Honolulu Museum of Art

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Honolulu Museum of Art

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The East meets the West

Entrance to the Museum

Centre Courtyard

This sculpture head and the one on the slide are from Afghanistan, Both show distinctive Greco-Roman influence. Afghanistan is the cross road between the western and eastern civilizations, since Alexander the Great went to India.

Afghanistan 3C - 5C

Afghanistan 3C - 5C

India 9C - 10C

This breaded man probably come from sculpture decorating the exterior of temples in northern India. He could be a temple disciple, patron, or attendant to a god.

China 7-10C

This Tang Dynasty is one of the Zenith of Chinese civilisation.

China 11C

In China, Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara) is the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Guanyin is often shown with female features. Tangut Xia is also known as Western Xia. It was an empire of the Tangut people and Tibetans, occupied an area covered by modern province of Ningsiz, Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northern Shaannxi.

China 11C

Note the tiara in the head. Buddhism was introduced into China from India.

Indonesia 19C

Tau tau are wooden effigy of ancestors, normally clothed and display on cliffs overlooking on the fields below. The are particular to the Toraja ethnic group in South Sulawest, Indonesia.

Japan 3-5C AD

Japan 10C

Kichijo Tennyo, the auspicious fairy of Japan. She is the goddess of fertility, fortune, luck, beauty and merit.

Cambodia 10C

The Khmer Empire is the predecessor state to modern Cambodia. It was a Hindu-Buddhist empire.

Cambodia 12-13C

India 10th Century

South India 18th Century

South India 18th Century

India 18-19th Century

Chinese Courtyard

China 10C

The Five Dynasties was a period of upheaval in China, after the fall of the Tang dynasty.

Korea 12C

Vietnam 16C

Between the 14C to 17C Vietnam exports its ceramics to other parts of Asia.

Mediterranean Courtyard

Hawaiian

Hawaiian

Hawaiian

Hawaiian

Hawaiian

Herbert Vos (1855-1935) was born in Maastricht . He work in England from 1885 to 1892 and he was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.

Hawaiian

Hawaiian

Hawaiian

Hawaiian

Church – 19C American

Cassatt - 19C American

Cassatt - 19C American

Cassatt - 19C American

Cosimo – 16C Italian

Eakins – 19C American

Moran – 19C American

Sargent – 19C American

Ito Shinsui – 20C Japan

Shinsui Ito was a ukiyo-o woodblock print artist. He was one of the great names of the shin-hanga art movement, which revitalized the declining traditional Japanese art.

Ito Shinsui – 20C Japan

Paul Jacoulet– 20C French

Paul Jacoulet (1896-1960) was French but raised and lived in Japan for most of his life. He father was an ambassador. He lived next door to Ukiyoe wood block artist.

Paul Jacoulet– 20C French

Paul Jacoulet– 20C French

Paul Jacoulet– 20C French

Paul Jacoulet– 20C French

Paul Jacoulet– 20C French

Museum Plan

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The End

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