Department of Education

Division of Camarines Sur

AGDANGAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

MAPEH 8
LAS
(ARTS)

Submitted:

GILBERT B.BABOL T-I

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Name of Learner/Pangalan:___________________________________________________
Grade Level/Lebel:__________________________________________________________
Section/Seksiyon:__________________________________________________________
Date/Petsa:_______________________________________________________________

Grade 8 Worksheet No.1

ARTS Painting in China, Japan, and Korea
QUARTER 2
MELCs:
• Identifies characteristics of arts and crafts in specific countries in East Asia: China
(Chinese painting and calligraphy); Japan (origami, woodblock printing, theater
masks, face painting, and anime and manga); and Korea (theater masks, drums,
and K-pop)

EXPLORE:
“Travel to East Asia”

Identify which country the paintings belong the choices are: China, Japan, Korea. Write your answer
on a clean sheet of paper.

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MOTIVATION: Painting is the highest form of Art in East Asia. If you will be asked to paint or draw what
would you paint/draw?
The objects or items usually put into paintings are called:
• Subject
• Themes
• Motifs
these can be animals, people, landscapes or anything about the environment
Identify the subjects of the paintings below. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper. (preferably ¼)

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LEARN
LESSON 1: PAINTING IN CHINA, JAPAN, AND KOREA

What do you call the things you are going to paint?

In East Asia, the objects or items that are usually put into paintings are called subjects, themes, or
motifs. These may be about animals, people, landscapes, and anything about the environment.

Read to Ponder:

Did you know that painting started from pre-historic man? He used red ochre and black
pigment. Early paintings often showed hunting scenes of man chasing various animals, such as:
horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffaloes, mammoths. These prehistoric paintings were drawn on the walls
of caves, blocks of stone, etc. and found all over the world, including China.

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The history of Eastern painting is as old as the civilization of China. It is historically comparable to Western
painting. Eastern countries continued to influence each other’s production of arts over the centuries.

COUNTRY PAINTING SUBJECTS OR THEMES

CHINA
1. Flowers and birds
2. Landscapes
3. Palaces and Temples
4. Human Figures
5. Animals
6. Bamboos and Stones
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JAPAN
1. Scenes from everyday life
2. Narrative scenes crowded with figures and details
SOUTH KOREA
NORTH KOREA
Subjects are divided into five categories:
1. Landscape paintings
2. Minhwa (the traditional folk painting)
3. Four Gracious Plants (plum blossoms, orchids or wild orchids, chrysanthemums,
Bamboo)
4. Bamboos
5. Portraits
Important aspects in East Asian Painting:
Chinese Painting
Landscape painting was regarded as the highest form of Chinese painting. They also consider the three
concepts of their arts: 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.
The ideologies of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism played important roles in East Asian art.
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.
To make your painting interesting and realistic apply these Six Principles of Chinese Painting established by Xie
He, a writer, art historian and critic in 5th century China.
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.
Calligraphy- the art of beautiful handwriting usually added in Chinese paintings.
Japanese Painting
Woodblock printing-process of printing text, images and pattern, originated in China as a method of printing on
textile but eventually became a method of printing on textile. One of the oldest and highly developed visual art.
Ukiyo-e, often translated as "pictures of the floating world," refers to Japanese paintings and
woodblock prints that originally depicted the cities' pleasure districts during the Edo Period, when the
sensual attributes of life were encouraged amongst a tranquil existence under the peaceful rule of the
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Shoguns. These idyllic narratives not only document the leisure activities and climate of the era, they
also depict the decidedly Japanese aesthetics of beauty, poetry, nature, spirituality, love, and sex.
Korean Painting
The history of Korean painting dates to 108 C.E., when it first appears as an independent form. It is said that
until the Joseon dynasty the primary influence of Korean paintings were Chinese paintings. However, Korean
paintings have subjects such as landscapes, facial features, Buddhist topics, and an emphasis on celestial
observation in keeping with the rapid development of Korean astronomy.
Mountain and Water are important features in Korean landscape painting because it is a site for
building temples and building.
Painting is indeed one of the highest forms of arts in East Asia. Do people from East Asia use other
materials as canvas for painting? Painting in East Asia do not only apply on paper, silk, and wood. Performers of
kabuki in Japan and peking opera in China use their faces as the canvas for painting while mask painting is done
in Korea.

ENGAGE
“Tell Me The Subject”
Identify the subjects of the paintings below. Write your answer on the blank below each picture.

_______________________ ____________________ ______________________

APPLY:
A. Answer the following questions. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. Based from the Chinese painting characteristics, which of the following painting does not belong to the
group?

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 2. By looking at the Korean painting below how will
you describe it?
a. It tells about the daily living of Koreans
b. It portrays the mountainous terrain of Korea
c. It shows natural habitat of flowers and birds
d. It illustrates the natural scenery of bamboos
and stones
3. Mountains and Rivers are features that are
important in Korean landscape paintings, how were these features related to their culture?
a. They are places where Koreans go to worship
b. They are venues where Korean celebrate religious festival
c. They are tourist spots where Koreans spend their leisure time.
d. They are sites where Koreans build their temple and buildings
4. China: brush painting Japan: ______________
a. Calligraphy
b. Sand Casting
c. Wood carving
d. Woodblock printing
5. The following words are examples of Chinese painting showing culture and ideology EXCEPT
for__________________
a. Mountainous terrain
b. Temple near a waterfall
c. Birds on a tree branch
d. People gathering in a festival

B. “Explain It”
Use the following pictures to compare the paintings from Japan, China, and Korea. Identify the similarities in
terms of the subjects and elements of arts (color, space, texture, lines) used by each country by writing your
observations on a piece of paper.

Chinese Paintings Japanese Paintings

Korean Paintings

Additional Activities:

Based on the information learned about the paintings of selected East Asian countries apply their characteristics
by painting chosen subjects on clean sheet of A4 bond paper. You can use the famous icon on your locality as
your subject like the Mayon Volcano or the Lapay bird.

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ANSWER KEY:
Activity 1 (Explore)
1. JAPAN
2. CHINA
3. KOREA
Activity 2 (Engage)
“TELL ME THE SUBJECT”
a.
1. FRUIT AND BIRD
2. BAMBOO
3. PALACE/TEMPLE
b.
Flowers, bamboos & stone, Temple/building, human figures/woman, landscapes, animals/horses
Activity 3 (Apply)
1. C
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. D
A. “EXPLAIN IT” (5 pts)
(Varied Answers)

Credits:
Eugenio C. Dialino Jr.
Sheryl Contado,
Danica Joy D. Baquilod
Arlyn V. Alota
Mary Anthonette Y. Borja.
(MAPEH Teachers Eastern Samar Divis

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