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October 21, 2014Chinese Landscape Painting shan shui (shway) : means mountain water

山水 Scroll: roll of paper or fabric containing poetry and paintings

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Alternate Assignment to Workshop and Chinese Landscape Painting Assignment• Read Chapter 44 in Art In Action• Write a one paragraph, 3-4 sentence summary• Write a landscape assignment for yourself based on

the readings• Paint a watercolor landscape • Write an artist statement describing your process and

your work• Present to classmates

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October 22/23, 2014

The Four Treasures of Chinese PaintingInk-moBrush-biPaper-zhiInk stone-yan

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Review and Timeline for TodayREVIEW QUESTIONS• What is shan shui?

• What is a scroll, how is it different from western art works?

• What are the four natural elements in a landscape?

• Colors: complements, warm and cool

• Negative space weaves through painting

• Far away objects are faded in detail and color, smaller in size

• Close by objects are brighter in color, larger in size, more detailed

• Layer objects vertically on long paper, cover whole paper top to bottom

• Intersect elements

Timeline• Examine a Scroll for Review• Ink making demonstration• Compose your landscape first in pencil LIGHTLY get approved by Ms. K or Ms. S.

Should include: Sky/clouds, Trees, bushes, plants of a variety of shapes and sizes, water element (pond, ocean, river, stream, waterfall), Rocks and Mountains-overlap, irregular

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Li River Cruise, China 2007 by Nandita Baxi Sheth

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Li River, GuilinChina, 2007

Nandita Baxi Sheth

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Li River, GuilinChina, 2007

Nandita Baxi Sheth

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Friday October 24 Schedule• Warm Up: Critical Response• Rubric Review and Instructions• Finishing your Painting when it is complete and dry• Select two end printed papers• Punch two holes in one end paper-use hole punch placement

guide• Glue printed papers about 1” under the bottom and top of

your painting • Cut string, punch holes, thread string through and tie knot in

string• Fill out rubric questions and turn into the basket for your bell.

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Critical Response

Contemporary Chinese Landscape PaintingArtist: Wu Guangzhuang

Additional Critical Response QuestionHow is the painting similar to traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings?• In what ways is it different?

Source: http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-wu-guanzhong-mountain.php

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Lion Woods, 1983, ink and color on rice paper, 173 x 290 cm, Shanghai Art Museum Wu Guangzhuang, 1919-2010

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Summer Mountains, Misty Rain, Dated 1668, Handscroll, ink and color on paper, 16 1/2 x 97 in. (41.8 x 246.4 cm) Asian Art Museum of San Francisco