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Japan After 1336 - Shoguns, Samurai, & the Showa, Oh My!
Selected images from Ch. 28, pp. 734-749 of Gardner's 'Art Through the Ages' (13th Ed.), and other relevant images.
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Art History
12th Grade
10/31/2010
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Name: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from 36 Views of Mount Fuji

 

Date: c. 1826 - 1833

Period/Style: Edo Period

Artist/Architect: -

Patron: -

Original Location: Japan

Material/Technique: Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper.

Descriptive Terms: Against a background with the low horizon typical of Western painting, Hokusai placed a threatening wave in the foreground, painted using the traditional flat and powerful graphic forms of Japanese art.

 
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Name: Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom

Date: c. 1513

Period/Style: Muromachi Period

Artist/Architect: Kano Motonobu

Patron: -

Original Location: Kyoto, Japan

Material/Technique: Hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper.

Descriptive Terms: The Kano school represents the opposite pole of Muromachi style from splashed ink painting. In this scroll depicting a Zen patriarch experiencing enlightenment, Motonobu used bold outlines to define the forms.

 
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Name: Pine Forest

Date: c. late 16th century

Period/Style: Momoyama Period

Artist/Architect: Hasegawa Tohaku

Patron: -

Original Location: Japan

Material/Technique: One of a pair of six-panel screen, ink on paper.

Descriptive Terms: Tohaku used wet brush strokes to paint a grove of great pines shrouded in mist. In Zen terms, the six panel screen suggest the illusory nature of mundane reality while evoking a calm, meditative mood.
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