ARTS Quarter 2

East Asian Art

 PRAYER
Dear God,
Today

I give you all of me,

All of my situations,
All of my stress,
All of my anxiety,
All of my fears,
Please guide my way
And give me your peace.
In Jesus’ name
Amen
Painting in China, Japan,
and Korea

Seven Elements of
Arts
 Line
 These marks span a distance between points and can be
straight or curved. They can be also be implied or abstract.
Whether two-dimensional or three-dimensional, there’s only
no denying that lines have a huge impact on the rest of the
elements of art.

 They can be used to create shape and form, as well as give

sense of depth and structure. Lines are foundation of drawing
and are a powerful too, unto them. Using different types of
lines-continuous, broken, vertical, jagged, horizontal-
drastically changes the psychology of an artwork, impacting
the viewer greatly.
 Color
 By working with huge, value, and intensity-three
building blocks of colors-artists can tap into a
wide range of emotions. There’s nothing that
changes an artwork’s emotional impact more than
color.
 Color can be used symbolically or to create a
pattern. It can be selected for contrast or to set a
specific mood. A deep understanding of color
theory helps any artist make better use of the
colors they have at their disposal.
 Shape
 The result of closed lines, shapes are two-
dimensional, flat, and only have height and width.
Geometric shapes like circles and squares are
mathematical and precise, while organic shapes
take cues fro nature and tend to be curved and
abstract.
 Shapes can be used to control how we perceive a
composition. For instance, triangles can help draw
the eye to a particular point, while circles
represent continuity.
 Form
 When a shape acquires depth and becomes
three-dimensional, then it was of form.
Cylinders, pyramids, and spheres are some of
the common forms, thought they can also be
amorphous. In sculpture, form is the utmost
importance, though it can easily be introduced
into drawing and painting using 3D art
techniques.
 Value
• Related color, value is the lightness and
darkness of a color. The lightest value is white
and the darkest value is black, with difference
between them defined as the contrast. Playing
with value can not only change certain forms,
but also influence the mood of the artwork
 Space
• This element of art be manipulated based on how an artist
places lines, shapes, forms and color. The placement of these
other elements creates space. Space can be either positive or
negative.
• Positive space is an area occupied by an object of form.
• Negative space is an area that runs between, through, around,
or within objects.
• Artist often think about the foreground, middle ground, and
background of their artwork, purposefully placing shapes and
lines throughout the space to achieve the perfect composition.
A sense of depth in two-dimensional works is often achieved by
perspective, which itself can rely on lines or colors.
 Texture
• Texture is an element of art that also plays to
our sense of touch. It’s defined as a
description of the way something feels or
looks like it would feel. Other times, the
texture is an implied visual texture that is two-
dimensional. Smooth, rough, hard, soft, furry,
and bumpy are just some different texture
that evoke different responses.
 Painting
 Started from pre-historic man.
 They used red ochre and black pigment.
 Early painting often showed hunting scenes of human chasing various
animals such as : horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffaloes, mammoths.
These prehistoric paintings were drawn on the walls of caves, block
of stones, etc, and found all over the world, including China.
 The history of Eastern painting is as old as the civilization of China. It
is historically comparable to western painting. Eastern countries
continued to influence other’s production of arts over the countries.
 CHINA
Painting Subject or Themes

1. Flowers and birds

2. Landscapes
3. Palaces and Temples
4. Human Figures
5. Animals
6. Bamboo and Stones
 JAPAN
Painting Subject or Themes

1. Scenes from everyday life

2. Narrative scenes crowded with figures and
details
 SOUTH KOREA
NORTH KOREA
Subjects are divided into five categories:

1. Landscapes paintings
2. Minhwa ( the traditional folk painting)
3. Four Gracious Plant (plum, blossoms, orchids
or wild orchid chrysanthemums
4. bamboo
5. Portraits
 Important aspects in East Asian Painting:
Landscape Painting – It was regarded as the
highest form of Chinese paintings.

