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The Art of Asia Goal: I can compare and Contrast the art styles of India, China, and Japan.

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The Art of Asia. Goal: I can compare and Contrast the art styles of India, China, and Japan. India. The Flag. India. Location. India. India’s art is strongly influenced by religion. India. India’s art is strongly influenced by religion Hinduism Buddhism. India. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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India

• India’s art is strongly influenced by religion

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India

• India’s art is strongly influenced by religion– Hinduism– Buddhism

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India

• India’s art is strongly influenced by religion– Hinduism– Buddhism

• Architechture, statues, and ceremonial beliefs were centered on religious principles

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Bellringer: At the top of your China/Japan review, determine which artwork is from China and which is from Japan.

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China

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China

• Art was centered around Buddhism, stressing harmony of humans with nature

• Artists used meditation to focus and PERCEIVE the beauty of nature before doing artwork.

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China

• Calligraphy originated in China– Definition: beautiful writing– Done with brush and ink using sweeping motions

to make lines thick and thin in areas

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China• Ink and Brush Painting– Paintings that use black ink—the same as used in

East Asian calligraphy– most prestigious form of Chinese art

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China

• Scrolls

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China• Kaolin Pottery (Porcelain)

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Japan

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Japan

• Japanese art is so similar to Chinese, because Buddhism was brought to Japan through Buddhist missionaries from China.

• They learned new styles of art from surrounding Asian countries, but eventually took those characteristics and made their own unique style.

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Japan

• Pagoda– A tower several stories high with roofs curving

slightly upward at the edges

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Japan

• Liurong Temple– Japan’s most famous Pagoda

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Japan

• Yamato-e– “pictures in the Japanese manner”

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Japan

• Ukiyo-e– “pictures of the floating world”– a Japanese art movement that flourished from

the 17th to the 19th century and producedpaintings and prints depicting the everyday

lifeand interests of the common people

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Japan

• Printmaking - a process in which the artist repeatedly transfers an original image from one prepared surface to another

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• Choose one of the artworks from the book (327-330)

• -Is this artwork characteristic of China, Japan, or both?

• -Are there certain features to show that it is from that specific country? If so, what?

• -Describe this artwork (What are the characteristics? How are the elements of art portrayed in this?)