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Topic: Arts of East Asia

Learning Competencies & Code:
1. reflect on and derive the mood, idea or message from selected
artifacts and art objects- A8PL-IIh-1
2. trace the external (foreign) and internal (indigenous) influences
that are reflected in the design of an artwork and in the making
of a craft- A8PL-IIh-4
Concept:
History of Arts of East Asia (China, Japan & Korea)
The region of East Asia encompasses modern China, Mongolia, Japan, and Korea. Given that these
nations share much cultural material, they can be referred to collectively as East Asian civilization.
The primary source of this shared cultural material is historic China; thus, the foundation of East
Asian civilization is Chinese civilization, and the essentials of East Asian art may be conveyed by
summarizing the art of historic China.
The ideologies of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism played important roles in East Asian art.
CHINA
Poet on a Mountaintop is a painting by the
Ming Dynasty artist Shen Zhou
Chinese art expresses the human understanding
A painting portraying
of the relationship between nature and human.
a beautiful
This is evident in the form of painting of mountainous
landscapes, bamboo, birds, and flowers, etc. landscape. On the left
This might be called the metaphysical, Daoist side of the painting,
Zhou included a poem
aspect of Chinese painting. describing the
magnificence of the
JAPAN nature being
displayed.
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text,
images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia. This
was originated in China and adapted in Japan during the
Edo period (1603-1867) and became one of their oldest
and most highly developed visual arts.

Evening Bell at Mii Temple is another print which

features the mountain skyline so popular in Japanese
and Chinese art, which bear many similarities,
matching the link between their own respective
histories. Hiroshige concentrated on greens and shades
of grey and black within this work.
 KOREA
Beautiful Landscape
Painting by Korean
The history of Korean painting
Artist Oh Neung Ju
aka Songjae. dates to 108 C.E., when it first
appears as an independent form. It
For centuries in Korea,
a rendering of a is said that until the Joseon dynasty
mountain and river the primary influence of Korean
(called Sansu in
paintings were Chinese paintings.
Korean)
Mountain and Water are important
Heaven, Earth, and Humanity are represented, by the
features in Korean landscape
mountain, river, and human figures.
painting because it is a site for
Activity 1: Trace My Origin and Design
building temples and buildings
Using the Venn diagram below, compare and contrast the origin arts of China, Japan, & Korea and
also their influence and theme of their paintings.

CHINA JAPAN

KOREA
Activity 2: Time to Reflect

Interpret the picture below and describe what mood, idea, and message it depicts.

Mood:
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Idea:

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Message:

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Prepared by:
Cherry Ann P. Orbita
MAPEH-8 Teacher