Week 12: Art of Early Modern Korea and Japan

Question 1

Moon Jar (Medium, Date)

Answer 1

Medium: glazed white porcelain
date: 18th century, Joseon Dynasty

Question 2

Auspicious

Answer 2

Objects that promise success and prosperity

Question 3

Porcelain

Answer 3

Smooth, almost translucent in its purest form. A type of ceramic made from a clay called kaolin.
Fired at very high temperatures. This distinguishes it from other kinds of clay.

Question 4

Chaekgeori

Answer 4

A Korean word for book things

Question 5

Buncheong

Answer 5

A traditional form of Korean stoneware, with a blue-green tone

Question 6

Woodblock

Answer 6

A printing technique. It generates text, and importantly multicolor images.
Cheap and fast to produce, so they were in high demand.
Used in ukiyo-e genre in Japan during the Edo period.

Question 7

Books and scholars Accouterments
(Author, Date, Medium)

Answer 7

Author: Yi Taek-gyun

Date: Joseon dynasty, late 1800s

Medium: Ten-panel folding screen, ink and color on silk

Question 8

Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Edo period
(Author, Date, Medium)

Answer 8

Author: Katsushika Hokusai
Date: 1830–32
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Question 9

Edo; present-day Tokyo
About this period:
Years:

Answer 9

1615-1868 the shoguns were instigating the cutoff of Japan from the rest of the world.
Edo was the biggest city in the world. Lower class slowly rose through the ranks in the mid 18th century.
Painting however or folding screens were still beyond the financial means of residents of Edo.

Question 10

Ukiyo

Answer 10

the floating world. Desire for entertainment. Theater shows, etc.

Question 11

Ukiyo-e

Answer 11

the pictures of the floating world.
The floating world stems from Buddhism is worldly things here that are temporarily in the Edo period it describes entertainment culture

Question 12

Prussian Blue

Answer 12

A color! This was seen in the 36 views of Mount Fuji
The Prussian blue was a very vivid saturated blue, so it had a more tonal range. It made the prints exotic. The artist became a master of mixing and shading different blues.

Question 13

linear perspective

Answer 13

seen as a European technique in art.
It’s a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines in an art piece using this system converge in a single vanishing point.

Question 14

Illusionism

Answer 14

the principle or technique by which artistic representations are made to resemble real objects or to give an appearance of space by the use of perspective.

Question 15

Trompe l’oeil

Answer 15

French meaning to “deceive the eye”
The highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface.
A painting that tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real.

Question 16

Late Joseon Dynasty
(years, location, about)

Answer 16

Commerce and industry entered a period of rapid development. Many children could receive education at private schools in their local neighborhood.
With these improvements in the quality of life of the people, they began to enjoy diverse entertainments.
Artistic innovations like “true-view landscape painting”, and genre paintings.
Years: 1592-1910