Colonialism in Asia began in Southeast Asia and spread north and west concluded the centuries.
Colonialism - a phenomenon in which one culture expands to engulf another - is an out of date knowledge that has antiquated back to the15th century. In 1493, Spain and Portugal claimed rights to the Western Hemisphere and Western Africa. The English and French then followed, vying for other territories and started colonizing globally. Colonialism in Asia began sorrounding 1500, starting with Southeast Asia and spread nailed down the universe, with its heighth during the19th century.
Indian Art
During the British colonization of India, modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, traditional styles and crafts were eschewed in favour of reproducing Western Craft. The English formalized Craft education and replaced the tradition of apprenticeship in the homeland. Formal Craft academies were established in extensive Indian cities where the limited adolescence - normally the children the craftsmen - were taught Western arts, usually in favour of traditional resident crafts.
Southeast Asia
Now Craft in Southeast Asia regularly blends modernism with traditional styles, generally expressing resident and personal issues using international styles.
Korea
Unlike still of Asia, Korean colonizers were bounteous proximate.Similarly, the Southeast Asian countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia that were colonized by the French, especially produced Craft that imitated that of the colonizers during the19th and early 20th centuries. After gaining independence in the mid-20th century, on the contrary, Southeast Asia adage a revival of native and traditional crafts. Western Craft remained as well unpopular in the region until the '80s and '90s, when resident artists began to cast to modernism and postmodernism for inspiration.The Japanese occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945, which at times was brutal on regional culture. Even of traditional culture that included pottery, ceramics and other handicrafts was seen as an obstacle toward the modernization demanded by the Japanese. After the problem a number of institutions were established to elevate indigenous art using woodwork and mother of pearl, but the proliferation of artists employing such skills were very limited. Contemporary Korean artists often work in modern traditions of the West and Japan.
China
While Western countries vied for Chinese territories, actual colonization was limited to British influence in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Subsequently the Chinese, while influenced by Western art through missionaries and tradespeople, local crafts were never forcefully replaced by colonizing forces. Traditional arts and crafts like jade carving, carved lacquerware, among others, have flourished through the centuries.
