APAH: Unit 5 - Chinese, Japanese, & Korean Art

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Jade kong

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<p>Jade kong (culture &amp; location)</p>

Jade kong (culture & location)

Chinese; Longzhu, China

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<p>Jade kong (date &amp; material)</p>

Jade kong (date & material)

3,300-2,200 BCE; jade

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<p>Jade kong (use &amp; facts)</p>

Jade kong (use & facts)

  • cylinder & circle represent realms of life and death?

  • jade is hard & translucent

  • found at grave sights

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Terracotta Army & Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi

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<p><span>Terracotta Army &amp; Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi (culture &amp; location)</span></p>

Terracotta Army & Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi (culture & location)

Chinese; Lintong, China

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<p><span>Terracotta Army &amp; Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi (date &amp; material)</span></p>

Terracotta Army & Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi (date & material)

221-209 BCE; painted terracotta

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<p><span>Terracotta Army &amp; Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi (use &amp; facts)</span></p>

Terracotta Army & Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi (use & facts)

  • protect emperor in death

  • discovered in 1973 by farmers

  • 8000 full sized (& taller) warriors & horses

  • 2000 years old

  • individual heads represent diversity

  • mass production of bodies by slaves or indentured servants

  • put together in parts

  • also chariots, weapons, bureaucrats, & entertainers

  • original bright colors have faded over time

  • necropolis began at his birth

  • artists signed the bottom of each figure (killed if work flawed)

  • Shi Huangdi (patron) buried workmen alive when they were finished

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Funeral Banner of Lady Dai

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<p><span>Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (culture &amp; location)</span></p>

Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (culture & location)

Han Dynasty; Mawangdui, China

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<p>Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (date &amp; material)</p>

Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (date & material)

180 BCE; painted silk

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<p>Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (use &amp; facts)</p>

Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (use & facts)

  • used in funeral procession & ceremony

  • registers show different realms: heaven, Lady Dai & her attendants, body of Lady Dai with mourners, & underworld

  • shows Lady Dai’s soul ascending to heaven

  • Han Dynasty obsessed with immortality

  • found in tomb with 1400+ objects of silk, wood, bamboo, pottery, clothing, & food

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Longmen Caves

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<p>Longmen Caves (culture &amp; location)</p>

Longmen Caves (culture & location)

Tang Dynasty; banks of Yi River (China)

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<p>Longmen Caves (date &amp; material)</p>

Longmen Caves (date & material)

493-1127 CE; limestone

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<p>Longmen Caves (use &amp; facts)</p>

Longmen Caves (use & facts)

  • worship site for Buddhists

  • Vairocana Buddha (celestial Buddha) on altar with bodhisattvas (achieved & enlightenment but stay on earth to help others), monks, & guardians

  • built using private funds of patroness Empress Wei Zetain

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Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

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<p><span>Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (culture &amp; creator)</span></p>

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (culture & creator)

Song Dynasty China; Fan Kuan

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<p><span>Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (date &amp; material)</span></p>

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (date & material)

960-1279 CE; ink & color on silk

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<p><span>Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (use &amp; facts)</span></p>

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (use & facts)

  • used as a piece to contemplate/meditate in Daoism

  • seven-foot-tall hanging scroll

  • “most famous of all Chinese landscape”

  • classic Chinese perspective of 3 planes – near, middle (water & mist), & far

  • Fan Kuan used overlapping forms of fore-, middle, & background to create the illusion of deep space

  • theme is grandeur of natures

  • can see mule train at base of towering cliff

  • student of Li Ch’eng

  • wonder of nature = Daoist

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David Vases

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<p>David Vases (culture &amp; location)</p>

David Vases (culture & location)

Chinese; Xingyuan, China

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<p>David Vases (date &amp; material)</p>

David Vases (date & material)

1351 CE; porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze

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<p>David Vases (use &amp; facts)</p>

David Vases (use & facts)

  • Made with incense burner to be used on Daoist altar in a Daoist temple

  • inscription on one vase explains for whom it was destined

  • porcelain is type of Chinese clay fired very hot to become white

  • blue color traded for from Iran

  • made in Mongol empire or Yuan dynasty

  • earliest blue & white ware

  • elephant head handles

  • flowers & leaves, & traditional Chinese dragons

  • named after Sir David, collector

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Forbidden City

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<p>Forbidden City (culture &amp; location)</p>

Forbidden City (culture & location)

Ming Dynasty; Beijing, China

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<p>Forbidden City (date &amp; material)</p>

Forbidden City (date & material)

15th century CE; wood, brick, & marble

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<p>Forbidden City (use &amp; facts)</p>

Forbidden City (use & facts)

  • palace

  • Hall of Supreme Harmony – throne room/seat of power

  • place of new years festival, winter solstice, & emperor’s bday

  • yellow roofs with red painted beams on marble foundation

  • animals on roof “prevent fire”

  • 9000 rooms, largest Chinese architecture complex & 30 ft high walls

  • forbidden = no one enters or leaves without permission

  • built on North-South & East-West axis

  • lots of dragon motifs = emperor

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Chaiman Mao en Route to Anyuan

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<p><span>Chaiman Mao en Route to Anyuan (location &amp; creator)</span></p>

Chaiman Mao en Route to Anyuan (location & creator)

Chinese; Liu Chunhua

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<p><span>Chaiman Mao en Route to Anyuan (date &amp; material)</span></p>

Chaiman Mao en Route to Anyuan (date & material)

1967 CE; oil on canvas

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<p><span>Chaiman Mao en Route to Anyuan (use &amp; facts)</span></p>

Chaiman Mao en Route to Anyuan (use & facts)

