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Arts Appreciation (Lesson 11. Arts in Asia) Ppt.

The document discusses the history and development of art in Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist cultures from 653 BC to 1900 AD. It covers the spread of Buddhism, the Silk Road, and various artistic periods and influences in each culture including Mughal, Rajput, and contemporary art movements. Key artistic mediums and styles are addressed for each place.

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Arts Appreciation (Lesson 11. Arts in Asia) Ppt.

The document discusses the history and development of art in Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist cultures from 653 BC to 1900 AD. It covers the spread of Buddhism, the Silk Road, and various artistic periods and influences in each culture including Mughal, Rajput, and contemporary art movements. Key artistic mediums and styles are addressed for each place.

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Indian, Chinese &

Japanese
653 B.C. – A.D. 1900
Major Points
Birth of Buddha

Silk Road opens

Buddhism spreads to China and Japan

Art is serene, and meditative


Indian Art
3rd millennium BC – Modern
Times

4 Periods (Ancient period, Islamic


ascendancy, Colonial period,
Independence and postcolonial)

Ornate, sensuous, refined, strong


sense of design, colorful, vibrant
and tells a story

Intertwines with cultural


history, religions, and
Fresco from Ajanta, c.
philosophies 450-500
Past Art
Ajanta & Ellora frescoes and
rock cuts 2 BC – 600 B
Mughal
Influence
Descendants of Genghis
Khan, Muslim

Ruled over Indian


subcontinent (southern
Asia)

Mughal minitures, book


illustrations or small
album works

Architecture & Marble

http://www.economist.co
m/blogs/prospero/2011/11
/singh-twins
Taj
Mahal
Seven Wonders of
the World

Mausoleum:
building
constructed as a
monument
enclosing the
burial chamber of
a deceased
person or persons

Completed in
1653
Rajputana
Mostly men painters
Focus on nature & harmony
Many miniatures, BRIGHT
where as Mughals were dull.
Lord Krishna, Hindu deity
popular subject
Rajputana people endured
much to stay in existence (as
well as Hinduism) through the
times of Muhammed and the
British takeover as many of
them gave up art due to lack
of understanding on the part
of the British.
Modern Indian Art
Focus on ancient culture

M F Hussein, Picasso of
India

Museums emerged late


60’s

Indian art in high demand


worldwide and sold for
high prices, encouraged
by government
Chinese Art

Successfully mastered ALL forms of


art

Ancient art included cave


paintings, pottery, jade
artifacts, bronze casting (Bronze
Age) and calligraphy
Chinese Art Continued
After the Iron Age
pottery and
porcelain were
focus, Terra Cotta
Army

With the invention


of paper over a
dozen dynasties
(time of rule by a
particular family
which ruled during
that period)

Within these
Chinese
Painting
Strong tradition of
painting, calligraphy,
and printmaking
Spring Morning in the Han Palace, Ming
Dynasty
Concentrated in water
based techniques

More stylized &


abstract

Importance of white
space and favors
landscapes Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, Northern
Contemporary Chinese Art
After communists took over in 1949 art was
labeled reactionary (politically driven) further
accelerated by Cultural Revolution (Social-
political movement whose goal was to enforce
communism)

Chinese “avant-garde” works produced after


CR, includes
painting, sculpture, film, ceramics, video, photogr
aphy, installation and performance.

In the 2008 World’s Top contemporary


artists, The People’s Republic of China holds it’s
5th, 6th, 7th and 9th places.
Zhang Zeng Fanzhi Yue Minjun
Xiaogang

Wang
Guangyi
Japanese Art
Wide range of art styles & media including
ancient pottery, sculpture in wood & bronze, ink
painting on silk and paper and recently manga &
cartooning. Painting is the preferred method of
the Japanese.

Write with a brush rather than a pen

Japanese ceramics are the finest in the world


and the earliest known artifacts of their culture.

Heavy use of natural materials for architecture


and a relationship between interior and exterior
spaces
Ukiyo-e

“Floating world”
Japanese woodblock prints The Great Wave off
Kanagawa (神奈川
Landscapes, historical tales, & theatre 沖浪裏
Kanagawa- oki
Main artistic genre in Japan
nami-ura?)
Hokusai
original print by
Rose in the Edo cultural second half of the 17 th

century
Mass producable
Influence of
Buddha

Starts in 6th & 7th centuries


Home of the earliest Pagoda and Kondō at Hōryū-ji, 8th
Buddhists structures century

Statues and icons


brought
to Japan by
Koreans
Temples
Enku, Buddhist monk
Contemporary Art

Taikan Yokoyama Kiyoteru Kuroda


History of Manga

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