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ARTS
Quarter 2 – Module 2a
Arts of East Asia
MAPEH – Grade 8
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 2 – Module 2a: Arts of East Asia
First Edition, 2020

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Arts
Quarter 2 – Module 2a
Arts of East Asia
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the MAPEH 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Arts of

East Asia.
This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators
both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in
helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while
overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their
needs and circumstances.
In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
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This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage
their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:
Welcome to the Arts 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module Arts of East Asia.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to
process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.
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may decide to skip this module.

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What’s In

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exercises using the Answer Key at the end of the
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you learned from the lesson.
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What I Can Do life situations or concerns.
This is a task which aims to evaluate your level of
mastery in achieving the learning competency.
Assessment

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 In this portion, another activity will be given to you
Additional Activities to enrich your knowledge or skill of the lesson
learned.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.
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If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are not
alone.
We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
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 What I Need to Know

In this module you will learn the different Arts of East Asian countries
specifically painting in China, Japan, and Korea. These countries have been
noted for their numerous similarities and commonalities in their art production,
artistic, traditions, principles of arts as influenced by their history, beliefs,
religion, location, culture, and dynasty.

This module will introduce to you painting subjects or themes in China,

Japan, and Korea. You learn that these countries focus on nature as their
subject or themes in their arts and crafts.

LEARNING COMPETENCY:

A8EL-IIb-1
Analyzes elements and principles of art in the production of arts and crafts inspired
by the cultures of East Asia.

A8EL-IIb-2
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)

A8PL-Ih-1
Reflects on and derive the mood, idea or message from selected artefacts and art
objects.

A8PL-Ih-2
Appreciates the artefacts and art objects in terms of their utilization and their distinct
use of art elements and principles.

A8PL-Ih-2
incorporates the design, form, and spirit of East Asian artifacts and objects to one’s
creation

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 At the end of this module you will also:

Describe the elements and principle of arts in the paintings of China, Japan,
and Korea.
Identify characteristics of arts and crafts in Japan, China and Korea.
Make a graphic organizer.
Display appreciation of the arts and crafts in China, Japan, and Korea by
writing a reflection.

What I Know

PRE-ASSESSMENT
Direction: As you move around the following countries, group each picture according
to the country they belong by writing its number under the correct heading. Copy the
table and answer this in your Arts notebook.
China Japan Korea

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 Score Remarks Comment!
9 Excellent You know the artworks, artforms, and landmarks of China,
Japan and Korea well.
7-8 Very Good You know the artworks, artforms, and landmarks of China,
Japan and Korea.
4-6 Good You have the basic knowledge of the artworks, artforms,
and landmarks of China, Japan and Korea.
0-3 Poor You still need to double your effort in learning about the
artworks, artforms, and landmarks of China, Japan and
Korea.

Task 1:
Identify the subjects of the paintings below. Write your answers in your Arts
notebook.

1 3
2

6
5
4

1. 5. 9.
2. 6.
3. 7.
4. 8.

7 8 9

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 What’s In

Task 2: Guess What?

Write and give words related to the subject/ theme in the arts and crafts in China,
Japan and Korea. Copy the web and answer in your Arts notebook.

Arts in China, Japan and

Korea

What’s New

Task 3. Complete me
Answer the open-ended statement in your Arts notebook.

1. If you were asked to make a painting, what would you paint? Why would you
choose that?
I will paint…. because

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Task 4: Let’s analyse
Analyze the pictures. Write how the elements of arts and principles of design were
used in these paintings. Copy the table below and answer what is asked in your Arts
notebook.
Elements of Lines Shapes Colors Texture
arts
Principles of Balance Emphasis Harmony Pattern
design

Chinese painting Korean Paintings

Guide questions:
1. What are the elements and principles of arts shown in the paintings that depict
tradition, beliefs, religion, location, culture?
2. How important are these elements and principles of art in creating an artwork?
3. What do you feel about their paintings?
4. Why is it important to know the different arts and crafts of East Asia?

