Art

Of China and Japan

Art Of China

• Chinese Civilization retain many of its ancient traditions today.

• Beginning 4,000 years ago, iti s the oldest continuous culture in the history of the world

Art Historical Characteristics:

The Chinese invented paper, porcelain and woodblock printing.

Chinese artists captured the beauty of nature in paintings- fans, books, scrolls or paper or silk.

The Chinese also produced sculpture and ceramic objects from terracotta/stoneware/porcelain for religious purposes and to honor the dead.

Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi

Shaanxi Province, China

210 B.C.E.painted terracotta

Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi

Shaanxi Province, China

210 B.C.E.painted terracotta

Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi

Shaanxi Province, China

210 B.C.E.painted terracotta

Fan Kuan

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

early 11th centuryhanging scroll, ink, and colors on silk6 ft. 7 1/4 in. x 3 ft. 4 1/4 in.

Foguang Si Pagoda

Yingxian, China

1056 C.E.

Zhou Jichang

Arhats Giving Alms to Beggars

1178 C.E.ink and colors on silk44 x 21 in.

Meiping vase

960-1127 C.E.Stoneware, Cizhou type with sgraffito decoration

Jar, Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period (1426–1435)ChinaPorcelain painted in underglaze blue; H. 19 in.

Japanese Art

• Buddhism spread to Japan from China• Intricate Buddhist temples built from wood.

They used wood because the islands were made of volcanic rock and they could not use this stone to build their temples.

• The Japanese also created monumental bronze sculptures of Buddha.

• Beginning in the 8th c., artists developed uniquely Japanese screen and woodblock prints. Woodblock printing is making prints by carving images in blocks of wood.

Great Buddha. 1252. Bronze. (Height 35’) Kamakura, Japan.

Haniwa warrior figure

from Gunma Prefecture, Japan

5th to 6th century C.E.low-fired clay49 1/4 in. high

Ise Shrine

Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan

originally 5th century C.E.rebuilt 1973

Phoenix Hall

Byodoin, Uji, Japan

1053 C.E.

Japan, Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), 1397 – It is literally covered in Gold Leaf

Flying StorehouseThe Legends of Mount Shigi

Chogosonshiji, Nara

late 12th centuryhandscroll ink and color on paper1 1/2 ft. high

Tōshūsai Sharaku, famous Japanese print artist, known for his portraits of kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers

Otani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei, 1794

The Actors Ichikawa Tomiemon (R) and Sanogawa Ichimatsu III (L) as Kanisaka Toda and

Onayo, c. 1795

Detail of Burning of the Sanjo Palace

13th century C.E.

handscroll, ink and colors on paper16 1/4 in. high

Kano Motonobu

Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom

Muramachi Period, ca. 1513hanging scroll, ink and color on paper5 ft. 7 3/8 in. x 2 ft. 10 3/4 in.

Hasegawa Tohaku

Pine Forest

Monoyama Period, late 16th C.one of a pair of six-panel screensink on paper5 ft. 1 3/8 in. x 11 ft. 4 in.

Katsushika Hokusai

was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese

painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo),

Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of

Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series

Edo Period, ca. 1826-33, woodblock print oban, ink and colors on paper9 7/8 in. x 1 ft. 2 3/4 in.

Hokusai's most famous work, and one of the best recognized works of Japanese art in the world is the one below. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture of Kanagawa. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is, as the picture's title notes, more likely to be a large okinami ("wave of the open sea"). As in all the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background.