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The author examined in this article that Russian avant-garde painters of 20th century sought in Oriental art an alternative to Western art. The Russia had sandwiched between the Orient and the West in historical and geographical aspect. and so traditional public culture of Russia is already Oriental and Western thing in parallel. Russian avant-garde artists thought East art as equal weight with Russian art, payed attention to Rubok and stone statue, usual things of farmers, a toy, signboard of streets, and regarded them as an alternative to Western art. They got inspired by these popular culture. These groped not for private nuance but for something eternal and true that is point of eastern art. These thought that they can create art that is true uniquely by joining in popular arts, and confrontation of purity art, confrontation of the Orient and the West was canceled in process of creation of new art language.