Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger, George Antheil, Leo Ornstein, and Edgard Varèse are among the many notable composers within the first half of the century who have been influenced by futurism. Characteristic options of later 20th-century music with origins in futurism include the prepared piano, integral serialism, extended vocal techniques, graphic notation, improvisation, and minimalism. Impressionism began in France as a reaction, led by Claude Debussy, towards the emotional exuberance and epic themes of German Romanticism exemplified by Wagner. In Debussy’s view, art was a sensuous experience, quite than an mental or moral one. He urged his …

Notable collections embody the well-preserved 9th-century statues of Hindu deities taken from Banon Temple, which consists of Ganesha, Vishnu, Shiva, and Agastya. Several statues of Durga Mahisasuramardini found in Java, the Tarumanagaran Vishnu statue of Cibuaya, the Srivijayan Avalokiteshvara statue of Bingin Jungut, the Avalokiteshvara head of Aceh, the head statues from Bima temple of Dieng. Some Buddhist statues from Singhasari period also displayed right here, such because the statues of Buddhist deities from Jago Temple near Malang, East Java. The massive open air atrium courtyard within the heart surrounded by peristyle gallery displaying numbers of large statues corresponding to …