 They also consider the three concepts of their

arts: Earth, Heaven and Humankind (Yin-Yang).
Chinese society is basically agricultural. It has
always laid great stress on understanding the
pattern of nature and living in accordance with it.

 Oriental artist often created landscapes rather

than paintings with the human figures as subjects.

 Chines Landscape Painting

Silk – It was often used as the
medium to paint upon, but it was
quite expensive.

 When the Han court eunuch, Cai

Lun, invented the paper in the 1st
Century AD, it provided not only
a cheap and widespread medium
for writing, but painting also
become more economical.

 Xuan-paper on silk painting

 Ideologies – The ideologies of Confucianism,
Daoism, and Buddhism played important roles in
East Asian art.
 Chinese art expresses the human understanding of
the relationship between nature and human. Its is
evident in the form of painting of landscapes,
bamboo, birds, and flowers, etc. This called the
metaphysical – the Daoist aspects of Chinese
paintings.
 Xie He who was a writer, art historian and critic in
5th century China established the Six Principles of
Chinese Paintings
1. Observe rhythm and movements.
2. Leave spaces for the eyes to rest
3. Use brush in calligraphy – it is the art of
beautiful handwriting.
4. Live colors correctly
5. Live up to tradition by copying the master’s
artwork.
6. Copy the correct proportion of the objects and
nature.
 Korean Paintings’ History

 Its dates to 108 C.E. It has first appeared as an

independent form. It is said that until the
Joseon dynasty, the primary influence of
Korean painting were Chinese paintings.
 However, Korean paintings have subjects such
as landscapes, facial features, Buddhist topics.
 Also, it has an emphasis on celestial
observation in keeping with the rapid
development of Korean astronomy.

 Mountain and Water are important features

in Korean landscape painting. It is a site for
building temples and buildings
 Landscape painting represents both a
portrayal of nature itself and a codified
illustration of the human view of nature and
the world.
 Theatrical forms
 The performers from China and Japan usually
paint faces depending on the character or
personification they are portraying. So aside
from painting on silk, paper, and printing on
wood. Chinese and Japanese also painted
their face and Koreans painted mask for
theatrical and festival performances.
 Peking opera face painting
 Or jinju lianpu is done with different colors in
accordance with the performing character’s
personality and historical assessment. The hero type
characters are normally painted in relatively simple
colors, whereas enemies, bandits, rebels, and others
have more complicated designs on their faces.
 It is traditional special way of make up in Chinese
operas in pursuit of the expected effect of
performance.
 Originally, lianpu is called the false mask.
 Kabuki Make – up of Japan
• Kabuki makeup or Kesho is already
in itself an interpretation of the
actor’s own role through
the medium of the facial features.
―On stage, this interpretation
becomes a temporalization of
makeup in collaboration with the
audience.
The result is a decoding of the drama
traced out in the graphic designs of
the painted face
 Two Types of Kabuki Makeup
1. Standard Makeup – It is applied to most actor

2. Kumadori Makeup – It is applied to villains and horses. It is composed

of very dramatic lines and shapes using that represent certain
qualities.
 dark color – passion or anger
 dark blue – depression or sadness
 pink – youth
 light green – calm
 black – fear
 purple - nobility
 Korean Mask
 Tal or T’al – It is the Korean mask. It
originated with religious meaning and has a
rich history. It is used in funeral services to
help banish evil spirit and theatre plays. It is
also used for shamanistic rites and were kept
within temples where they were honored
with offerings.
 In the 12th century, mask become part of
elaborate dances and dramas. Some mask
have moving parts like winking or shifting
eyes and moving mouths. Black fabric is
draped from the top of the mask over the
wearer’s head to simulate hair. This is further
add to the lifelike features of the masks.
 The Roles of Colors in Korean Mask
1. Black, Red and white Mask – Bright and vibrant colors help
establish the age and race of the figure.

2. Half Red and Half White Mask – It symbolizes the idea that
the wearer has two fathers, Mr. red and Mr. White

3. Dark-faced mask- indicates that the character was born of

an adulterous mother
 Paper Arts
 Paper has a great function in the development
of arts not only in East Asia but all over the
world.

