Even the "Chinese art" which been fashionable in Europe for over a century was defined in Diderot's Encyclopedie as: "a mass of confused decoration with no apparent rhyme or reason."
連風靡歐洲百年以上的「中國藝術」，也在法國百科全書中被定義為：「一團亂七八糟的裝飾、互不相關、全無道理可言」。