

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Phalaenopsis orchid

I'm old enough to be continually astonished and delighted that orchids are widely available and affordable. They were flowers of fable and exoticism when I was little.

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bought by @ Exoticismz 🐇

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Elephants represented things 'foreign' and 'exotic'. emphasised exoticism also in other details such as the Chinese and Western figures. The tricolour printing in the title cartouche indicates that this impression is one of the earliest.

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YEAH. People think it’s somehow racist for brown characters to have white hair bc??? Exoticism?? Or something?? It has become a trend in recent years but I adore it, it looks nice. Good value contrast. Case in point: they

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Finding examples of this Orientalism/Exoticism aesthetic that was prominent in the late 90s through the mid 2000s. Like Shania Twain recording 'Bollywood-inspired' versions of each song on her 2002 album.

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The Brotherhood's sense of fashion reveals that they don't give a shit what what humanity thinks about them. To give their costumes a sense of exoticism, I leaned into superhero fashion as hard as possible. Bright colors, huge shoulder pads, weird headgear... ->

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Our worldbook was rereleased recently with some changes, and I've made a few maps recently. I also am currently writing a blog post on DnD and exoticism. <3!

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Cashmere. Sargent loved a shawl, particularly this paisley one, which he paired over & over again with his niece Rose-Marie. It was less about texture & more about pattern, an abstract way to break up the blinding sheen of satin whites, entwining leisure with luxury & exoticism.

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'Lamia reflects Keats’s career-long preoccupation with exoticism, beauty, love, death, and poetry itself'. 200 yrs ago (or c. 1 July 1820!), Keats publishes Lamia in his last volume - a new Blog post by https://t.co/rEYqFpDVvs

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the "dont draw with ovals" dude's horny nightmare art looks like a fuckin hans bellmer piece made by someone with an exoticism fetish

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‘Loca’ by Casamance is an explosion of colour and exoticism, perfect for summery optimism! 🍍🍍🍍

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The exoticism of this image provides links with Fergusson's earlier portraits. During his Paris years Fergusson painted many studio portraits, typically setting his sitters against luxuriant textile drapes decorated with flowers and foliage

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From Freud and Ovid to the exoticism of the pre-apocalyptic landscape, writer Meehan Crist comes to on Thursday to discuss grief and loss in our rapidly changing world: https://t.co/zCK1TvRmU2

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