What is It

You are now to see the different arts and crafts of East Asia. Study and
analyze carefully.

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. found all
over the world, including China!

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Country Painting Arts and crafts Images
subjects or
themes
CHINA 1.Flowers and Calligraphy is the art
birds of beautiful
2.Landscapes handwriting. Traditional
3.Palaces and painting involves
Temples essentially the same
4.Human techniques as
Figures calligraphy and is done
5.Animals with a brush dipped in
6.Bamboos black or colored ink;
and Stones oils are not used.

Chinese logographs
(ancient writing
symbols) are engraved
on the shoulder bones
of large animals and on
tortoise shells.
It was said that
Cangjie, the legendary
inventor of Chinese

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writing, got his ideas
from observing
animals’ footprints and
birds’ claw marks on
the sand as well as
other natural
phenomena. He then
started to work out
simple images from
what he conceived as
representing different
objects.
Peking opera face-
painting or Jingju
Lianpu is done with
different colors in
accordance with the
performing characters’
personality and
historical assessment.
The hero type
characters are
normally painted in
relatively simple
colors, whereas
enemies, bandits,
rebels and others have
more complicated
designs on their faces.

FOLK ARTS OF
CHINA
Paper was first
invented by Cai Lun of
the Eastern Han
Dynasty in China.
Origami came from
“ori” meaning "folding",
and “kami” meaning
"paper". It is the
traditional Japanese art
of paper folding.
-A sycee is a type of
silver or gold ingot
currency used in China
-the best known
Japanese origami is
the paper crane.
-An ancient Japanese
legend promises that

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 anyone who folds a
thousand origami
cranes will be granted
a wish by a crane.
Zhongguo 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
Jianzhi is the first type
of paper cutting design,
since paper was
invented by the
Chinese. The cut outs
are also used to
decorate doors and
windows. They are
sometimes referred to
"chuāng huā", meaning
Window Flower.

1. Scenes Woodblock printing is a

from technique for printing text,
everyday images or patterns used
life widely throughout East
2. Narrative Asia. It originated in
scenes China as a method of
printing on textiles but
crowded
eventually became a
with figures method for printing on
and details paper. This method was
adapted in Japan during
the Edo period (1603-
1867) and became one of
their oldest and most
highly developed visual
arts

Japanese Ukiyo-e
The best known and most
popular style of Japanese
art is Ukiyo-e, which is
Japanese for "pictures of
the floating world” and it is
related to the style of
woodblock print making

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 that shows scenes of
harmony and carefree
everyday living.
Kabuki Make- up of
Japan
Kesho is already in itself
an interpretation of the
actor’s own role through
the medium of the facial
features. “On stage, this
interpretation becomes a
temporalization of makeup
in collaboration with the
audience.
Kabuki Makeup is also
another way of face
painting which has two
types:
1. standard makeup -
applied to most actors
2. kumadori makeup -
applied to villains and
heroes - It is composed of
very dramatic lines and
shapes using colors that
represent certain
qualities. In Japan, knot
tying is called
Hanamusubi. It
emphasizes on braids and
focuses on individual
knots.

What’s More
Directions: The following are the different works of art that we have discussed in
each of the Southeast Asian countries. Give the characteristics, elements and
principles of arts of each given country. Supply what is being needed in the table.
Give at least 2 examples. Answer this in your Arts notebook.

COUNTRIES ELEMENTS ARTS CHARACTERISTICS

AND AND AND IT’S
PRINCIPLES CRAFTS UTILIZATION

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 Subjects are Korean masks, called tal
divided into or t'al, originated with
five religious meaning; also
categories: have religious or artistic
1. origins.
landscape -They use it in funeral
paintings services to help banish
2. Minhwa evil spirits and theatre
(the plays dating back to the
traditional prehistoric age.
folk -used for shamanistic rites
painting) and were kept within
3. Four temples where they were
Gracious honored with offerings.
Plants (plum
blossoms, Decorative knotwork is
orchids or known as “Maedeup or
wild orchids, called Dorae” or double
chrysanthe connection knot, often
China, mums) called Korean knot work
Japan 4. bamboo or Korean knots.
And Korea 5. portraits
There are three main
types of roofs in
traditional Chinese
architecture that
East Asian influenced other Asian
temples and architecture:
houses 1. Straight inclined -
have more economical for
sweeping common Chinese
roofs architecture
because 2. Multi-inclined - Roofs
they believe with two or more sections
that it will of incline. These roofs are
protect them used for residences of
from the wealthy Chinese.
elements of 3. Sweeping – has
water, wind curves that rise at the
and fire. corners of the roof. These
Buddhists are usually reserved for
believed temples and palaces
that it although it may also be
helped ward found in the homes of the
off evil wealthy. Originally, the
spirits which ridges of the roofs are

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 were usually highly
deemed to decorated with ceramic
be straight figurines.
lines. The
figures at
the tips are
called roof
guards.

1.

3.

4.

What I Have Learned

My Diary!
As if you were to write in a diary, answer the following questions. Write your answers
in your Arts notebook.
1. What have you observed about the arts of East Asian countries (Japan, China,
and Korea)?

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2. What have you learned about East Asian arts?
3. What skills did you develop?
4. How did you feel while doing the activities?

What I Can Do
Create 4 different models of origami. Stick this 4 different origami models in a
bond paper for submission.

Criteria: Level of difficulty 5 pts

Aesthetic appeal 5 pts
TOTAL 10 pts

Examples:

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https://bit.ly/3lLycy2 https://bit.ly/3pJkgqV

Assessment

A. Complete Me. Write your answers in your Arts notebook.

1. What Philippine artwork/s has/have similar characteristics with the artworks

discussed above? Explain briefly.

2. Give at least one craft of Southeast Asian Arts and reflect the ideas, mood and
message from the selected art object.

B. Match and Fill. Written below are descriptions of the arts in China, Korea and
Japan. From the WORD POOL, choose the arts and crafts that match the
descriptions. Write your answers in your Arts notebook.

1.The art that is considered as one of the oldest and most highly refined
among the arts of Japan.

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 2. It is regarded as the highest form of Chinese painting.
3. The art of beautiful handwriting.
4. Arts and crafts flourished during this period in Korean history.
5. A technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout
East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and
paper.
6. The best-known type of Japanese woodblock art print
7. The era in Korean paintings that offers the richest variety and are the
styles most imitated today.
9. The three concepts of art reflected mostly in the artworks and crafts in
China, Japan and Korea.
10.It is also known as Jingju Lianpu that is done with different colors in
accordance with the performing characters’ personality and historical assessment

Additional Activities
Copy and answer this activity in your Arts notebook.
1. Three things I learned about the art of .

a.

b.

c.

2. I think I still need clarifications and do more research on each of the following
topic:

a. Concept and History:

.
b. Elements: (line, color, texture):

c. Principles of Art (Unity, pattern, variation):

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 Answer Key

Additional activites
ace-Paint
Chosun Period 8. Origami 9. Heaven, Earth,5. WMank
oodblock Printing 6.FUkiyo-e 7.
ind 10.Peking
1. Painting 2. Landscape painting 3. Calligraphy 4. Jingju Lianpu

Match and Fill B.

Answer may vary. A.

Assessment
Sample answer (Human figure, Flowers and Bird, Bamboo and stone etc…)

Task 2:

9. Scenes from everyday life

8. Landscape

7. Scenes from everyday life

Answer may vary… 6. Scenes from everyday life

What I have learned 5. Human figure

Answer may vary… 4. Human figure

What’s more 3. Palaces and temples

Task 4: Answer may vary… 2. Bamboo and stones

Task 3: Answer may vary… 1. Flowers and birds

What’s new What’s In (Task 1)

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