The definition of Orientalism is how the western side of the world sees the eastern cultures. This also means that this is the Westerners point of view of what the eastern culture would look like such as that the Westerners can create a false image of what they want to see instead of what is actually happening. For example when you see a poster of holiday in india and you'll see elephants and people greeting you and lots of colours nice buildings and everything clean but in reality it it might be very very different.
In art there is a terminology for this called pastiche, where the artists chooses to take on another art style from another artist. For example in the picture everything comes across as Indian or of indian culture but in reality the patterns on the wall from Europe and Asia sculptures from India tiles from North Africa and an Islamic dress.
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