East Asian Art - 2nd Grading PDF
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This document discusses painting styles and subjects in China, Japan, and Korea. It covers themes such as landscapes, flowers, and birds, and explores important aspects of landscape painting and the three concepts of nature, heaven, and humankind, including Yin and Yang.
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# East Asian Art - 2nd Grading ## Painting in China, Japan and Korea - In East Asia, the objects or items that are usually put into paintings are called **subjects, themes, or motifs**. - These may be about **animals, people, landscapes, and anything about the environment**. - He used red ocher an...
# East Asian Art - 2nd Grading ## Painting in China, Japan and Korea - In East Asia, the objects or items that are usually put into paintings are called **subjects, themes, or motifs**. - These may be about **animals, people, landscapes, and anything about the environment**. - He used red ocher and black pigment. - Early paintings often showed **hunting scenes of man chasing various animals such as horses, rhinoceros, lions, and buffaloes.** - These prehistoric paintings were **drawn on the walls of caves, blocks of stone, and found all over the world, including China.** ## Painting Subjects or Themes in East Asian Countries: ### China - Flowers and birds - Landscapes - Palaces and Temples - Human Figures - Animals - Bamboos and Stones ### Japan - Scenes from everyday life. - Narrative scenes crowded with figures and details. ### South and North Korea - Landscape paintings - **Minhwa** (the traditional folk painting) - Four Gracious Plants (plum blossoms, orchids or wild orchids, chrysanthemums) - Bamboo - Portraits ## Important Aspects in East Asian Painting ### Landscape Painting - Regarded as the highest form of Chinese painting. - Oriental artists often created landscapes rather than paintings with the human figure as subjects. - **Silk** was often used as the medium to paint upon, but it was quite expensive. - When the Han court eunuch, Cai lun, invented the paper in the 1st century AD, it provided not only a cheap and widespread medium for writing but painting became more economical. ### The Three Concepts of East Asian Art - Nature - Heaven - Humankind (**Yinyang**) #### Yin - Dark moon - Recessive/ Nurturing - Damp/ Cool/ Water - Female - Negative Change - Autumn and Winter #### Yang - Light/ Bright/ Sun - Strong/ Assertive - Dry/ Hot/ Fire - Male - Positive Change - Heaven - Spring and Summer ### History of Korean Painting - Dates to 108 C.E., when it first appears as an independent form. - The primary influence of Korean paintings were Chinese paintings. - However, Korean paintings have subjects such as landscapes, facial features, Buddhist topics, and an emphasis on celestial observation in keeping with the rapid development of Korean astronomy. - Mountain and water are important features in Korean landscape paintings because it is a site for building temples and buildings. - Landscape painting represents both a portrayal of nature itself and a codified illustration of the human view of nature and the world..