A Chronology of 20th Century Ethiopian Art 1920 Imported art pigment and materials replace traditional materials. Oil painting techniques are employed, and paintings are produced largely for the tourist market.   1920 1920-1930: Easel paintings of religious as well as genre subject-matter start appearing in private homes, coffeehouses and Teje Bet. Production of paintings become systematic and organized.   1925 The Weekly Berhanena Selam newspaper writes about modernization ""Seletane,"" and defines it as the European Way, or Western Means. In visual arts, three-dimensional representations produced by ""Seltune"" modern artists as opposed to the two- dimensional representation by the old masters of Christian Ethiopian paintings, are considered modern.   1926 1926-1935: Artists Tessema Eshete, Agegnehu Engeda, Abebe Wolde Giorgis, Zerihun Dominiko, and Tadege Defersa return from extended study in Europe. They become known for their teaching, their technical mastery, and their adoption of the principles of western art.