grade 8 East Asian Arts Powerpoint presentation

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1. Arts of East Asia (Japan, China and Korea)

2. OBJECTIVES Identify the arts and crafts of East Asia according to their characteristics. Distinguish the similarities, differences, and uniqueness of East Asian arts and crafts Appreciate the traditional and modern techniques in creating artworks of East Asian countries.

3. THE ARTS OF EAST ASIA

4. Chinese Painting Chinese painters prefer freestyle and curving lines than mechanical, straight lines. They get inspiration from their pursuit of calligraphy, especially cursive writings of different styles.

5. Chinese calligraphy the stylized artistic writing of Chinese characters, is the written form of Chinese that unites the languages (many mutually unintelligible) spoken in China.

6. Landscape painting Landscape painting was regarded as the highest form of Chinese painting. They also consider the three concepts of their arts: Heaven, Earth, and Humankind (Yin-Yang). Chinese society, basically agricultural, has always laid great stress on understanding the pattern of nature and living in accordance with it.

7. Landscape painting It is very popular and is associated with refined scholarly taste. The Chinese term for "landscape" is made up of two characters meaning "mountains and water." It is linked with the philosophy of Daoism, which emphasizes harmony with the natural world.

8. Landscape painting It is very popular and is associated with refined scholarly taste. The Chinese term for "landscape" is made up of two characters meaning "mountains and water." It is linked with the philosophy of Daoism, which emphasizes harmony with the natural world.

9. Landscape painting Silk was often used as the medium to paint upon, but it was quite expensive. When Han court eunuch , Cai Lun , invented paper in the 1st century AD, it provided not only a cheap and widespread medium for writing but painting became more economical.

10. Chinese silk painting

11. Chinese painting Chinese art expresses the human understanding of the relationship between nature and humans. This is evident in the form of painting of landscapes, bamboo, birds, and flowers, etc. This might be called the metaphysical Daoist aspect of Chinese painting

12. Painting Subjects or Themes flowers and birds human figures 3. landscapes 4. animals 5. palaces and temples 6. bamboos and stones

13. CHINESE ARCHITECTURE is typified by various features such as bilateral symmetry, use of enclosed open spaces, the incorporation of ideas related to feng shui such as directional hierarchies, a horizontal emphasis, and allusion to various cosmological, mythological, or other symbolism. Chinese architecture traditionally classifies structures according to type, ranging from pagodas to palaces.

14. CHINESE ARCHITECTURE East Asian temples and houses have sweeping roofs because people believe that those roofs will protect them from the elements of water, wind, and fire. Buddhists believe that the roofs helped ward off evil spirits which were deemed to be straight lines. The figure at the tips are called roof guards.

15. three main types of roofs in traditional Chinese architecture 1. Straight inclined is a type of roof in traditional Chinese architecture which is more economical for common Chinese architecture.

16. three main types of roofs in traditional Chinese architecture 2. Multi-inclined is a roof with two or more sections inclined. These roofs are used for residences of wealthy Chinese.

17. three main types of roofs in traditional Chinese architecture 3. Sweeping is a type of roof that has curves that rise at its corners. These roofs are usually reserved for temples and palaces although these may also be found in the homes of the wealthy Chinese. Originally, the ridges of the roofs are usually highly decorated with ceramic figurines.

18. CHINESE THEATRICAL FORM Peking opera face painting or Jingju lianpu - The hero type characters are normally painted in relatively simple colors, whereas enemies, bandits, rebels, and others have more complicated designs on their faces

19. PAPER ARTS OF CHINA Paper was first invented by Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. It is one of the greatest contributions of ancient China in the development of arts. The earliest document showing paper folding is a picture of a small paper boat in edition of Tractus de Sphaera Mundi from 1490 by Johannes de Sacrobosco .

20. PAPER ARTS OF CHINA Decorative Chinese paper cuttings are usually symmetrical in design when unfolded and adapt the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac as themes and motifs and mostly choose the red color.

21. PAPER ARTS OF CHINA Jianzhi is the first type of papercutting design, since paper was invented by Chinese. The cutouts are also used to decorate doors and windows. They are sometimes referred to as chuāng huā , meaning “window flower ”

22. CHINESE KITE MAKING A kite is an assembled or joined aircraft that was traditionally made of silk or paper with bowline and a resilient bamboo. Chinese kites may be differentiated into four main categories: 1. centipede 2. hard-winged kites 3. soft-winged kites 4. flat kites

23. CHINESE KNOT TYING The Zhongguo is a kind of art knotting. Chinese knotting is a decorative handicraft arts that originated as a form of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) in China.

24. Activity #1 Complete the sentence below