East Asian Countries

China
Japan
Korea
South
North
Mongolia
Taiwan




China

Flowers and
birds.
Human
Figures
Landscapes
Animals
Palaces and
Temples
Bamboos
and Stones




Scenes from
everyday life

o Narrative scenes
crowded with
figures and details



landscape
paintings
Minhwa (the
traditional folk
painting)
Four Gracious
Plants (plum
blossoms, orchids
or wild orchids,
chrysanthemums
)
bamboo
portraits


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Important aspects in East Asian
Painting:
Landscape painting was regarded
as the
highest form of Chinese painting.
Nature
Heaven 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. Oriental
artists often created landscapes
rather than paintings with the
human figure as subjects.



























































































Silk 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
became more economical.
Chinese art expresses the human
understanding of the relationship
between nature and human. 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




















Six Principles of Chinese
Painting
Xie He,
Observe rhythm and movements
Leave spaces for the eyes to rest
Use brush in calligraphy

Use colors correctly

Live up to tradition by copying
the masters artwork.
Copy the correct proportion of
the objects and nature


East Asian temples
have sweeping roofs
because____________
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