art of china and japan. art of china chinese civilization retain many of its ancient traditions...
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Art
Of China and Japan
Art Of China
• Chinese Civilization retain many of its ancient traditions today.
• Beginning 4,000 years ago, iti s the oldest continuous culture in the history of the world
Art Historical Characteristics:
The Chinese invented paper, porcelain and woodblock printing.
Chinese artists captured the beauty of nature in paintings- fans, books, scrolls or paper or silk.
The Chinese also produced sculpture and ceramic objects from terracotta/stoneware/porcelain for religious purposes and to honor the dead.
Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi
Shaanxi Province, China
210 B.C.E.painted terracotta
Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi
Shaanxi Province, China
210 B.C.E.painted terracotta
Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi
Shaanxi Province, China
210 B.C.E.painted terracotta
Fan Kuan
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
early 11th centuryhanging scroll, ink, and colors on silk6 ft. 7 1/4 in. x 3 ft. 4 1/4 in.
Foguang Si Pagoda
Yingxian, China
1056 C.E.
Zhou Jichang
Arhats Giving Alms to Beggars
1178 C.E.ink and colors on silk44 x 21 in.
Meiping vase
960-1127 C.E.Stoneware, Cizhou type with sgraffito decoration
Jar, Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period (1426–1435)ChinaPorcelain painted in underglaze blue; H. 19 in.
Japanese Art
• Buddhism spread to Japan from China• Intricate Buddhist temples built from wood.
They used wood because the islands were made of volcanic rock and they could not use this stone to build their temples.
• The Japanese also created monumental bronze sculptures of Buddha.
• Beginning in the 8th c., artists developed uniquely Japanese screen and woodblock prints. Woodblock printing is making prints by carving images in blocks of wood.
Great Buddha. 1252. Bronze. (Height 35’) Kamakura, Japan.
Haniwa warrior figure
from Gunma Prefecture, Japan
5th to 6th century C.E.low-fired clay49 1/4 in. high
Ise Shrine
Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan
originally 5th century C.E.rebuilt 1973
Phoenix Hall
Byodoin, Uji, Japan
1053 C.E.
Japan, Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), 1397 – It is literally covered in Gold Leaf
Flying StorehouseThe Legends of Mount Shigi
Chogosonshiji, Nara
late 12th centuryhandscroll ink and color on paper1 1/2 ft. high
Tōshūsai Sharaku, famous Japanese print artist, known for his portraits of kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers
Otani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei, 1794
The Actors Ichikawa Tomiemon (R) and Sanogawa Ichimatsu III (L) as Kanisaka Toda and
Onayo, c. 1795
Detail of Burning of the Sanjo Palace
13th century C.E.
handscroll, ink and colors on paper16 1/4 in. high
Kano Motonobu
Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom
Muramachi Period, ca. 1513hanging scroll, ink and color on paper5 ft. 7 3/8 in. x 2 ft. 10 3/4 in.
Hasegawa Tohaku
Pine Forest
Monoyama Period, late 16th C.one of a pair of six-panel screensink on paper5 ft. 1 3/8 in. x 11 ft. 4 in.
Katsushika Hokusai
was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese
painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo),
Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of
Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series
Edo Period, ca. 1826-33, woodblock print oban, ink and colors on paper9 7/8 in. x 1 ft. 2 3/4 in.
Hokusai's most famous work, and one of the best recognized works of Japanese art in the world is the one below. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture of Kanagawa. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is, as the picture's title notes, more likely to be a large okinami ("wave of the open sea"). As in all the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background.