ARTA WEEK 14 (JAPANESE ART AND KOREAN ART)

Art in Japan

has undergone series of transitions and periodization

cultural mixing pot

Japan has transitioned into a ______?

Japanese Art

Their artworks was influenced by Korean and Chinese artwork

Japanese Art

covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, calligraphy, ceramics ,architecture, oil painting, literature, drama and music

Contemporary Japanese art

s concerned with themes such as self-identity and finding fulfillment in a world dominated by technology

Anime

Since the 1990's it has become widely popular with young people in the west

Haniwa

Ceramic figures that is made up of clay. That were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects

Shintoism

The native religion of Japan.

kami

A practice of religious rites based on the Japanese polytheistic idea of '____' (deity).

Shintoism

A practice of religious rites based on the Japanese polytheistic idea of 'kami' (deity).

Shintoism

Worshipping nature and natural objects ranging from trees, lakesmountains, flowers and rocks

Buddhism

Became an integral part of Japanese Culture

Buddhist temples

became staples key places.

Art is essence

became an expression of worship for the Japanese people.

Ukiyo-e

Is an art movement which is flourished in 17th through 19th centuries. It's artist produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as travel scenes and landscapes, female beauties and sumo wrestlers

The Great Wave of Kanagawa

Nicknamed "The Wave"

The Four details that made the masterpiece "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" famous

The waves, Prussian blue color, Mount Fuji, The boats and the Fisherman

Hiroshige

Known for his horizontal-format landscapes series "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.

Hiroshige

Also known for his vertical-format landscape popular series "One Hundred famous view of Edo

Hiroshige's death

It marked the beginning of the rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre

Sharaku

Was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer

Sharaku

Known for his portraits of kabuki actors

Over 140

How many prints have been established as the works of Sharaku

Sharaku

The majority are portraits of actors or scenes from kabuki and the rest are the sumo wrestlers

Nishiki-e

Is a type of Japanese multi-colored woodblock printing

Nishiki-e

The Technique is used primarily in Ukiyo-e. It was invented in 1760s

Suzuki Harunobu

Developed the technique of polychrome printing to produce nishiki-e

Kaiga

Also known as Japanese Painting

Kaiga

Is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese art.

Kaiga

Panel form the Tale of Genji

Jomon people

The first settlers of Japan

Jomon Period Pottery

Named for the cord markings that decorated the surfaces of their clay vessels were nomadic hunter-gatherers

Jomon Period Pottery

Statuette with Snow Glasses

Yayoi Art

Use for Rituals

Yayoi Art

Bringing knowledge of wetland rice cultivation, the manufacture of copper weapons and bronze bells (dōtaku)

second and third century

The oldest dotaku found date from?

Kofun Art

Represents a modification of Yayoi culture.

haniwa

Typical artifacts are bronze mirrors, symbol of political alliances called ______?

Kofun Art

Typical artifacts are bronze mirrors, symbol of political alliances called haniwa

Kesho

Other term for kabuki makeup

kabuki makeup

is already in itself an interpretation of the actor's own role through the medium of the facial features.

Standard Makeup and Kumadori Makeup

two types of Kabuki Makeup

Standard Makeup

applied to most actors

Kumadori makeup

applied to villains and heroes

kabuki makeup

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

mukimi-guma or suji-guma

Examples of face painting

mukimi-guma or suji-guma

Lines are painted onto an actor's face. These are then smudged to soften them.

ori and kami

Where did the term Origami came from?

Folding

Meaning of Ori

Paper

Meaning of Kami

Origami

Started in the 17th century AD and was popularized internationally in the mid-1900s

common models used in Japanese Origami

Flowers, animals, birds, fish, geometric shapes and dolls

Origami butterflies

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

Paper Crane

The best known Origami

Origami

It was known since the Heian period (794-1185) in Japanese history

Knot Tying

It is also called Hanamusubi

Knot Tying

It emphasize on braids and focuses on individual knots

Ikebana

is the art of arranging flower aesthetically

Bonsai

is the art of cultivating miniature trees

Pine tree

A tree that naturally grows many meters tall

Pine tree

is the most typical plant used for bonsai

To achieve miniaturization

tree is frequently transferred into new pots, and on that occasion its roots are cut a little bit

Bonsai Skills

include the knowledge of when and how much to cut the roots, ho much fertilizer and water is ideal, and which branches should be pruned to give the plant an aesthetic look

Manga

refers to all kinds of cartooning, comics, and animation

Manga

has the stricter meaning of "Japanese comics", in parallel to the usage of "anime" in and outside Japan

ani-manga

is used to describe comics produced from animation cels

Manga and Anime

are an important part of Japanese contemporary art and, much like the avant-garde movements

Modern Manga

took shape in the post-war decades

Korean Arts

include tradition in calligraphy, music, painting, and pottery often marked by the use of natural forms, surface decoration

earliest example of Korean art

consists of stone age works dating from 300BCE

The Gotyeo Dynasty (1918-1392)

was the one of the most prolific periods for the artists in many disciplines, especially in pottery

Melon-shaped wine ewer

This elegant ewer demonstrates the Goryeo potter's technical skill and conceptual sophistication in transforming everyday motifs from nature into a functional and aesthetically pleasing vessel

Neolithic Era

Korean ancient pottery improved during what era with the creation of flat-bottomed vessels decorated with zigzag patterns?

simple V-shape with a pointed or rounded bottom

What is the vessel form found in early comb pottery

Clay

Is often tempered with asbestos or talc stone, and the base of the vessel tends to be flattened

space-filling linear design

yields to more sparsely placed curvilinear designs consisting of dots

Jeulmun Pottery Period

Is named after the decorated pottery vessels that form a large part of the pottery assemblage consistently over the above period, especially 4000-2000 BC

Comb-patterned

What does Jeulmun mean

Bronze Age

In korea, it began around the 15th century BCE

Bronze Age

Everyday use of mumun pottery, ground stone tools, and wooden tools

symbols of authority or as ritual instruments

What does bronze tools symbolizes

Korean- Sword

have served a central place in the defense of the nation for thousands of years

Higher quality ceremonial swords

were typically reserved for the officer corps as a symbol of authority with which to command the troops

Ceremonial swords

are still granted to military officials by the civilian authority to this day.

Geom and Do

Two broad categories of Korean sword

Comma Shape Beads

Are curved, comma-shaped beads that appeared in prehistoric Japan from the Final Jōmon period through the Kofun period, approximately 1000 BCE to the 6th century CE

Magatama

Other term for Comma Shape Beads

4th century BCE

The transition from the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age in Korea begins in what century?

protohistoric

The period that begins after 300 BCE can be described as what?

Iron Age

time when some documentary sources seem to describe societies in the Korean peninsula

GOGURYEO, BAEKJE, SILLA

Three kingdoms of Korea

Goguryeo

also called Goryeo

Goguryeo

was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Manchuria

Goguryeo

controlled most of the Korean peninsula, large parts of Manchuria and parts of eastern Mongolia and Inner Mongolia

Baekje

was founded as a member of the Mahan confederacy

Two

_____ sons of the founder of Goguryeo are recorded to have fled a succession conflict, to establish Baekje around the present Seoul area.

Baekje

absorbed or conquered other Mahan chief doms and, at its peak in the 4th century, controlled most of the western Korean peninsula

Buddhism

was introduced to Baekje in 384 from Goguryeo, which Baekje welcomed

Seorabeol or Saro

Other name of Silla

Silla

According to Korean records, in 57 BC, in the southeast of the peninsula unified and expanded the confederation of city-states known as Jinhan