We admire the masterpieces of the art of the East as much as antiquity and Renaissance, Gothic and classicism. Meanwhile, only some 50-70 years ago, only a few knew about the art of Asia and Africa in Europe. Of course, Europeans traded with the countries of these continents back in the Middle Ages. Individual luxury goods - Chinese porcelain and silk, Indian fabrics, Iranian carpets - have long adorned European palaces, and later mansions. The beginning of the 18th century is colored by a passion for Chinese art (albeit understood purely externally), the 19th century opened Japanese color engraving, the first decade of the 20th century - African wooden sculpture. But this remained the lot of a select few - primarily artists, connoisseurs, collectors and scientists. It can be said without exaggeration that, first of all, it was thanks to the artists that the world joined the art of the East.