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Asian Arts
Characteristics
It shows culture and history of the country where it is from.
It focuses more on the natural and spiritual.
There are 2 countries highlighted in this era: China and India
Chinese Art
Characteristics
Forms of art have been influenced by great philosophers, teachers, religious figures and even political leaders.
Divided into periods by the ruling dynasties.
Historical Development
221 BC
Chinese ArtEarly forms of art in China were made from pottery and jade in the
Neolithic period ceramics were unpainted and most often cord-marked.
Banpo (1953) discovered at the Yellow River Valley
The Bronze Age in China began with the Xia Dynasty.
Shang Dynasty has more elaborate objects, including many ritual vessels that were crafted.
The most common motif in the Zhou Dynasty is the taotie, which shows a mythological being presented frontally as though squashed onto a horizontal plane to form a symmetrical design.
Bronze jue (wine
vessel)
Ding from late Zhou Dynasty
Early Imperial
China (221 BC–AD 220)
In early imperial China, porcelain was introduced and was refined to the point that in English the word china has become synonymous with high-quality porcelain. Around the 1st century AD, Buddhism arrived in China, though it did not become popular until the 4th century.
Qin Dynasty The Terracotta Army, inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin
Emperor, consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terra-
cotta figures of warriors and horses buried with the self-
proclaimed first Emperor of Qin in 210–209 BC.
The terracotta army belongs to Emperor Qin Shi Huang
and they are there to guard his burial site as well as
protecting the entry to the afterlife. He was the
dynasty Emperor who managed to unify China so that it
became a central state and it was also because of him
that the foundations of the great wall were laid down.
Terracotta Army
•The Han Dynasty was known for jade burial suits.
A Han Dynasty Jade burial suit at the National Museum of
China, Beijing
Buddhist architecture and sculpture thrived in the Sui and Tang dynasty. Of which, the Tang Dynasty was particularly open to foreign influence. Buddhist sculpture returned to a classical form, inspired by Indian art of the Gupta period. Towards the late Tang dynasty, all foreign religions were outlawed to support Taoism.
Paintings in traditional style involved the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink.
In the Tang Dynasty , the primary subject matter of paintings was the landscapes known as shanshui (mountain water) painting.
These landscapes are usually monochromatic and sparse. Its purpose is to grasp an emotion or atmosphere so as to catch the rhythm of nature.
Shanshui
An anchorite, by Dai Jin
In the Song Dynasty, poetry was marked by a lyric poetry known as Ci (詞 ) which expressed feelings of desire, often in an adopted persona. Also in the Song dynasty, paintings of more subtle expression of landscapes appeared, with blurred outlines and mountain contours which conveyed distance through an impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena. It was during this period that in painting, emphasis was placed on spiritual rather than emotional elements, as in the previous period.
Late imperial China (1368–1911)•Under the Ming dynasty, Chinese culture bloomed.
•Narrative painting, with a wider color range and a much busier composition than the Song paintings, was immensely popular during the time.
•European culture began to make an impact on Chinese art during this period.
Art TypesChinese folk artLiteratureVisual ArtChinese musicPerforming artsArchitecture
Chinese folk art
Literature
Visual art
Chinese Music
Performing Arts
Architecture
Indian Art 3rd millennium BC
Indian art can be classified into specific periods each reflecting particular religious, political and cultural developments.
To viewers schooled in the Western tradition, Indian art may seem overly ornate and sensuous
The earliest examples are petroglyphs
Bhimbetka rock painting, Madhya Pradesh, India (c. 30,000 years old)
Indian Painting
Mural Painting or Indian
Fresco
Mughal Painting
Mural Painting
Bhimbetka, 1500-2000BC
Mughal Painting
Raja Ravi Varma's Shakuntala
Babur Receives a Courtier, 1589, by Farrukh Baig
Indian SculptureBronze and stones were commonly used.
During the 2nd to 1st century BCE in far northern India, sculptures became more explicit, representing episodes of the Buddha’s life and teachings.
Bronze Statue of Nataraja
Apsara (10th AD)
Another of the most popular art forms is called Rangoli.
Rangoli Design
Rangoli is a form of sand
painting decoration that uses
finely ground white powder
and colors, and is commonly
used outside homes.
Indian Rock –art architecture
Panoramic view of relief sculpture at Mahabalipuram,
a World Heritage Site
Varaha Vave Temple(late 7th century)
Architecture
Ellora Cave
The temple complex at Khajuraho—adhering to the shikhara temple style architecture
Akshardham Temple in Delhi completed in 2005
Taj Mahal
It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage".
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 beliefs but also the procedures by
which the relationship of the symbols and the
spiritual states were worked out in detail.