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Important Aspects in EastAsian Painting

Landscape Painting -regarded as the highest form of chinese painting.

Yin – dark/Moon

Yang – Light/Bright

Cai Lun – invented paper in the 1 st century AD

Shutousansui-zu Sesshu – winter landscape

Daoist – aspect of chinese painting

Six Principles of Chinese Painting Established by Xie He

1. Observe rhythm and movement

2. Live spaces for the eyes to rest

3. Use brush in calligraphy

4. Use colors correctly

5. Live up to tradition by copying the master’s artwork.

6. Copy the correct proportion of the object and nature.

Korean Painting – datrs to 108 CE, first appears as an independent form.

Calligraphy – art of beautiful handwriting.

•VERTICAL SCROLL

•LACQUERWARE

•ALBUM-LEAF

•HORIZONTAL SCROLL
Sweeping Roofs

Roof Guards – they believe that it help ward off evil spirit.

Traditional Chinese architecture that influenced other Asian architecture:

1. Straight inclined – more economical for our chinese architecture.

2. Multi-inclined – it had two or more section inclined.

3. Sweeping – it have curves that rise at the corners of the roof.

Woodblock printing – technique for printing text, images, I patterns used widely throughout East Asia.

Japanese Ukiyo-e – which means “pictures of the floating world”

Peking Opera – face painting or jingju lianpu. Lianpu is called the false mask.

MEANING OF COLORS IN FACE PAINTING

Guan Ju – (Red) indicate devotion, courage, bravery, uprightness, and loyalty

Huang Pang – (Yellow) signifies fierceness, ambition, and cool headedness.

Zhu Wen – (Green) tells the audience that the character is not only impulsive and violent but also lack
self-restraint.

Zhang Fei – (Black) symbolizes roughness and fierceness


Lian Po – (Purple) stands for uprightness and cool headedness with a reddish purple face indicate just
and noble character.

Cao-cao – (White) suggest treachery, suspiciousness, and craftiness.

Jian Gan – (Clown or chou) in China’s opera has special makeup patterns called xiaohualian (the painted
face)

KABUKI MAKEUP OF JAPAN

-Kabuki makeup or kesho it’s already in itself and interpretation of the actors own roll through the
medium of the facial features.

Kabuki makeup is also another way of face painting which has two types:

1. Standard makeup – applied to most actors.

2. Kumadori makeup – applied the villains and heroes

VERY DRAMATIC LINES AND SHAPES USING COLOR THE REPRESENT CERTAIN QUALITIES

•dark red – passion or anger

•dark blue – depression or sadness

•pink – youth

•light green -calm

•black – fear

•purple – nabality

Traditional funerals in good burning Yuanbao which is a folded paper that look like gold nuggets or
ingots called sycee. This is also used for other ceremonial practices.

Origami
The term origami came from “ori” meaning “folding” and “kami” meaning “paper”.

Origami butterflies were you a student celebration of Shinto wedding store represent the bride and
groom.

Chinese people got things are usually symmetrical in design when unfolded and depth that will animals
of China as Dems and motives and mostly choose the red colors.

Jianzhi it’s the first type of paper cutting design, since paper was invented by the Chinese. We are
sometimes preferred to as chuāng huā, meaning “window flower.”

Kite Making

A Kite is an assembled or joined across that was traditionally made of silk or paper with the bowline and
a resilient bamboo.

Training skies maybe differentiated into forming categories:

1. Centipede

2. Hard-winged kites

3. Soft-winged kites

4. Flat kites

Zhongguo is the Chinese decorative handicraft art that begin as a form of Chinese food art in the Tang
and Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD) in China.

Knot typing is called hanamusubi. It emphasizes on braids and focuses on individual knots.

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