MAPEH Arts of East Asia

Calligraphy

Is the art of beautiful handwriting in Chinese culture.

Painting

Art form closely related to Chinese calligraphy.

Brush Techniques

Methods used in calligraphy and painting with ink.

Black or Colored Ink

Medium used in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.

Jiaguwen

Ancient Chinese shell-and-bone script from logographs.

Logographs

Ancient writing symbols used in Chinese scripts.

Cangjie

inventor of Chinese writing.

By observing the footprints of birds and animals and natural Phenomena

Inspiration for Cangjie's writing from nature observations.

Ancient Writing Materials

Shoulder bones and tortoise shells used for inscriptions.

Chinese Characters

Symbols representing words in the Chinese writing system.

Cultural Significance

Calligraphy and painting reflect Chinese artistic heritage.

Roof guards

Figures found in the tip of the roof

Straight Inclined

Multi-Inclined

Straight Inclined

More economical for common Chinese architecture

Multi-inclined

Roofs with two or more sections of incline. These roofs are used for residences of wealthy chinese

Sweeping

has curves that rise at the corners of the roof.

Woodblock printing

is a technique for printing text

Japanese Ukiyo-e

The best known and most popular style of Japanese art. Which is japanese for "pictures of the floating world" and it is related to the style of woodblock print making that shows scenes of harmony and carefree everyday living.

Performers of Kabuki in Japan and Peking Opera in China

Use their faces as the canvas for painting while mask painting is done in Korea

Peking opera face-painting or Jingja Lianpu

Is done with different colors in accordance with the performing characters' personality and historical assessment

Simple colors

normally painted in Hero type characters

Complicated designs

enemies

Lianpu

is called the False mask

Chinese Opera

It is a traditional special way of make-up in pursuit of the expected effect of the performance

Guan Ju

Red indicates devotion

Huang Pang

Yellow signifies fierceness

Zhu Wen

A green face tells the audience that the character is not only impulsive and violent

Zhang Fei

Black symbolizes roughness and fierceness. The black face indicates either a rough and bold character or an impartial and selfless personality.

Lian Po

Purple stands for uprightness and cool-headedness. While a reddish purple face indicates a just and noble character.

Cao Cao

White suggests treachery

Kabuki make-up of Japan

Kabuki makeup or Kesho is already in itself an interpretation of the actor's own role through the medium of the features. On stage

Kabuki Makeup is also another way of face painting which has two types

standard makeup and kumadori makeup

Standard makeup

Applied to most actors.

Kumadori makeup

applied to villains and heroes

it is composed of very dramatic lines and shapes using colors that represent certain qualities.

dark red = passion or anger
dark blue = depression or sadness
pink = youth
light green = calm
black = fear
purple = nobility

Mukimi-guma or Suji-guma

where the lines are painted onto an actor's face.
These are then smudged to soften them

Kumadori

The Painted Faces or Japanese Kabuki Theatre.

KOREAN MASK (tal or t'al)

originated with religious meaning just like the masks of other countries which also have religious or artistic origins. Korea has a rich history of masks.

Black

Red and White

Half Red and Half White mask

symbolize the idea that the wearer has two fathers

Dark-faced mask

Indicates that the character was born of an adulterous mother

Paper

was first invented by Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. It is indeed one of the greatest contributions of ancient China in the development of arts.

FOLK ARTS OF CHINA

1.PAPER CUT
2.CHINESE KNOTS
3.PAPER FOLDING
4.PAPER KİTES

The earliest document showing paper folding

is a picture of a small paper boat in an edition of Tractatus de Sphaera Mundi from 1490 by Johannes de Sacrobosco.

Traditional funeral burning yuanbao

which is a folded paper that look like gold nuggets or ingots called Sycee. This is also used for other ceremonial practices. This kind of burning is commonly done at their ancestors' graves during the Ghost Festival.

Sycee

is a type of silver or gol ingot currency used in China until the 20th century. The name is derived
from the Cantonese words meaning "fine silk."

Imitation gold sycees

are used as a symbol of prosperity by Chinese and are frequently displayed during the Chinese New Year.

Origami

The term came from "ori" meaning "folding"

Ori

"folding"

Kami

"paper"

Origami Butterflies

were used during the celebration of Shinto weddings to represent the bride and groom

The earliest use of paper

was made as a pattern for lacquers

Decorative Chinese paper cuttings

usually symmetrical in design when unfolded and adapt the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac as themes and motifs and mostly choose
the red color.

are the common models
used in The best known Japanese Origami.

Flowers

Paper crane

The best known Japanese Origami.
Japanese origami is

Chinese Buddhists believe tha! hanging "Window Flowers" or decorative paper cuttings

like pagodas and other symbols of Good Luck

Jianzhi

is the first type of paper cutting design

Chuang hua

means Window Flower

Kite

is an assembled or joined aircraft that was traditionally made of silk or paper with a bowline and a resilient bamboo. Today

Joseph Needham

According to ____

1. Centipede
2. Hard-Winged Kites
3. Soft-Winged Kites
4. Flat Kites

Chinese kites may differentiated into four main categories:

KNOT TYING

in Korea

Zhongguo

is the Chinese decorat Li handicraft art that began as a form of
Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) in China

Hanamusubi

knot tying is called ___.
it emphasizes on braids and focuses on individual knots in japan

subjects

themes

Landscape painting

Regarded as the highest form of Chinese painting

Heaven

Humankind

Two important features in Korean landscape painting

mountains and water

Cai lun

He invented the paper in the 1st Century AD

Chinese painting

The primary influence of Korean Paintings

108 C.E

The history of Korean painting dates to

CHINA Paintings subjects or themes

1. Flowers and birds
2. Landscapes
3. Palaces and Temples
4. Human Figures
5. Animals
6. Bamboos and Stones

JAPAN
Paintings subjects or themes

1. Scenes from everyday life
2. Narrative scenes crowded with figures and details

KOREA
Paintings subjects or themes

1. landscape paintings
2. Minhwa
3. Four Gracious Plants (plum blossoms