ARTS: EAST ASIA

LESSON 1: PAINTINGS
 PAINTING IN JAPAN
SUBJECTS/THEMES
 Scenes from everyday
life.
Narrative scenes
crowded with figures
and details.
 JAPANESE Ukiyo-e
 Best known art and most popular style of
Japanese Art.
 Ukiyo-e - is Japanese for "pictures of the
floating world”.
 Subjects are narratives from history,
landscapes, townscapes and everyday living.
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.
 TWO TYPES OF KABUKI
MAKE UP
 Standard Make-up – applied to
most actors.
 Kumadori Make-up - applied to
villains and heroes
 Kumadori Make-up
 dark red - passion or anger
 dark blue - depression or sadness
 pink - youth
 light green - calm
 black - fear
 purple - nobility
Mukimi-guma or Suji-guma
 The lines are painted onto an
actor’s face. These are then
smudged to soften them.
 The makeup and perfume
worn throughout performances
were highly significant to the
stories that were being told.
KUMADORI – the painted faces of
Japanese Kabuki theater
 PAINTING IN CHINA
SUBJECTS/THEMES
 Flowers and birds
 Human Figures
 Landscapes
 Animals
 Palaces and Temples
 Bamboos and Stones
 LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN
CHINA
Regarded as the highest form of
Chinese painting.
They also consider the three concepts of
their arts: Nature, Heaven and
Humankind (Yin-Yang).
LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN
CHINA
 LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN
CHINA
 Cai Lun – A court Eunuch
who invented the paper in
the 1st Century AD. It
provided not only a cheap
and widespread medium for
writing but painting became
more economical.
 SIX PRINCIPLES OF CHINESE
PAINTING
1. Observe rhythm and movements
2. Leave 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 objects and nature.
 CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY
 To the Chinese, calligraphy is the art of
beautiful handwriting.
 Traditional painting involves essentially
the same techniques as calligraphy and is
done with a brush dipped in black or colored
ink; oils are not used.
CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY
 CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY
 Did you know that the earliest known
Chinese logographs (ancient writing symbols)
are engraved on the shoulder bones of large
animals and on tortoise shells?
 The script found on these objects is
commonly called jiaguwen, or shell-and-bone
script.
Three main types of roofs in traditional
Chinese architecture

STRAIGHT-INCLINED
 More economical
for common Chinese
architecture.
Three main types of roofs in traditional
Chinese architecture
MULTI-INCLINED
 Roofs with two or
more sections of
incline. These roofs are
used for residences of
wealthy Chinese.
 Three main types of roofs in traditional
Chinese architecture
SWEEPING
 Has curves that rise at the
corners of the roof. These are
usually reserved for temples
and palaces although it may
also be found in the homes of
the wealthy
 Peking opera face-painting (Jingju
Lianpu)
 Done with different colors in accordance
with the performing characters’ personality
and historical assessment.
 Hero type characters - are normally
painted in relatively simple colors.
 Enemies, bandits, rebels and others - have
more complicated designs on their faces.
MEANING OF COLORS FOR FACE
PAINTING
Zhu Wen - A green face tells the
Guan Ju - Red indicates
audience that the character is
devotion, courage, bravery, not only impulsive and violent,
uprightness and loyalty. he also lacks self-restraint.

Huang Pang - Yellow Zhang Fei - Black symbolizes

roughness and fierceness. The
signifies fierceness, black face indicates either a
ambition and cool- rough and bold character or an
headedness. impartial and selfless personality
MEANING OF COLORS FOR FACE
PAINTING
Lian Po - Purple stands for
uprightness and cool-
Jiang Gan - The clown or chou in
headedness. While a reddish Chinese Opera has special
purple face indicates a just makeup patterns called
and noble character. xiaohualian (the petty painted
face). Sometimes a small patch
of chalk is painted around the
Cao Cao - white suggests nose to show a mean and
treachery, suspiciousness and secretive character. At times,
craftiness. It is common to see the xiaohualian is also painted
on a young page or jesting to
the white face of the powerful enliven up the performance
villain on stage.
 PAINTING IN KOREA
SUBJECTS/THEMES
 Landscape paintings
 Minhwa (the traditional folk painting)
 Four Gracious Plants (plum blossoms,
orchids or wild orchids,
chrysanthemums)
 Bamboo
 Portraits
PAINTING IN KOREA
 KOREA MASK
 Korean masks, called tal or t'al, originated with
religious meaning just like the masks of other countries
which also have religious or artistic origins.
 They use it in funeral services to help banish evil spirits
and theatre plays dating back to the prehistoric age.
 Masks were also used for shamanistic rites and were
kept within temples where they were honored with
offerings.
 Roles of Colors in
Korean Mask
1. Black, Red and White – Bright and vibrant colors that
help establish the age and race of the figure
2. Half Red and Half White mask - symbolize 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.
KOREAN TRADITIONAL
PAINTED MASK
PRINT ME A MESSAGE!
Instruction: Write your
selected verse or message in
calligraphy. Add your
nickname at the bottom of the
page with the use of a Chinese
brush and watercolor.
LESSON 2: PAPER ARTS AND
KNOT TYING
 PAPER ART (JAPAN)
ORIGAMI
 The term Origami came from
“ori” meaning "folding", and
“kami” meaning "paper".
 It is the traditional Japanese art
of paper folding.
 PAPER ART (JAPAN)
 The goal of origami art is to
transform a flat sheet of paper into a
finished sculpture through folding
and sculpting techniques without
cutting as much as possible.
 PAPER ART (JAPAN)
Origami butterflies
 Were used during the
celebration of Shinto
weddings to represent
the bride and groom.
 PAPER ART (JAPAN)
 Flowers, animals, birds,
fish, geometric shapes and
dolls are the common models
used in Japanese Origami.
 PAPER ART (JAPAN)
 The best known
Origami in Japanese
Origami is the
Paper Crane.
 KNOT TYING (JAPAN)
Hanamusubi
It emphasizes on
braids and focuses
on individual knots.
FOLK ARTS OF CHINA

