Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains

Zhao Mengfu

Handscroll; ink and color on paper

China

Yuan Dynasty

The Rongxi Studio

Ni Zan

Hanging Scroll; ink on paper

China

Yuan Dynasty

Beggars and Street Characters

Zhou Chen

section of a handscroll; ink and light color on paper

China

Ming Dynasty

Fish, Bird, and Rock

Qianlong Inspecting his Troops

Guiseppe Castiglione

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

China

• accepted Yuan office; was treated as a traitor
• famous poet and calligrapher

• Ming Painting period
• professionals
• court painters
• source: Southern Song Academy traditions

• Suzhou

• -silk production

  -city of canals: Venice of China

  -city of gardens: scholars gardens

  • Shen Zhou
  • Zhou Chen
  • Tang Yin
  • Dong Qichang

• became a Buddhist monk in the Qing
• simple content and composition
• splash and bold ink wash
• exaggerated and eccentric features
• political meaning 

• from Milan, Italy
• missonart went to China in 1715
• transmitted Western painting technique to other court artists
• combination of Chinese and Western styles

Lion Grove Garden

China

Yuan Dynasty

Stem Cup

Porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze iron red enamel

China

Ming Dynasty

Gate of Supreme Harmony

China

Ming Dynasty and after

European Family

Export Porcelain

• painted first then glazed with enamel

• polychrome
• enameled first then painted over the enamel

• a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, between 750-850 degrees Celcius (1380-1560 degrees F).
• the powder melts, flows and then hardens to a smooth, coating on metal, glass or ceramic
• imported to China 13^th to 19^th century (Western technique)

• main halls for emperors on the middle axis of south-north
• minor buildings for emperess, imperial concubines, crown prince, etc. on each side
• 1,000 halls of varied sizes
• north part: resident areas
• south side: main halls for ceremony

Budai Maitreya

Yuan Dynasty

The White Stupa

China

Tibetan Style

Bodhisattva

Dry Lacquer

China

Yuan Dynasty

Qianlong as Manjughosa Emperor

ink and color on silk

• real name: Balabahu (1245-1306)
• was a Nepalese architect born in the 13^th century in Chinese name A Ni Ge, meaning respectable brother from Nepal

-The White Stupa of Miaoying Temple (1271)

-only work still standing

-largest Tibetian style pagoda in China

-50.9 meters high

• Guojie ta, Crossing Street Stupa
• walk through you worship Buddha
• top destroyed by earthquake in Ming Dynasty
• figures on wall (entrance)

-Buddhas of Ten Directions

-thousands Buddhas

-guardian king of the four directions

-Tibetan style

• outside has three floors, inside has four floors
• based on Buddhist sutra
• auspicious style

Cypress Trees

Eight fold screen; gold leaf and ink on paper

Japan

Momoyama Period

Irises

Ogata Korin

Pair of six-fold screens; color and gold leaf on paper

Japan

Edo Period

Shrike on a Dead Branch

Hang scroll; ink on paper

Japan

Edo Period

Rain Shower at Ohashi Bridge

full-color woodblock print

Japan

Edo Period

Otani Oniji III as Edohei

Full-color woodblock print

Japan

Edo Period

• Kano Eitoku (1543-1590)
• a grandson and pupil of Kano Matonobu diagonal composition, but a massive form of the large tree
• golden leaf background, bold outlines

• in 18^th and 19^th
• Nanga in Dong Qichang's terminology
• influenced Ming and Qing literati painting
• painted for pleasure of the artists themselves
• to exaggerate the composition and brushwork

• the name, in Buddhist sense of transient world, the world of everyday life of pleasure, including theatre, dancing, love, or festivals
• associated with popular art of woodblock prints
• mixed previous styles, such as narrative scrolls, decoratvie folding screen style, and native
•  and foreign realism
• "vulgar art" with genre ssubjects

• was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.^[1] He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting.^[2] Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei^?, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.

• a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition.^[1] He was also referred to as Andō Hiroshige

Himeji Castle

Japan

 Momoyama Period

Fresh-water cup for tea ceremony

Shino teaware

Japan

Momoyama Period

Hoteis's Bag and Stick

• by Obaku Kosen

Tiger and Magpie

"Bookshelf" Screen

Yi Dynasty

ink and color on paper

Korea

Bharat Mata

Mother and Child

Akasaka

Hinomaru Illumination

The Kim Family before the Korean War, The Kim Family after Korean War

• modern Indian painter
• painted Bharat Mata
• to save Indian culture and traditions

Mother and Child (tempera on canvas)

• poster style
• Indian motifs
• mother= India, child= the people of India
• like national flok art

• student of Fontanesi
• yoga style
• Harvest (1890)

-soft, gold light pervades the painting

The Monument to the People's Heroes

To the Front

By Hu Yichuan

1932

Navigation in the Ocean Relies on the Gear-Holder; Relies on Mao Zedong Thought

by Wu Hui

1969

My Dream

• a head of Carl Marx (1818-1883)
• an old wall of imperial palace