Monday

• The Art of China P.P.

• Q & A’s over Non-Western Project

• Essays and Printed Outlines All due Wednesday.

• Presentations Wednesday & Thursday

• Unit 3 Exam Friday

Art of China

Formal, Content, or Contextual Analysis.

• Partner up!

• Each group will take notes over 1 artwork, and present it to the class. Write notes on dry erase boards. (BIG!)

• What’s the content?

• What’s its context?

1. Guangng Animal Form

2. Imperial Terracotta soldiers

3. Dai Funeral Banner

4. Lady Fend and the bear

5. Buddha of the Longmen Caves

6. Travelers among the mountains and streams

7. Foguang Si Pagoda

8. Chopping Bamboo

Shang Dynasty1500-1050 BCE

• 1st great Chinese dynasty of the Bronze Age

• Ruled from a series of capitals in the Yellow River Valley– (yellow river: transports yellow soil every year,

gave birth to Xin, Yin dynasties

Daoism• Philosophy and religion

• The Dao (“the way”) described as an unchanging principle from which all things come to be.

• Asks for humans to return to nature; take refuge in the natural world. (ONESNESS With NATURE)

• (contributes to science, medicine, martial arts and literature)

• Stresses individual expression and striving to find balance in one’s life.

• Ying & Yang are Daoists symbols

Confucianism• 551-479 BCE

• Emphasizes morality, loyalty, generosity, and humanity.

• An ethical system based on 5 constant relationships (ex: father & son, ruler & subject, husband & wife)

• An important ingredient is respect for traditional values.

• (Key role in solidifying court behavior)

Gong of animal forms (Anyang,

China), 12th or 11th century BCE,

bronze

Shang dynasty/ gong (guang)/ zoomorphic/ symmetrical/

casting vs. firing/ varied animal

motifs/ Chinese attitude toward

nature

Bi (disk) (late Zhou

dynasty), 3rd to 4th century,

nephrite

Bi disk- ceremonial,

found in tombs, round

center, symbolizing

heaven, use of jade to

suggest rank and status/

Chinese dragons good

luck

Similarities

• Share the idea that anyone can cultivate wisdom or ability , regardless of birth

Tomb of Qin Shin Huangdi

• 1st emperor of China

• Subterranean army was born

• Individualized

• Terracotta

• Statues with armor

• Life size

• Army to protect in emperor

Soldiers of the Imperial Bodyguard, tomb of the Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi (Shaanxi, China)

c. 210 BCE, painted terracotta

6,000 life-size terracotta soldiers used to convey power and authority/ Daoism seen in the

individuality of the sculptures/ guardians in the next world

weapons of war

The Great Wall

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsUE-ZtcUFg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Funeral banner from the Tomb of Dai

(Western Han dynasty), c. 168 BCE, painted silk

Han dynasty/ realms of heaven and earth

reappearance of a “bi”

the raven and the toad/ the Silk Road

Attributed to Gu Kaizhi. Lady Feng and the Bear, detail of Admonitions of the Instructress… (Period

of Disunity), late fourth century CE

Gu Zaizhi/ Period of Disunity/ the Chinese handsroll/ absence of a setting/ Xie He’s Six Laws

Xie He’s 6 Canons

• Sense of movement through spirit consonance

• Use of brush with the bone method

• Respond to things, depict their forms

• According to kind, describe appearance with color

• Dividing planning, positions in, and arranging

Tang dynasty/ arrival of Buddhism in China/

suppressed surface

detail in the interest of

monumental simplicity

Fan Kuan. Travelers among Mountains and Streams

(Northern Song dynasty), early eleventh century, hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

Fan Kuan/ Northern Song Dynasty/ Daoism/ painting on silk/ “li” and “qi”/ humans in the vast scale of nature/ a shifting perspective/ use of

mist to separate the background from the

foreground/ Neo-Confucianism

Guo Xi. Early Spring, 1000-1090 CE, ink on

silk

Guo Xi/ Daoist paradise and an interest in

seasonal change/ three types of distance (high,

deep, and level)/ inclusion of seals and

inscriptions on paintings/ focus on intricate details and

the character of each line

Foguang Si Pagoda (Liao dynasty)(Yingxian, China), 1056

the pagoda / projecting eaves and cantilevered balconies/ the axis mundi

Right: Great Wild Goose pagoda (Tang dynasty), c. 652-704 CE

Ma Yuan. Bare Willows and

Distant Mountains (Southern Song

dynasty), thirteenth century

CE, album leaf, ink and colors on

silk

Ma Yuan/ Southern Song

court style/ composed on a

diagonal to form the Mia/Xia style

Liang Kai. The Sixth Chan Patriarch Chopping Bamboo, thirteenth century, hanging

scroll

Liang Kai/ Chan Buddhism/ the “Chan moment”/ use of the “spontaneous” stroke

Hall of Supreme Harmony, Forbidden City (Beijing), Ming and Qing dynasties