PAPER CUT PAPER FOLDING

CHINESE KNOTS PAPER KITES

 PAPER CUT (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.
 PAPER CUT (CHINA)
 Jianzhi is the first type of
paper cutting design, since
paper was invented by the
Chinese.
They are sometimes referred
to "chuāng huā", meaning
Window Flower.
 CHINESE KNOTS (CHINA)
Zhongguo
 It is the Chinese decorative
handicraft art that began as a
form of Chinese folk art in
the Tang and Song Dynasty
(960-1279 AD) in China.
 PAPER FOLD (CHINA)
 The earliest document showing
paper folding is a picture of a
small paper boat in an edition of
Tractatus de Sphaera Mundi from
1490 by Johannes de Sacrobosco.
 PAPER FOLD (CHINA)
 In China, traditional
funerals include burning
yuanbao which is a
folded paper that look like
gold nuggets or ingots
called Sycee.
 PAPER FOLD (CHINA)
SYCEE
 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.”
 PAPER FOLD (CHINA)
GOLD PAPER FOLDED TO
LOOK LIKE SYCEE
 Today, imitation gold sycees
are used as a symbol of
prosperity by Chinese and are
frequently displayed during the
Chinese New Year.
 PAPER KITES (CHINA)
 A kite is an assembled or
joined aircraft that was
traditionally made of silk or
paper with a bowline and a
resilient bamboo.
 PAPER KITES (CHINA)
 Chinese Kites originated in WeiFang,
Sandong, China was the capital city of
kites during the Song Dynasty (960-
1279), and by the Ming Dynasty (1368–
1644). Since 1984 the city is hosting the
largest international kite festival on earth.
 4 MAIN CATEGORIES OF PAPER
KITES
1. Centipede
2. Hard-Winged Kites
3. Soft-Winged Kites
4. Flat Kites
 KNOT TYING (KOREA)
 In Korea, decorative
knotwork is known as
“Maedeup” or called
“Dorae” or double
connection knot, often called
Korean knot work or Korean
knots.
 ASSESSMENT! (SHORT QUIZ)
1. It is the traditional Japanese paper
art folding.
2.What is the term used for Chinese
knots?
3.A type of silver or gold ingot
currency used in China.
 ASSESSMENT! (SHORT QUIZ)
4. It is also known as the art of a
beautiful hand writing.
5. The court Eunuch who invented
the paper in the 1st Century AD.
6. It is also known as tal or t’al.
 ASSESSMENT! (SHORT QUIZ)
7. Jianzi are sometimes
referred to "chuāng huā",
which means _____.
8. What do you call to the knot
tying in Japan?
 ASSESSMENT! (SHORT QUIZ)
9. It is the best Origami in
Japanese Origami.
10. What are the mostly used
themes and motifs of Chinese
paper cut?
 ASSESSMENT! (SHORT QUIZ)
11-13. Give the 3 types of
traditional Chinese
architecture.
14-15. Give atleast 2 Categories
of Paper Kite in China
 ASSIGNMENT!
PAPER CUT/PAPER FOLDING
 Make an artwork out of colored or
recycled paper and make their your own
design of paper cutting based from the
subjects of East Asian Arts.
 Make your own Sycee design (paper
folding).
 References
ADM in ARTS 8 (DEPED)
 Learning Material (MAPEH 8)
YUANBAO GHOST FESTIVAL - Bing images

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinesischer_Goldbarren.JPG

KITES IN CHINA CENTEPEDE - Bing images

KITES IN CHINA HARD-WINGED - Bing images
KITES IN CHINA SOFT-WINGED - Bing images FLAT KITES IN CHINA - Bing images
 References
EAST ASIAN ARTS - Bing images EAST ASIAN ARTS - Bing images

PAINTING OF KOREA - Bing images PAINTING OF CHINA - Bing images

ORIGAMI IN JAPAN - Bing images KNOT TYING IN CHINA - Bing images

PAPER KYTE IN CHINA - Bing images japan flag - Bing images

sample painting in japan - Bing images japanese ARTS OF KNOT TYING - Bing images

japanese ukiyo-e painting - Bing images FLAG OF CHINA - Bing images

cai lun invented paper - Bing images MINHWA OF KOREA TRADITIONAL - Bing images

FOUR GRACIOUS PLANTS IN PAINTING OF KOREA - Bing images

LANDSCAPE PAINTING OF KOREA TRADITIONAL - Bing images WINDOW FLOWERS PAPER CUT OF CHINA - Bing images
CHINESE WINDOW FLOWERS PAPER CUT - Bing images