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1. ASIAN ART Hi! ¡Hola!

2. 01 THE HISTORY OF ASIAN ART

3. It includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Developments in Asian art historically parallel those in Western art, in general a few centuries earlier. Chinese art, Indian art, Korean art, Japanese art, each had significant influence on Western art, and vice versa. Near Eastern art also had a significant influence on Western art. Excluding prehistoric art, the art of Mesopotamia represents the oldest forms of Asian art.

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5. BUDDHIST ART O riginated in the Indian subcontinent in the centuries following the life of the historical Gautama Buddha in the 6th to 5th century BCE, before evolving through its contact with other cultures and its diffusion through the rest of Asia and the world.

6. BUDDHIST ART Buddhist art traveled with believers as the dharma spread, adapted, and evolved in each new host country. It developed to the north through Central Asia and into Eastern Asia to form the Northern branch of Buddhist art, and to the east as far as Southeast Asia to form the Southern branch of Buddhist art.

7. BUDDHIST ART Buddhist art flourished and even influenced the development of Hindu art, until Buddhism nearly disappeared in India around the 10th century CE due in part to the vigorous expansion of Islam alongside Hinduism.

8. Did you know? A common visual device in Buddhist art. From a viewer's perspective, it represents schematically the ideal universe. MANDALA

9. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing the attention of aspirants and adepts, a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. Its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises."

10. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the centre of the unconscious self," and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.

11. BHUTANESE ART 03

12. The major orders of Buddhism in Bhutan are:

13. DRUKPA KAGYU Is known for paintings documenting the lineage of Buddhist masters and the 70 Je Khenpo.

14. NYINGMA Is known for images of Padmasambhava , who is credited with introducing Buddhism into Bhutan in the 7th century.

15. BHUTANESE ART It is similar to the art of  Tibet. Both are based upon Vajrayana Buddhism, with its pantheon of divine beings. VAJRAYANA BUDDHISM ART OF TIBET

16. BHUTANESE ART Each divine being is assigned special shapes, colors, and/or identifying objects, such as lotus, conch-shell, thunderbolt, and begging bowl. All sacred images are made to exact specifications that have remained remarkably unchanged for centuries. Bhutanese art is particularly rich in bronzes of different kinds that are collectively known by the name Kham-so.

17. BHUTANESE ART Wall paintings and sculptures, in these regions, are formulated on the principal ageless ideals of Buddhist art forms. T heir emphasis on detail is derived from Tibetan models, their origins can be discerned easily, despite the profusely embroidered garments and glittering ornaments with which these figures are lavishly covered.

18. BHUTANESE ART The arts and crafts of Bhutan that represent the exclusive “spirit and identity of the Himalayan kingdom’ are defined as the art of Zorig Chosum , which means the “thirteen arts and crafts of Bhutan”. The thirteen crafts are carpentry, painting, paper making, blacksmithery , weaving, sculpturing , and many other crafts.

19. BHUTANESE ART Bhutanese rural life is also displayed in the ‘Folk Heritage Museum’ in Thimphu. There is also a ‘Voluntary Artists Studio’ in Thimphu to encourage and promote the art forms among the youth of Thimphu.

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21. CAMBODIAN ART AND THE CULTURE OF CAMBODIA H as had a rich and varied history dating back many centuries and has been heavily influenced by India. Cambodia greatly influenced Thailand, Laos and vice versa. Cambodia's history, religious principles guided and inspired its arts. A unique Khmer style emerged from the combination of indigenous animistic beliefs and the originally Indian religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. 

22. VISUAL ARTS OF CAMBODIA Cambodia, arts and crafts were generally produced by skilled artists .

23. TRADITIONAL CAMBODIAN ART AND CRAFTS TEXTILES NON-TEXTILE WEAVING

24. SILVERSMITHING STONE CARVING

25. LAQUERWARE CERAMICS

26. WAT MURALS KITE-MAKING

27. RELIEF FROM ANGKOR

28. The gods we find in Khmer sculpture are those of the two great religions of India, Buddhism and Hinduism. And they are always represented with great iconographic precision, clearly indicating that learned priests supervised the execution of the works. The true social function of Khmer art was, in fact, the glorification of the aristocracy through these images of the gods embodied in the princes. The sculptures are admirable images of a gods, royal and imposing presences, though not without feminine sensuality, makes us think of important persons at the courts, persons of considerable power.

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30. CHINESE ART H as varied throughout its ancient history, divided into periods by the ruling dynasties of China and changing technology. Different forms of art have been influenced by great philosophers, teachers, religious figures and even political leaders. Chinese art encompasses fine arts, folk arts and performance arts.

