Of the two most important non-western influences on 19th and 20th century art, Asian and African, Asian sensibilities were furthest removed from the European experience and values. Neo-Classical art was a revival of the expansive gaiety, luxurious frivolity and rich decorative quality typically seen in Rococo art. When Native American artists have incorporated designs from one another their traditions have survived, but when they incorporate Western European motifs and ideas their traditions are inexorably lost. Cubism was an angry rejection of previous conventions and promoted no positive formal concepts of its own. Despite the absence of real opportunity, there were women artists of consequence early in the 17th century.
Complementary colors are opposite one another on the color wheel.
Because of the strength of the Christian faith and the economic and political domination of the Roman Catholic Church during the 15th and 16th centuries, Greek and Roman mythological subject matter does not appear until the Baroque in the 17th century. Mexican muralist of the 20 century saw their social responsibility in creating an artistic style of stability and domestic tranquility in order to encourage the emerging middle class. Expressionistic and symbolic tendencies in 20th century art can be traced back to Cezanne. Duccio's compositions relied essentially on ideas inherited from Byzantine traditions. Although he added a more naturalistic figure he contiued to use a space conceived of as a sum of its occupying objects.