 Was first invented by Cai Lun of the Eastern

Han Dynasty in China. This was one of the
greatest contributions of ancient China in the
development of arts
 A paper art of china includes paper cut, Chinese knots,
and paper folding and paper kites.
 A picture of a small paper boat – the earliest document
showing paper folding in an edition of Tractatus de
Sphaera Mundi from 1490 by Johannes de Sacrobosco.
 Burning yuanbao – in China, traditional funerals which is
a folded paper that look like gold nuggets or ingots called
sycee. This kind of burning is commonly done at their
ancestors graves during the Ghost Festival
 Sycee – is a type of silver or gold ingot currency used in
China until the 20th century. The name is derived from the
Cantonese words meaning “fine silk”.
 Origami
 The term came from “ori” which means “folding”, and “kami”
means “paper”. The traditional Japanese art of paper folding started
in the 17th century AD and was popularized internationally in the
mid-1900s. It eventually evolved into a modern art form.
 The goal of this is to transform a flat sheet of paper into a finished
sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques without cutting
as much as possible.
 It become a significant aspect of Japanese ceremonies by the Heian
period (794-1185) in Japanese history. Flowers, animals, birds, fish,
geometric shapes, and dolls are the common models used in
Japanese Origami.
 Origami Butterflies – It is used during the
celebration of Shinto wedding to represents
the bride and groom

 Paper Crane – It is best known as the Japanese

Origami
 Decorative Chinese paper cutting
 Are usually symmetric in design when unfolded and adapt the 12 animals
of the Chinese Zodiac as themes and motifs and mostly choose the red
color.
 The earliest use of paper was as a pattern for lacquers, decoration on
windows, doors, and walls
 Chinese Buddhist believe that hanging “Window flowers” or decorative
paper cuttings, like pagodas and other symbols of Good Luck, attract
good luck and drive evil spirits
 The process of paper cutting is aided by a pair of scissors of knife and
others sharp flat cutters.
 Jianzhi – is the first type of paper cutting
design, since paper was invented by the
Chinese. The cut outs are also used to
decorate doors and windows. They are some
sometimes referred to as chuang hua,
meaning “window flower”.
 Kite Making
 A kite is an assembled or joined aircraft
that was traditionally made of silk or paper
with a bowline and resilient bamboo
 Chinese kites can be originated in Wei Fang
Sandong, China was the capital city of kites
during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and
by the Ming Dynasty (1368-1640). Sine
1984 the city has been hosting the largest
international kite festival on Earth.
 The famous 5th century BC Chinese
philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban were said
to be the inventor of Kites.
 Korean Knotting
Maedeup or Dorae
 It is the well known Korean knot tying.
 It is a double connection knot, often called as
Korean knot work or Korean knots.
 It is made of threads
 Chinese Knotting
Zhongguo
 The Chinese decorative handicrafts art that begun as a form
of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song Dynasty (960-1279
AD) in China.
 Japanese Knotting
Hanamusubi

 It is Japan’s knot tying

 It emphasize on braids and
focuses on individual
knots.
1. The traditional folk painting of Korea
a. Calligraphy b. Minhwa c. Mundi d. Ukiyo-e

2. What is the darkness or lightness of a color called?

a. Balance b. Color c. Contrast d. Value

3. This is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding

a. Calligraphy b. Jianzhi c. Mundi d. Origami

4. Paper was first invented by _______of the Eastern Han dynasty in China
a. Cai Lun b. Cangie c. Lun Ty d. Wei Fang

5. Knot tying in Japan is called hanamusubi and in China is___________.

a. Dorae b. Kesho c. Maedeup d. Zhongguo
 key
1. b - Minhwa
2. d - Value
3. d - Origami
4. a – Cai Lun
5. c - Zhonnguo
 Arts Activity : Paper Cutting
 Make an artwork out of the recycled paper and make your own design.
(see the sample below)

Materials:
recycled papers
cutter or pair of scissors
paste or glue (optional)
bond paper (paste on it-optional)