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Eastern Influences on Modern Culture <Tab/>The opening of feudal Japan, in 1853, to the western world created an influx of commercial goods from the east into western cultures. Along with ordinary goods came works of art as well as ideas that were in great contrast to those of modern western cultures; these ideas and methods had a significant influence on the development of modern culture in the west. Most notably eastern …

…physics. The introduction of eastern philosophies and artwork has also led to many changes in the world of art that have become characteristic of modern culture; eastern influence can be seen today in many works of art, the brilliant colour fields of painter Mark Rothko no doubt consciously or subconsciously inspired by eastern ideas of time and space. "Eventually Monet, Manet, Gauguin and Van Gogh would all acknowledge their debt to this Asian influence."(Shlain 159).