Exam 4 Japanese Art Flashcards
Jomon Vessels
Japan
c. 2500 BC
Earthenware
Key Aesthetic Qualities of Japanese Art
- Asymmetry
- Organic
- Respect for the inherent nature of materials
Haniwa figure of a warrior
300-710 CE
Terracotta
Bodhisattva in Pensive Pose, probably Maitreya
Korea, Silla kingdom
late 6th–early 7th century
Gilt bronze
Aerial View of Ise showing the two sectors
(first built in 600 CE)
Main Sanctuary Inner Shrine, Ise, last rebuilt 2013
Buddhist compound, Horyu-ji, Nara
7th century and later
Pagoda and Kondo
Welcoming Approach of the Amida Buddha
13th century
Gold and color on indigo-dyed silk
“Namu Amida Butsu” HAIL TO AMIDA BUDDHA
Kyoto, Ho-o-do (Phoenix Hall)
c. 1053
Amida Buddha in the Phoenix Hall
carved by Jocho
c. 1053
The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment
1635–45
by Kano Tan’yu (Japanese, 1602–1674)
Ink on paper
The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment
“Zen” = Meditation
Enlightenment is achieved through the profound realization that one is already an enlightened being.
This realization can happen in a flash of insight.
It is the result of one’s own efforts. Deities, chants, Scriptures are only of limited assistance.
Simplicity
Natural World
Sense of rusticity, melancholy, and age
Dry Landscape Garden at Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto
c. 1488-99
Groupings
- Asymmetry
- Balance
- Rhythm
- Harmony
Sen no Riku (attributed to) Interior of the Tai-an Tea House, Kyoto
c. 1582
Tea bowl, ca. 1575
Japan
Rough clay covered with a dull black glaze
Wabi and Sabi
Tea Ceremony
Wabi (humility, honesty, integrity)
Sabi (preference for stillness and the old and rustic over the new)
Father Joao Rodriques (1562-1633): Tea ceremony was meant to “to produce courtesy, politeness, modesty, moderation, calmness, peace of body and soul, without pride or arrogance, fleeing from all ostentation, pomp, external grandeur and magnificence.”
Tea House built according to designs of Rikyū and the dictates of wabi
Ando Hiroshige
Ohashi Bridge in the Rain
1857.
Full-color woodblock print
Gemji Monogatari a.k.a. Eiribon Genji Monogatari [Tale of Genji]
(1654) Woodblock print.
Utamaro Woman Holding a Fan
1793
Full-color woodblock print
Hiroshige
Evening Snow at Kanbara
1834
Full-color Woodblock print
Hokusai
The Great Wave of Kanagawa
c. 1823-39.
Full color woodblock print
Woodblocks
REQUIRES
- Designer
- Engraver
- Printer
- Publisher
- A woodblock print image is first designed by the artist on paper and then transferred to a thin, partly transparent paper.
- Following the lines on the paper, now pasted to a wooden block usually of cherry wood, the carver chisels and cuts to create the original in negative—with the lines and areas to be colored raised in relief.
- Ink is applied to the surface of the woodblock.
- Rubbing a round pad over the back of a piece of paper laid over the top of the inked board makes a print.
Polychrome Prints
Polychrome Prints
- Water-based ink
- Each color has a separate block, which could number up to 20.
- Cut marks in the block are used to align each block on the paper.
- Paper made from the mulberry tree was favored as it was strong enough to stand up to multiple printings.
- Finish made of fine glue sprinkled with mica dust