31. SONG DYNASTY Particularly noted for the great artistic achievements that it encouraged and, in part, subsidized.

32. Under, Song Dynasty developed the oldest extant form of chinese opera called Kunqu . Under, Yuan Dynasty opera became a variant of opera which continues today as Cantonese. CHINESE OPERA

33. POETRY Ci known as lyric poetry which means expressed feelings of desire. Many of its prime proponents were female poets, such as Li Qingzhao . Su Shi was another prominent Song poet famous for writing in the ci form. 

34. PAINTING A landscape paintings, with a blurred outlines and mountain contours which means distance through an impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena. Under, Yuan Dynasty is a painting by  Zhao Mengfu , greatly influenced laper chinese landscape painting. 

35. GONGBI It means "meticulous", the rich colours and details in the picture are its main features, its content mainly depicts portraits or narratives.

36. It means 'freehand', its form is often exaggerated and unreal, with an emphasis on the author's emotional expression and usually used in depicting landscapes. XIEYI

37. MOGAO GROTTOES In addition to paper and silk, traditional paintings have also been done on the walls, such as

38. CHINESE CALIGRAPHY

39. The Chinese calligraphy can be traced back to the Dazhuan (large seal script) that appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. After Emperor Qin unified China, Prime Minister Li Si collected and compiled Xiaozhuan (small seal) style as a new official text.

40. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a type of script called the Lishu (Official Script) began to rise. After that, the Kaishu style (traditional regular script) has appeared, and its structure is simpler and neater.

41. JADE Early jade was used as an ornament or sacrificial utensils .

42. CARVED-JADE OBJECT The earliest Chinese carved-jade object appeared in the Hemudu culture in the early Neolithic period (about 3500–2000 BCE).

43. BI AND CONG During the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 bce ), Bi (circular perforated jade) and Cong (square jade tube) appeared, which were guessed as sacrificial utensils, representing the sky and the earth.

44. PORCELAIN It i s a kind of ceramics made from kaolin at high temperature.

45. The history of Chinese porcelain can be traced back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). In the Tang Dynasty, porcelain was divided into: CERAMIC WHITE PORCELAIN

46. MODERN CHINESE ART

47. After the end of the last feudal dynasty in China, with the rise of the new cultural movement, Chinese artists began to be influenced by Western art and began to integrate Western art into Chinese culture. At the beginning of the 20th century, oil paintings were introduced to China, and more and more Chinese painters began to touch Western painting techniques and combine them with traditional Chinese painting. Meanwhile, a new form of painting, comics, has also begun to rise. It was popular with many people and became the most affordable way to entertain at the time.

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49. INDIAN ART Indian art can be classified into specific periods, each reflecting certain religious, political and cultural developments. The earliest examples are the petroglyphs such as those found in Bhimbetka, some of them dating to before 5500 BC.

50. The art of the Indus Valley Civilization CARVED PILLARS OF ELLORA

51. ELLORA CAVES FRESCOS OF AJANTA

52. MUGHAL PAINTING The contributions of the Mughal Empire to Indian. A style of miniature painting heavily influenced by Persian miniatures, and Mughal architecture .

53. RANGOLI One of the most popular art forms in India. It is a form of sandpainting decoration that uses finely ground white powder and colours , and is used commonly outside homes in India.

54. VISUAL ART A re tightly interrelated with the non-visual arts. According to Kapila Vatsyayan , "Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kaavya ), music and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio -philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

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56. INDONESIAN ART Indonesian art and culture has been shaped by long interaction between original indigenous customs and multiple foreign influences. Indonesia is central along ancient trading routes between the Far East and the Middle East . Indonesia is not generally known for paintings, aside from the intricate and expressive Balinese paintings, which often express natural scenes and themes from the traditional dances.

57. KENYAH MURAL PAINTING Indigenous kenyah paint design based on, as commonly found among Austronesian cultures, endemic natural motifs such as ferns, trees, dog, hornbills and human figures.   

58. INDONESIAN ART Indonesia has a long-he Bronze and Iron Ages. Most notable are the hundreds of meters of relief sculpture at the temple of Borobudur in central Java. Approximately two miles of exquisite relief sculpture tell the story of the life of Buddha and illustrate his teachings. The temple was originally home to 504 statues of the seated Buddha.

59. INDONESIAN ART Calligraphy based on Qur’an, used as decoration as Islam forbids naturalistic depictions. Modern Indonesian painters use a wide variety of styles and themes.

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61. BALINESE ART I s art of Hindu-Javanese origin that grew from the work of artisans of the Majapahit Kingdom, with their expansion to Bali in the late 13th century. From the 16th until the 20th centuries, the village of Kamasan , Klungkung (East Bali), was the centre of classical Balinese art. During the 1st Part of the 20th century, new varieties are of Balinese art developed.

