Download - The Art of Asia

The Art of Asia

Goal: I can compare and Contrast the art styles of India,

China, and Japan.

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India

• The Flag

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India

• Location

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India

• India’s art is strongly influenced by religion

India

• India’s art is strongly influenced by religion– Hinduism– Buddhism

India

• India’s art is strongly influenced by religion– Hinduism– Buddhism

• Architechture, statues, and ceremonial beliefs were centered on religious principles

India

• Stupas– Beehive-shaped domed places of worship

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India

• Siva/Shiva– Hindu god– The Destroyer

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Mudras

• Ancient symolic hand gestures that are regarded as physical expressions of different states of being

• Used in meditation and artwork

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India

• Henna– A dye found from shrubs used on skin and hair– Used for painting designs on hands and arms for

weddings

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Work on your henna designs. They need to be gone over with a color pencil or marker (choose between black, red, blue only)

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Bellringer: At the top of your China/Japan review, determine which artwork is from China and which is from Japan.

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China

• Art was centered around Buddhism, stressing harmony of humans with nature

• Artists used meditation to focus and PERCEIVE the beauty of nature before doing artwork.

China

• Calligraphy originated in China– Definition: beautiful writing– Done with brush and ink using sweeping motions

to make lines thick and thin in areas

China• Ink and Brush Painting– Paintings that use black ink—the same as used in

East Asian calligraphy– most prestigious form of Chinese art

China

• Scrolls

China• Kaolin Pottery (Porcelain)

Japan

• Japanese art is so similar to Chinese, because Buddhism was brought to Japan through Buddhist missionaries from China.

• They learned new styles of art from surrounding Asian countries, but eventually took those characteristics and made their own unique style.

Japan

• Pagoda– A tower several stories high with roofs curving

slightly upward at the edges

Japan

• Liurong Temple– Japan’s most famous Pagoda

Japan

• Yamato-e– “pictures in the Japanese manner”

Japan

• Ukiyo-e– “pictures of the floating world”– a Japanese art movement that flourished from

the 17th to the 19th century and producedpaintings and prints depicting the everyday

lifeand interests of the common people

Japan

• Printmaking - a process in which the artist repeatedly transfers an original image from one prepared surface to another

• Choose one of the artworks from the book (327-330)

• -Is this artwork characteristic of China, Japan, or both?

• -Are there certain features to show that it is from that specific country? If so, what?

• -Describe this artwork (What are the characteristics? How are the elements of art portrayed in this?)