ASIA'S ART ( Presented By: Mary Angel Bhenie Maninang & Faith Ricardo)

TOPIC OUTLINE
- PHILIPPINE ART
- CHINESE ART
- JAPANESE ART

1. CHINESE ART
- China has a long heritage of artistic practice, and Ancient Chinese artist worked in many
materials. They possessed a high degree of technical understanding and pioneered methods like
casting BRONZE.

- A metal made of copper and tin. They also developed new ways to fire ceramics and add
glazes. Most early Chinese art tended to reflect class structure as it evolved in China over the
centuries, and much of it was related to funerary practices.

- Oldest Chinese Art are pottery. And examples have been found dating back to 18,000 BC. The
yangshao culture in Northern China was known for its redpainted pottery , made by layering
coils of clay one on topof the other and then smoothing their surface with a paddle. The most
spectacular example of pottery from ancient China is the Terracotta Army.

- Chines artist also CARVED STONE OBJECTS. They worked in jade, the name for a range of
translucent greenish to whitish stone that was usually nephrite or jadeite. Some of the popular
figures included the dragon and the phoenix, two mythical creatures seen as divine in ancient
China.

- The time period covered by the Shang and Zhou Dynasties is referred to as the Bronze Age,
and as well as weaponry, parts of chariots, and animal-like masks with large eyes called taotle
( scholars aren’t sure what the masks were used for. )

- The Chinese honed their skill of bronze casting by heating solid metals beyond their melting
point. To make bronze objects, they sometimes used piece-mold casting.

- One of the most treasured Chinese Art forms is calligraphy. The art of writing with emphasis
on visual strokes. Done with brush and ink, it was invented during the Shang dynasty.
JAPANESE ART
- The earliest inhabitants of Japan likely arrived from mainland Asia thousands of years ago so it
no surprise that Japanese art has al long history of Chinese influences. Many foreign techniques
were adopted and developed locally with the unique character.

- Often influenced by the Chinese forms, Japanese art could be religious of secular in nature.
Some of the oldest Japanese art included earthenware, and ceramic vessels. They also feature
sculptures like dogu figures, often shape like women and thought to be used for fertility prayers,
and haniwa funerary forms, which were often shaped like horses or warriors and placed outside
ancient tombs.

- Later sculpture often focused on the Buddhist, including the bronze Buddha of Kamakura
painting in the Japan developed out of calligraphy, or the art of beautiful writing. Subjects
included nature, landscapes and people sometime they were painted on silk scrolls spontaneous
brush strokes.

- Yamato-e developed during Heian. That focused on Japanese subjects featured bold colors and
was more formal than earlier painting styles.

- Wood black printing, image with carbed wood and ink, also become popular in Japan
beginning around the 17th century, as style of printcalled Ukiyo-e or floating world focused on
earthly pleasures like courtesan, brothels and sumo wrestlers.

PHILIPPINE ART
- During pre-colonization, the early Filipinos are said to have been practicing arts, akin to those
who lived during the pre-historic age cave also found of sculpture. Pottery has existed during this
time were over 1500 burial jars were found in a said caves. Notable among this jars is the
Manunggul Jar, which considered to be a national cultural treasure. Other finds included
earthenware, jade ornaments, jewelry and many stone tools, dating back to 47,000 years ago
from the earliest human found in the Philippines.

- Architecture was also evident among the Filipinos as manifested in the kind of dwellings and
houses, shelters, worship areas, official residents, mosques, and state edifices during the pre-
conquest age.

- When Spaniards came to the Philippines religion becomes the subject of most painting and
sculpturesthere were many religious icon, portraitures of secular leaders, altar pieces and
religious figurines. The indigenous people of Visayas were called Pintados by the Spanish
colonizers to described the tattooed indigenous Cebuano Visayan people. There were found in
islands of Cebu, Bohol, Easter part of Negros, Samar Leyte. The used of furniture was also
introduced in more intricately designed jewelries, metal work and ornament into being.

- During the American period, paintings used landscapes portraiture, still life, among others.
Sculptures were either free standing or relief displayed in public. Architecture are more of city
planning water front, civic/government structures, public works, apartments, residences, offices,
health and public education and businesses.

- When the Japanese came both paintings and sculptures were about war time scenes and
propagandas like the work of Amorsolo, Francisco and Ocampo.

- In the post war republic, paintings and sculptures become more modern but conservative.
Abstract and experimental and are usually public art from the 1970’s up to present they are now
artworks that are figurative, non-figurative, art for art’s sake and of course, with the
technological advancement that we all enjoy, there are multi media, mixed media and trans
media architectures during these had two periods are mostly about real estate, safe and low-cost
housing, accessories, tenements, convention arch, commercial or business establishment,
condominiums, malls, subdivisions and other developments.

- Clearly, Philippine art, though existed even before the colonizers, was very much influenced by
the other cultures.

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