ART: Arts of East Asia

jiaguwen

The script found on these objects is commonly called _________ , or shell-and-bone script. • Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, got his ideas from observing animals' footprints and birds' claw marks on the sand as well as other natural phenomena.

Calligraphy

art of beautiful handwriting

Peking opera face

-painting or Jingju Lianpu is done with different colors in accordance with the performing characters' personality and historical assessment.

Landscape painting

-regarded as highest form of chinese painting.

Zhu Wen

- A green face tells the audience that the character is not only impulsive and violent, he also lacks self- restraint.

Zhang Fei

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

Guan Ju

- Red indicates devotion, courage, bravery, uprightness and loyalty.

Multi- inclined

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

Jiang Gan

- The clown or chou in Chinese Opera has special makeup patterns called xiaohualian (the petty painted face). Sometimes a small patch of chalk is painted around the nose to show a mean and secretive character.

Huang Pang

- Yellow signifies fierceness, ambition and cool- headedness.

Sweeping

- has curves that rise at the corners of the roof. These are usually reserved for temples and palaces although it may also be found in the homes of the wealthy.

Straight inclined

- more economical for common Chinese architecture

Cao Cao

- white suggests treachery, suspiciousness and craftiness. It is common to see the white face of the powerful villain on stage.

Lian Po

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

sweeping

East Asian temples and houses have _______roofs because they believe that it will protect them from the elements of water, wind and fire. Buddhists believed that it helped ward off evil spirits which were deemed to be straight lines.

Japanese Ukiyo-e

The best known and most popular style of Japanese art is __________, 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. This art art was produced in a diversity of different media, including painting and became an art domain of the upper classes and royalty but later was also produced by the common people.

roof guards

The figures at the tips are called on temples are called _____________ .

Silk

________ was often used as the medium to paint upon, but it was quite expensive. • Cai Lun, invented the paper in the 1st Century AD it provided not only a cheap and widespread medium for writing but painting became more economical.

Woodblock printing

is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia. It became one of their oldest and most highly developed visual arts.

Nature, heaven and humankind

the three concepts considered in arts in east asian painting

1. Straight inclined 2. Multi-inclined 3. Sweeping

three main types of roofs in traditional Chinese architecture that influenced other Asian architecture: