EASTERN

ART
EASTERN
ART
The history of Eastern art includes a vast
range of influences from various cultures
and religions.
From ancient times, China has been the
dominant and referential culture in East
Asia. However,
neighboring archipelago and peninsula
suggests an exchange between East Asian
cultures and
the early introduction of Chinese influence.
ANCIENT
CHINESE
ART
The painting, calligraphy,
architecture, pottery, sculpture,
bronzes, jade carving, and other
fine or decorative art forms
produced in China over the
centuries.
ANCIENT CHINESE
ART

- From about the 1st century AD

Buddhism inspired much sculpture
and painting.

- The Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)

produced outstanding metalwork,
ceramics, and
sculpture.

- The Song dynasty (960-1278)

established standards of idyllic
landscape and nature
painting in a delicate calligraphic style.
ANCIENT CHINESE ART
- From about the 1st century AD Buddhism
inspired much sculpture and painting.
ANCIENT CHINESE ART
- The Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)
produced outstanding metalwork, ceramics,
and sculpture.

HAN-ERA JADE TIGER BRONZE HORSE

ANCIENT CHINESE ART - The Song dynasty (960-1278) established
standards of idyllic landscape and nature
painting in a delicate calligraphic style.

Early Spring (1072) Hanging Solitary Temple amid Clearing

scroll, ink on silk by Guo Xi. Peaks (c.960) Hanging scroll,
ink on silk by Li Cheng.
JAPANESE
ART
Japanese art represented nature
from a more spiritual perspective
rather than
pursuing scientific realism; nature
was seen as a part of a whole to be
projected through the life
and experience of the individual
artist, a view that became more
clearly expressed with the
arrival of Buddhism in the 6th
century.
ZEN BUDDHISM
AND MINIMALISM
The less is beautiful, in a Japanese sense
of beauty.

ZEN PAINTINGS
The cause of suffering in life is
attachment to material things. The
lesser the possessions, the lesser the
suffering. So the secret to happiness is
living a simple life.
ZEN PAINTINGS
SOUTHEAST ASIAN
ART AND
ARCHITECTURE
Includes works from the geographical areas
including the modern countries of Thailand,
Cambodia, Lao, Vietnam, Myanmar (formerly
Burma), Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia
which is also known as the Indochina.

The art in this region draws from three major

sources: indigenous traditions, China, and
India.
THAILAND
Thai art is heavily influenced by
stories of the Buddha and Indian
epics, with sculpture being almost
exclusively of the Buddha. Featured
heavily are stories of the previous
births of the Buddha, his life, and
Thai versions of Buddhist narratives
based on Thai folklore
THAILAND
LAO
Artisans in Laos are skilled
metalsmiths, sculpting in bronze,
gold, and silver. Most castings are
of small sculptures and items, but
as in the case of the Phra Say, a
large golden statue of the Buddha,
large images are sometimes
created
LAO
VIETNAM
Vietnamese art dates to decorated pottery
in the Neolithic age, advancing to
elaborately decorated Dong Son drums
cast in bronze with details of geometric
patterns and narratives of the lives and
conquests of the culture.

Over the centuries Vietnam has had many

religious and philosophical influences,
including Confucianism, Buddhism, and
Taoism. The French occupation had an
influence on painting and established
schools there.
VIETNAM
One of the most popular Vietnamese arts
is silk painting because mystical effects
can be made using the combination of
silk and paint. Because of their love of
vivid color and more liberal use of paint,
Vietnamese silks are unique in the genre
VIETNAM
CAMBODIA
Stone carving in Cambodia is intricate, detailed, and
narrative. The detail is so fine that individual leaves
are carved from trees, yet even tinier details are
made possible by the carver.

Cambodian art has also included silver smithing,

lacquerware, a variety of textiles, and kite making. A
school for Cambodian arts was established in the
1940s, and modern art was encouraged,
commissioned, and purchased for the government
and its officials.
CAMBODIA
Art in Cambodia is reemerging through the strength
and will of a formidable people. Following the
genocide practiced by their government on their
people, artistic revival is being reinvigorated and
renewed.
CAMBODIA
MYANMAR
Art in Burma/Myanmar primarily centers on the
Buddha and is expressed in sculpture, architecture,
relief, murals, and carving

Before the advent of paper, Burmese “books” were

created by stacking palm leaves one on top of the
other and then binding them.
When the paper was developed, the new books were
still made in the shape of the palm leaves in a
uniquely Burmese tradition
MYANMAR
INDONESIA
Africa lays claim to the oldest evidence of art,
but Indonesia has the oldest example of art
applied with two stencils of hands and
paintings of animal figures dating back
40,000 years.

More recently, the lands of Indonesia are

famous for Balinese paintings, which are
natural in subject and expression, and in the
relief sculptures (measuring 100 meters) at
the temple Borobudur in Java.

Contemporary Indonesians are highly

regarded for their colorful and detailed
designs in batik, a dye painted fabric.
INDONESIA
MALAYSIA
Traditional Malaysian art is primarily
composed of Malay art and Bornean art, is
very similar with the other styles from
Southeast Asia, such
as Bruneian, Indonesian and Singaporean.

Art has a long tradition in Malaysia, with

Malay art that dating back to the Malay
sultanates, has always been influenced
by Chinese, Indian and Islamic arts, and also
present, due to large population
of Chinese and Indian in today's Malaysian
demographics.
MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE
BUDDHIST
ART
Art and design of the Buddhist world, since
the foundation of Buddhism, a philosophy that
seeks enlightenment, by the Buddha
Sakyamuni in the 5th century BC.

The earliest Buddhist art developed in India to

accommodate the new religion, including
pillars and stupa, domed reliquary shrines that
became the focus for pilgrims.
BUDDHIST
ART
In the first century A.D., the human
image of one Buddha came to
dominate the artistic scene, and one
of the first sites at which this
occurred was along India’s
northwestern frontier.
BUDDHIST
ART
INDIAN ART AND
ARCHITECTURE
Works of art and architecture produced on the
Indian subcontinent, which is now divided among
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

In the Western world, notable collections of Indian

art can be seen in the British Museum, in the
Victoria and Albert Museum, and in the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.
INDIAN ART AND
ARCHITECTURE
Although a great deal of Indian secular art was
produced, it was essentially made of perishable
material and has not survived.

What has survived in the medium of stone is

religious art, in both Buddhist and Hindu art,
symbolism in gesture, posture, and attribute
contains many levels of meaning.

In images of the Buddha, different hand positions

(mudras) signify religious states, such as the
Enlightenment (Nirvana), Meditation, and
Preaching.
INDIAN ART
AND
ARCHITECTURE
HINDU
ART
Vedas (c. 1500 - 900 bc.)

Originated in India which features the Hindu

culture especially showcasing the heiratic
posing of their Gods and Deity.
HINDU
ART
Flowered during the Gupta period ( AD c. 320
-540). when Buddhism began to wane.

Features sculptures, paintings, pottery and

textile arts that geographically expanded in
the subcontinent of India, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
Gautama Buddha sitting
under a pipal tree in the
Dharmachakra Parvartana
Mudra and the crowned
Maitreya seated under the
asoka tree, 5th-6th
century C.E., late Gupta
period. Detail of a fresco
above the doorway.
Ajanta caves (Cave XVII),
near Aurangabad,
Maharashtra.
Khajuraho Group of
Monuments (detail of the
Vishvanath Temple with
amatory sculptures),
1020, Chandella Dynasty.
Sandstone.
Khajuraho, Madhya
Pradesh.
Lingaraj Temple with one
hundred and fifty smaller
shrines, 11th century C.E.,
Keshari
dynasty/Somavamsi
dynasty. Red sandstone.
Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
Western Gateway (torana)
of the Great Stupa. The
pillar capitals depict four
yaksha-like figures
standing back-to-back
with upraised hands
supporting the
architraves, 70 B.C.E.,
Satavahana dynasty.
Sandstone, gateway
height: 10.36 m, pillar
height: 4.27 m. Sanchi,
Madhya Pradesh.
ABORIGINAL
ART
Aboriginal according to cambridge means a member of a
race of people who were the first people to live in a
country, before any colonists arrived: The river was once a
trade route for aboriginals and fur traders who built
communities along its bank.

Widely recognized in Australian aborigines and is also

observable in Southeast Asian Prehistoric arts wherein,
paintings carved into the trees and logs as well as on cave
walls are found.
ABORIGINAL
ART
Usually revolves entirely in religious and ceremonial
depiction of Dreamtime.

Reflection of creation mythology and of the Aboriginal

hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINAL
ROCK ART
Pecking of rock surfaces that
depicts Natures mixed with
geometric designs.

Widely recognized as
"Panamaritee Style".
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