  • propganda supporting Mao

  • painted at beginning of Cultural Revolution

  • during this time artists created portraits of Mao to help him regain hold after political struggles

  • distract from disasters of 1950s – famine & deaths after Great Leap Forward (modernization of China)

  • uses socialist realism to portray Mao as revolutionary leader ready to fight for common people

  • Mao’s size (larger than mountains) reflects artist’s message that he is hugely important to Chinese Society

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Portrait of Sin Sukju

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<p>Portrait of Sin Sukju (culture)</p>

Portrait of Sin Sukju (culture)

Korean

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<p>Portrait of Sin Sukju (date &amp; material)</p>

Portrait of Sin Sukju (date & material)

1417-1475 CE; ink on silk, hanging scroll

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<p>Portrait of Sin Sukju (use &amp; facts)</p>

Portrait of Sin Sukju (use & facts)

  • used in ancestor worship to show filial piety in rituals

  • scholar & prime minister

  • portrait shows his contributions to the state of Korea

  • “meritorious subject”

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Crown of the Silla Kingdom

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<p>Crown of the Silla Kingdom (culture &amp; location)</p>

Crown of the Silla Kingdom (culture & location)

Korean; Korea

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<p>Crown of the Silla Kingdom (date &amp; material)</p>

Crown of the Silla Kingdom (date & material)

5th-6th century CE; gold & jade

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<p>Crown of the Silla Kingdom (use &amp; facts)</p>

Crown of the Silla Kingdom (use & facts)

  • uesd in death & some royal ceremonies

  • geometric trees & antlers from Siberia

  • tree represents sacred tree of Gyeongju (capital), thought to be axis mundi

  • no Chinese influence

  • fragile

  • attached to the “branches” are tiny gold discs& jade ornaments called gogok (ripe fruits symbolizing fertility & abundance)

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Todai-ji Temple

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<p>Todai-ji Temple (culture &amp; location)</p>

Todai-ji Temple (culture & location)

Japanese; Nara, Japan

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<p>Todai-ji Temple (date &amp; material)</p>

Todai-ji Temple (date & material)

743 CE; wood (cypress)

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<p>Todai-ji Temple (use &amp; facts)</p>

Todai-ji Temple (use & facts)

  • Buddhist temple

  • damaged by warfare with multiple restorations

  • original parts are statue on lotus petal-throne & drapery

  • also 8+ft Nio Guardian figures found here

  • figures made using joint block technique with outer wood carved & painted (c. 1203 CE)

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Night Attack at Sanjo Palace

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<p>Night Attack at Sanjo Palace (culture)</p>

Night Attack at Sanjo Palace (culture)

Japanese

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<p>Night Attack at Sanjo Palace (date &amp; material)</p>

Night Attack at Sanjo Palace (date & material)

1250-1300 CE; ink & color on paper

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<p>Night Attack at Sanjo Palace (use &amp; facts)</p>

Night Attack at Sanjo Palace (use & facts)

  • preserving history (from pov of victor)

  • Japanese Kamakura period

  • painted 100 years after event

  • swift, active brushstrokes, elevated point of view, diagonals-for movement

  • narrative read right to left

  • military rule had interest in “code of warrior”

  • type of painted called emaki (picture scroll)

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Ryoan-ji Dry Garden

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<p>Ryoan-ji Dry Garden (culture &amp; location)</p>

Ryoan-ji Dry Garden (culture & location)

Japanese; Kyoto, Japan

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<p>Ryoan-ji Dry Garden (date &amp; material)</p>

Ryoan-ji Dry Garden (date & material)

c. early 16th century CE; Rocks, water, moss, pruned trees, & bushes, gravel/sand

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<p>Ryoan-ji Dry Garden (use &amp; facts)</p>

Ryoan-ji Dry Garden (use & facts)

  • place of meditation

  • Japanese rock garden, “dry landscape” = Zen garden

  • miniature stylized landscape

  • larger rock formations arranged in field of smooth pebbles raked into linear patters that facilitate meditation

  • wavy patterns represent water, rocks are mountain ranges

  • asymmetrical, not all seen at once

  • bounded by low yellow wall

  • focus for meditation

  • made during Muromachi period (1392-1573)

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White and Red Plum Blossoms

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<p>White and Red Plum Blossoms (culture &amp; creator)</p>

White and Red Plum Blossoms (culture & creator)

Japanese; Ogata Korin

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<p>White and Red Plum Blossoms (date &amp; material)</p>

White and Red Plum Blossoms (date & material)

1710-1716 CE; watercolor on paper, gold leaf background

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<p>White and Red Plum Blossoms (use &amp; facts)</p>

White and Red Plum Blossoms (use & facts)

  • created for wealthy patron

  • painted in black ink & blotchy washes of mineral color on pair of folding screens

  • both abstract & realistic

  • gold leaf background negates place & time & gives ethereal glow

  • stylized water, realistic plum trees

  • Rinpa = combination of abstraction, naturalism, monumental presence, dynamism, & sensuality

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Under the Great Wave

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<p>Under the Great Wave (culture &amp; creator)</p>

Under the Great Wave (culture & creator)

Japanese; Hokusai

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<p>Under the Great Wave (date &amp; material)</p>

Under the Great Wave (date & material)

1830 CE; ink & color on paper

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<p>Under the Great Wave (use &amp; facts)</p>

Under the Great Wave (use & facts)

  • part of series of prints hoping to increase tourism revenue in Japan

  • if asked to attribute a work, if it depicts Mt. Fuji = Hokusai

  • part of a series of woodblock prints called Thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji

  • ukiyo-e prints (name for type of prints this work is  apart of)

  • contrast heightens tension

  • use of western perspective

  • cobalt blue pigment = western influence

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