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Spirals play a very favorite role as motives for modern European paintings. Here we assemble some examples for quiescent spirals (Klimt), spirals starting to move (Itten and Klee) and storming spirals (da Vinci, van Gogh, and Turner). There are also circles or curved lines which look like spirals, but are not. In parallel to the European culture, a lot of spiral patterns appear in Japan, as well: for example the famous Ukiyo-e of the Naruto whirlpools, patterns for Kimonos and toys. In our daily life spiral forms are used for practical and/or ornamental reasons: musical instruments, staircases, data storage devices like CD and DVD, and others.
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Ukiyo-e is one of the Japanese arts - woodblock prints produced form the 17th to the 19th century.
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Sanjūsangen-dō (thirty-three ken (unit of length) hall) is a Buddhist temple in Higashiyama District of Kyoto, Japan. It was built in 1164 by Taira no Kiyomori under the order of Emperor Go-Shirakawa. The temple complex was burned out in 1249 and only the main hall was rebuilt in 1266.
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Tsuji, K., Müller, S.C. (2019). The Arts and Beyond. In: Tsuji, K., Müller, S.C. (eds) Spirals and Vortices. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05798-5_3
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