Asian Paintings and Sculptures

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Chinese Painting(History)

•We were very sorry for we don’t have any concrete time when did chinese painting started the chinese painting

•403-221b.c.

Chinese Painting

•one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world.

•Earliest paintings were ornamental, not representational

• they consisted of pattern or designs, not pictures.

Kinds of Chinese Painting

Meticulous (Gong bi)

often referred to as "court-style" painting

Freehand style (Shui mo)

loosely termed watercolour or brush painting. The Chinese character "mo" means ink and "shui" means water. This style is also referred to as "xie yi" or freehand style.

Examples

Wall scroll painted by Ma Lin in 1246.

Ink on silk, 110.5 cm wide.

Painting from the Eastern Han Dynasty

(25–220 AD),

Chinese sculpture

• Chinese sculptors have sculpted delicate objects– figures, – animals, – plants and – Landscape

• The materials used– sand and coal, – bronze and jade .

• Many of the works have become precious artistic pearls in the treasure house of Chinese art.

Examples are

Giant Stone Buddha718

Terraccota warriors

Indian painting

• The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of pre-historic times, the petroglyphs as found in places like Bhimbetka, and some of them are older than 5500 BC..

Types of Indian painting

• Miniature painting

• Madhubani painting

• Rajput painting

• Mughal painting

• Mysore painting

• Tanjore painting

Examples

Fresco from Ajanta 6th centuryRadha 1650

Sculpture

• It started in the 1st – 2nd century B.C.E.

• some based their sculpture to their religion

Examples

Shiva Chola dynasty

Bhudevi

Japanese painting

• The origins of painting in Japan date well back into Japan's prehistoric period. Simple stick figures and geometric designs can be found on Jōmon period pottery and Yayoi period(300 BC – 300 AD) dotaku bronze bells. Mural paintings with both geometric and figurative designs have been found in numerous tumulus from the Kofun period (300-700 AD).

Examples

Pine trees1610

Takamatzuka mural tomb paintingAzuka period

Sculpture

• started from the clay figure. Japanese sculpture received the influence of the Sil Road culture in the 5th century, and received a strong influence from Chines sculpture afterwards. The influence of the Western world was received since the Meiji era.

Example

Rongo Rishiki