Asian Arts Flashcards
includes a vast range of influences from
various cultures and religions. Developments in ______________ historically parallel those
in Western art, in general a few centuries earlier. Chinese art, Indian art, Korean
art, Japanese art, each had significant influence on Western art, and vice versa.
Near Eastern art also had a significant influence on Western art. Excluding
prehistoric art, the art of Mesopotamia represents the oldest forms of Asian art.
ASIAN ART
● The oldest continuous art traditions in the world are Chinese art traditions.
● Chinese art in 10,000 B.C.E. included pottery and sculptures.
● Scholars and nobles preserved Chinese artistic traditions, and these were adapted
by each successive dynasty.
● Chinese art encompasses fine arts, folk arts and performance arts.
● Over the centuries, Chinese art produced the following types of arts:
o Paintings
o Calligraphies
o Architecture
o Pottery
o Sculptures
o Bronzes
o Jade carvings
o Other fine or decorative art forms
Chinese Art
● Calligraphy
o Introduced in the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)
o Lady Wei (272-349 CE)
● Painting
● Pottery
● Jade
● Porcelain
● Modern Chinese Art
Ancient Chinese Art
o aims to demonstrate superior control and skill using brush and ink.
o Introduced in the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)
o The Chinese ___________ can be traced back to the Dazhuan (large seal script) That appeared in the Zhou Dynasty.
o Lady Wei (272-349 CE)
Calligraphy
- accomplished calligrapher and said to have taught the great master Wang Xizhi (303-361 CE)
Lady Wei (272-349 CE)
- Walls, coffins and boxes, screens, silk scrolls, fixed fans, book covers, and folding fans were the most popular formats.
- Wood and bamboo were the most popular materials used by the earliest artists, and then adopted plastered walls, silk, and paper.
- Portraits and landscapes were the two most popular themes.
- The painting styles in early cave in China received influence from India and the West.
Chinese painting
o The oldest known pots in the world was from _______________ (Jiangxi province)
o Heavy and functional storage jars
o During the Han dynasty, there were early developments in techniques and kilns
Xianrendong Cave Pottery
The oldest known pots in the world was from
Xianrendong Cave Pottery (Jiangxi province)
o Early ______ was used as an ornament or sacrificial utensils.
o The earliest Chinese _______ object appeared in the Hemudu culture in the early Neolithic period (about 3500–2000 BCE)
o In the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 bce), due to the using of higher hardness engraving tools, ________ were carved more delicately and began to be used as a pendant or ornament in clothing.
o ________ was considered to be immortal and could protect the owner, so ________ objects were often buried with the deceased
jade
o is a kind of ceramics made from kaolin at high temperature.
o The earliest ceramics in China appeared in the Shang Dynasty (c.1600-1046 BCE). And the production of ceramics laid the foundation for the invention of _________.
Porcelain
o After the end of the last feudal dynasty in China, with the rise of the new cultural
movement, Chinese artists began to be influenced by Western art and began to
integrate Western art into Chinese culture.
o At the beginning of the 20th century, oil paintings were introduced to China, and
more and more Chinese painters began to touch Western painting techniques
and combine them with traditional Chinese painting.
Modern Chinese Art
● Chinese art is greatly influenced by Chinese philosophies of Buddhism, Confucianism, and particularly Taoism.
● This aims to show a sense of harmony between humans and the larger world
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consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically, it spans the entire Indian subcontinent, including what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and at times eastern Afghanistan.
Indian Art
It is a form of sandpainting decoration that uses finely ground white powder and colours, and is used commonly outside homes in India.
Rangoli
. East torana of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, 1st century BCE/CE, in Madhya Pradesh, India
Yakshi Bracket Figure
is a carved steatite statuette found during the excavation of the Bronze Age city of Mohenjodaro,
The Priest-King
“Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature (kaavya), music and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.”
Kapila Vatsyayan
This ________, built in the 4th century, features Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi script that states it was created in honor of the Hindu god Vishnu. The pillar showcases India’s prowess in metallurgy, a branch of science that focuses particularly on the properties, production, and purification of metals.
● The Iron Pillar, Delhi
Built in the 13th century, this impressive temple is dedicated to the Hindu sun god Surya. It was carved from stone in the form of a 100-foot-high chariot with immense wheels and horses.
● Konark Sun Temple, Konark, India
● ____________ and architecture is works of art produced in Japan from the beginnings of human habitation there, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present.
● ____________ covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, and a myriad of other types of works of art; from ancient times until the contemporary
21st century
Japanese Art
● Japanese art and architecture is works of art produced in Japan from the
beginnings of human habitation there, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the
present.
● Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient
pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, and a
myriad of other types of works of art; from ancient times until the contemporary
21st century.
● Art in Japan has undergone series of transitions and periodization.
● Japan has transitioned into a cultural mixing pot.
● Based on artifact such as ceramic figures and ornaments.
● It was influenced by Korean and Chinese artwork
● Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient
pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, calligraphy,
ceramics , architecture, oil painting,literature,drama and music.
● Both religious and secular artistics traditions developed, but even the secular art
was imbued with Buddhist and Confuscian aesthetic principles, particularly the
Zen concept that every aspect of the material world is part of an all encompassing
whole.
● The art form rose to great popularity in the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo)
during the second half of the 17th century, originating with the single-color works
of Hishikawa Moronobu in the 1670s.
● Over its long history, Japanese art absorbed many foreign artistics traditions and
carried on intermittent exchanges with china and Korea.
● When Japan came into contact with the western world during the 19th century,
Japanese woodblock prints, paintings and ceramics had a considerable influence
on European art particularly in cubism and impressionism.
● Contemporary Japanese art is concerned with themes such as self-identity and
finding fulfillment in a world dominated by technology.
● Since the 1990s, Japanese animation known as anime, has become widely
popular with young people in the west.
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● Ceramic figures that is made up of clay. That were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects
Haniwa
● The native religion of Japan.
● A practice of religious rites based on the Japanese polytheistic idea of ‘kami’ (deity).
● Collections of native beliefs and mythology.
● Worshipping nature and natural objects ranging from trees, lakes mountains, flowers and rocks.
Shintoism
● Became an integral part of Japanese Culture, Artwork such as images and sculptures of Buddha were produced.
● Buddhist temples are became staples key places.
● Art is essence became an expression of worship for the Japanese people.
Buddhism
● meaning “floating world”, refers to the impetuous young culture that bloomed in the urban centers of Edo (modern-day Tokyo)
● Is an art movement which is flourished in 17th through 19th centuries.
● It’s artist produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as travel scenes and landscapes, female beauties and sumo wrestlers
Ukiyo-e