East Asian Art 1

GRADE 8
QUARTER 2
EAST ASIAN MAP
Country Capital
China (PRC) Beijing
Japan Tokyo
North Korea Pyongyang
South Korea Seoul
Taiwan (ROC) Taipei
Mongolia Ulaan Baatar
PAINTING IN CHINA,
JAPAN and KOREA
In East Asia, the objects or
items that are usually put
into paintings are called
subjects, themes or
motifs. These may be about
animals, people,
landscapes, and anything
about the environment.
PAINTING SUBJECTS OR
THEME
CHINA
1.Flowers and birds
2.Human Figures
3.Landscapes
4. Animals
5. Palaces and Temples
6. Bamboos and Stones
JAPAN
1. Scenes from everyday life
2. Narrative scenes crowded with figures
SOUTH KOREA /NORTH KOREA
Subjects are divided into five
categories:
1. landscape paintings
2. Minhwa (the traditional folk painting)
3. Four Gracious Plants (plum
blossoms, orchids or wild orchids,
chrysanthemums)
4. bamboo
5. portraits
Painting started from pre-historic
man. He used red ochre and black
pigment. Early paintings often
showed hunting scenes of man
chasing various animals, such as:
horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffaloes,
mammoths. These types of
prehistoric paintings were drawn on
the walls of caves, blocks of stones,
etc. Some are found in China.
Important aspects in East Asian
Painting:
 Landscape painting was
regarded as the highest form of
Chinese painting. They also
consider the three concepts of
their arts: Nature, Heaven and
Humankind (Yin-Yang).
 Silk was often used as the
medium to paint upon, but it was
quite expensive. When the Han
court eunuch, Cai Lun, invented
the paper in the 1st Century AD
it provided not only a cheap and
widespread medium for writing
but painting became more
economical.
 The ideologies of
Confucianism, Daoism, and
Buddhism played important
roles in East Asian art.
 Chinese art expresses the
human understanding of the
relationship between nature and
humans. This is evident in the
form of painting of landscapes,
bamboo, birds, and flowers, etc.
This might be called the
metaphysical, Daoist aspect of
Chinese painting
Six Principles of Chinese Painting established by
Xie He, a writer, art historian and critic in 5th
century China.
1. Observe rhythm and
movements .
2. Leave spaces for the eyes to
rest
3. Use brush in calligraphy
4. Use colors correctly
5. Live up to tradition by copying the
master’s artwork.
6. Copy the correct proportion of the objects
and nature.
 The history of Korean
painting dates to 108 C.E.,
when it first appears as an
independent form. It is said
that until the Joseon dynasty
the primary influence of
Korean paintings were
Chinese paintings.
Mountain and Water
are important features
in Korean landscape
painting because it is a
site for building temples
and buildings.
Landscape painting
represents both a portrayal of
nature itself and a codified
illustration of the human view
of nature and the world.
Painting is
closely related
to calligraphy
among the
Chinese
people.
Calligraphy
-is the art of beautiful handwriting.
Traditional painting involves essentially
the same techniques as calligraphy and
is done with a brush dipped in black or
colored ink; oils are not used. In
calligraphy, the popular materials which
paintings are made of paper and silk.
Poets write their calligraphy on their
paintings.
Did you know that
the earliest known
Chinese logographs
(ancient writing
symbols) are
engraved on the
shoulder bones of
large animals and on
tortoise shells?
For this reason, the script found on these
objects is commonly called jiaguwen, or
shell-and-bone script. It was said that
Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese
writing, got his ideas from observing
animals’ footprints and birds’ claw marks
on the sand as well as other natural
phenomena. He then started to work out
simple images from what he conceived as
representing different objects such as
Temples
are the
usual
subjects
in East
Asian
painting.
East Asian temples and houses
have sweeping roofs because
they believe that it will protect
them from the elements of water,
wind and fire. Buddhists believed
that it helped ward off evil spirits
which were deemed to be
straight lines.
The figures at the tips are called roof
guards.
There are three main
types of roofs in traditional
Chinese architecture that
influenced other Asian
architecture:
1. Straight inclined - more
economical for common
Chinese architecture
2. Multi-
inclined -
Roofs with
two or more
sections of
incline. These
roofs are
used for
residences of
wealthy
Chinese.
3. Sweeping – has curves that rise
at the corners of the roof. These are
usually reserved for temples and
palaces
although it
may also be
found in the
homes of the
wealthy.
Woodblock printing is a technique
for printing text, images or patterns
used widely throughout East Asia. It
originated in China as a method of
printing on textiles but eventually
became a method for printing on
paper.
This method was adapted in Japan
during the Edo period (1603-1867)
and became one of their oldest and
most highly developed visual arts.
The most common theme in Japan
for printmaking describes scenes
from everyday life. It narrates the
scene and is often packed with
figures and detail.
Woodblock Printing
Japanese Ukiyo-e
The best known and most popular
style of Japanese art is Ukiyo-e,
which is Japanese for "pictures of
the floating world” and it is
related to the style of woodblock
print making that shows scenes of
harmony and carefree everyday
living.
Ukiyo-e art was
produced in a
diversity of
different media,
including painting
and became an art
domain of the
upper classes and
royalty but later
was also produced
by the common
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