LECTURE 20: KOREA & JAPAN Flashcards
1
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Late Joseon Dynasty
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Korea
1592 - 1910
2
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Edo
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Tokyo
1615 - 1868
3
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Woodblock
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relief painting process where the image is carved out onto wood and raised
areas were inked
cheap
4
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Porcelain
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- Ceramic made out of kaolin
- fired at high temperatures
- used for royal and official purposes
5
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Chaekgeori
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- Yi taek Gyun
- chaek : books geori: things
- type of korean folding screens
- used trompe l’oiel technique
6
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Auspicious
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objects that bring good luck
7
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Trompe l’oeil
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- Trompe means to trick the eye
- to depict objects as if they were real
8
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Linear perspective
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- popular in dutch paintings
- system of representing 3D space on 2D surface
9
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Illusionism
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- creating illusion of something’s prescence when it is absent
- makes materiality of objects more persuasive
10
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Ukiyo
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floating world
11
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ukiyo-e
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- the actual woodblock prints (depicted floating world)
- depicted scenes from life of popular entertainers
12
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Prussian blue
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- synthetic colour that was previously expensive
- great tonal range
- in early 19th century
- available at a lower price from China
13
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Popular Culture
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something that represents a large group of people, not just the elites
14
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Moon Jar
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- Made of glazed white porcelain
- Joseon Dynasty
- 18th Century
- 47cm
- British Museum, London
- Wanki Kim- famous for collecting them
15
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Books and Scholars’ Accoutrements
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- Yi Taek-gyun
- chaekgeori
- Joseon dynasty
- late 1800s
- 10 panel folding screen
- ink and colour on silk
- 1.98 x 3.95m
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