62. TRADITIONAL BALINESE PAINTING Ubud and Butuan is known for their paintings

63. MAS FOR THEIR WOOD CARVINGS

64. CELUK FOR GOLD AND SILVERSMITHS

65. BATUBULAN FOR THEIR STONE CARVINGS

66. “ a highly developed. Although informal Baroque folk art that combines the peasant liveliness with the refinement of classicism of Hinduistic Java, but free toof the conservative prejudice and with a new vitality fired by the exubernace of the democratic spirit of the tropical primitive.” - Covarrubias

67. Balinese art is actually carved, painted, woven, and prepared into objects intended for everyday use rather than as object d’art. - Eiseman

68. AVANT-GARDE ARTIST SUCH AS: WALTER SPIES RUDOLF BONNET ADRIEN-EAN LE MAYEUR ARIE SMIT DONALD FRIEND

69. This groundbreaking period of creativity reached a peak in the late 1930s. A stream of famous visitors, including: CHARLIE CHAPLIN GREGORY BATESON MARGARET MEAD

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71. JAPANESE ART Japanese art and architecture is works of art produced in Japan from the beginnings of human habitation there. Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, and a myriad of other types of works of art; from ancient times until the contemporary 21st century.

72. JAPANESE ART Ba sed on artifact such as ceramic figures and ornaments. It was influenced by Korean and Chinese artworks. Ceramic figures that is made up of clay. That were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects. HANIWA

73. JAPANESE ART The art form rose to great popularity in the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo) during the second half of the 17th century, originating with the single-color works of Hishikawa Moronobu in the 1670s.

74. NISHIKI-E I s a type of Japanese multi-coloured   woodblock printing ; the technique is used primarily in  ukiyo-e . It was invented in 1960s.

75. JAPANESE PAINTING Japanese painting ( Kaiga ) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese arts, encompassing a wide variety of genre and styles.

76. DOTAKU BRONZE BELL Simple stick figures and geometric designs can be found on Jōmon period pottery and Yayoi period (300 BC – 300 AD).

77. MURAL PAINTINGS WITH BOTH GEOMETRIC AND FIGURATIVE DESIGNS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN KOFUN PERIOD

78. JAPANESE SCULPTURE W as mostly derived from the idol worship in Buddhism or animistic rites of Shinto deity. Materials traditionally used were metal—especially bronze—and, more commonly, wood, often lacquered, gilded, or brightly painted.

79. BUDDHA OF KAMAKURA One of the most famous statues of this time. Also well known are the great guardian figures, carved by the famous sculptor Unkei , which are at the entrance gate to the Todai -ji temple in Nara.

80. UKIYO-E M eaning "floating world", refers to the impetuous young culture that bloomed in the urban centers of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), Osaka, and Kyoto that were a world unto themselves. It is an ironic allusion to the homophone term "Sorrowful World”, the earthly plane of death and rebirth from which Buddhists sought release.

81. RYUKYUAN LACQUERWARE I s distinguished by the use of  inlaid  seashells and various native Ryukyuan artistic motifs, and a strong tendency towards red lacquer, which is rather less common in the rest of Japan.

82. A re  Japanese paintings  from about 1900 onwards that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials. NIHONGA

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84. KOREAN ART Korean art is noted for its traditions in pottery, music, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, and other genres, often marked by the use of bold color, natural forms, precise shape and scale, and surface decoration. The study and appreciation of Korean art is still at a formative stage in west. An art given birth to and developed by a nation is its own art

85. KOREAN ART The history of Korean painting is dated to approximately 108 C.E.  Korean painting has been a constant separation of monochromatic works of black B rushwork on very often mulberry paper or silky; The colorful folk art or min- hwa , ritual arts ,  tomb paintings , and festival arts.

86. MIN-HWA RITUAL ARTS TOMB PAINTINGS FESTIVAL ARTS (Body Arts)

87. CONTEMPORARY ART IN KOREA The first example of Western-style oil painting in Korean art was in the self-portraits of Korean artist Ko Hu i -dong (1886-1965). Only three of these works still remain today. these self-portraits impart an understanding of medium that extends well beyond the affirmation of stylistic and cultural difference by the early twentieth century, the decision to paint using oil and canvas in Korea had two different interpretations. One being a sense of enlightenment due to western ideas and art styles.

88. KOREAN ART Korean pottery was recognized as early as 6000 BCE. This pottery was also referred to as comb-patterned pottery due to the decorative lines carved onto the outside early Korean societies were mainly dependent on fishing. Pottery had two main regional distinctions. - East coast tends to have a flat base. - South coast had a round base.

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90. LAOTIAN ART Lao Buddhist sculptures were created in a large variety of material including gold, silver and most often bronze. Brick-and-mortar also was a medium used for colossal images, a famous of these is the image of Phya Vat (16th century) in Vientiane, although a renovation completely altered the appearance of the sculpture, and it no longer resembles a Lao Buddha.

91. LAOTIAN ART The most famous two sculptures carved in semi-precious stone are the: - Phra Keo (The Emerald Buddha) - Phra Phuttha Butsavarat .

92. I s probably of Xieng Sen (Chiang Saen) origin, is carved from a solid block of jade. It rested in Vientiane for two hundred years before the Siamese carried it away as booty in the late 18th century. PHRA KEO

93. PHRA PHUTTA BUTSAVARAT L ike the Phra Keo , is also enshrined in its own chapel at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Before the Siamese seized it in the early 19th century, this crystal image was the palladium of the Lao kingdom of Champassack .

94. NEPALESE ART

95. The ancient and refined traditional culture of Kathmandu, for that matter in the whole of Nepal, is an uninterrupted and exceptional meeting of the Hindu and Buddhist ethos practiced by its highly religious people. It has also embraced in its fold the cultural diversity provided by the other religions such as Jainism, Islam and Christianity.

96. TRADITONAL CULTURE OF KATHMANDU

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98. THAI ART Thai art and visual art was traditionally and primarily Buddhist and Royal Art. Sculpture was almost exclusively of Buddha images, while painting was confined to illustration of books and decoration of buildings, primarily palaces and temples.

99. THAI ART Traditional Thai paintings showed subjects in two dimensions without perspective. The size of each element in the picture reflected its degree of importance.

100. THAI ART The primary technique of composition is that of apportioning areas. This eliminated the intermediate ground, which would otherwise imply perspective.  Perspective was introduced only as a result of Western influence in the mid-19th century.

101. THE SUKHOTHAI KINGDOM Buddha images of the Sukhothai period are elegant, with sinuous bodies and slender, oval faces. This period saw the introduction of the "walking Buddha" pose.

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103. TIBETAN ART R efers to the art of Tibet and other present and former Himalayan kingdoms (Bhutan, Ladakh, Nepal, and Sikkim). Tibetan art is first and foremost a form of sacred art, reflecting the over-riding influence of Tibetan Buddhism on these cultures.

104. SAND MANDALA I s a Tibetan Buddhist tradition which symbolizes the transitory nature of things. A sand mandala is an example of this, being that once it has been built and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished, it is systematically destroyed.

105. Tibetan Buddhism contains Tantric Buddhism, also known as Vajrayana Buddhism for its common symbolism of the vajra, the diamond thunderbolt (known in Tibetan as the dorje).

106. A visual aspect of Tantric Buddhism is the common representation of wrathful deities, often depicted with angry faces, circles of flame, or with the skulls of the dead.

107. TIBETAN ART Historians note that Chinese painting had a profound influence on Tibetan painting in general. Chinese painting had a deep and far-stretched impact on Tibetan visual art. According to Giuseppe Tucci, by the time of the Qing Dynasty, "a new Tibetan art was then developed, which in a certain sense was a provincial echo of the Chinese 18th century's smooth ornate preciosity.

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109. VIETNAMESE ART I s from one of the oldest of such cultures in the Southeast Asia region. A rich artistic heritage that dates to prehistoric times and includes:

110. VIETNAMESE SILK PAINTING II VIETNAMESE SCULPTURE IN LY DYNASTY

111. VIETNAMESE CERAMIC ART REFINED IN THE 14 TH CENTURY VIETNAMESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS IN HOI AN

112. HUE ROYAL ARCHITECTURE TRADITIONAL VIETNAMESE DANCE (Fan Dance)

113. AN ORCHESTRA OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC IN VIETNAM VIETNAMESE THEATRE CAI LUONG

114. VIETNAMESE ART Traditional Vietnamese art is art practiced in Vietnam or by Vietnamese artists, from ancient times (including the elaborate Đông Sơn drums) to post-Chinese domination art which was strongly influenced by Chinese Buddhist art, among other philosophies such as Taoism and Confucianism.

115. VIETNAMESE ART Modern Vietnamese artists began to utilize French techniques with many traditional mediums such as silk, lacquer, etc., thus creating a unique blend of eastern and western elements.

116. VIETNAMESE CALLIGRAPHY Calligraphy has had a long history in Vietnam, previously using Chinese characters along with chữ nôm . However, most modern Vietnamese calligraphy instead uses the Roman-character based Quốc Ngữ , which has proven to be very popular.

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