Buddhist art

body for the basis of metal casts. Gormley pursued art after studying anthropology in Cambridge and practicing Buddhist meditation in India and Sri Lanka, both of which heavily influenced his concepts and works. Interested in artists who explored the relationship between sculpture and space, he drew inspiration from the postminimalist works of Richard Serra (where the sculpture is reduced to its most fundamental features) and from the landscape art of Walter de Maria and Robert Smithson. …

hanging scroll of The White-Robed Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara in the Asian Art Museum was created by a Korean artist, Seol Min in 2008. Seol Min used ink and colors on cotton, the style and historical period is Modern. The subject of the painted scroll is a female Avalokitesvara Water-moon Guanyin who is a devotional icon in Korea and in many other countries. The White-Robed Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara is a bodhisattva of Indian Buddhist origin that spread in the late Tang Dynasty. The…

Culture defines art. According to Webster's dictionary, the definition of culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular group, place, and or time. As time progresses and present becomes past, the ability to preserve a society lies on the capacity to transfer history through tangible forms. Art has the capacity to preserve society and its history; it preserves events and emotions that were once meaningful to an era. Animal symbolism in Chinese and Japanese art as seen in a war…

brothers and one sister. As an Artist himself, bringing home the money off of his amateur art, Piet's dad, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Sr., saw that his child had a natural talent for drawing and painting and could give him lessons. His Uncle, Fritz Mondrian, was also an a fantastic painter and was self trained. Since he was a respectable artist, he figured out how to bring home the money inside of the business art world. He was the person who taught the Mondrian the rudiments of painting, while…

In something as abstract and purposeful as the pursuit of knowledge, individuality plays a critical part in the process. The knower, or the person who is seeking knowledge, must interpret any given facts or experiences into a consolidated piece of knowledge which would then become part of their bank of personal knowledge. However, any knowledge which is presented to any particular knower is interpreted and processed differently before it can be accepted as such on an individual level. For…

Washington State, Japanese and Hispanic or Latino, embracing three conventional characteristics, family, arts, and holidays; in addition to similarities and differences, finally, application in the classroom. Japanese Japanese culture is abundant and diverse, dating back to 10,000BC when the Jomon immigrate originally colonized in Japan; it is universally recognized for its traditional arts in addition to its contemporary pop culture. Asian lineages consist of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean,…

Valerie Steele’s essay, A Museum of Fashion is More Than a Clothes Bag, points out that the research which is based on objects would provide a unique view about the development of fashion (1998, p327). And according to Prown, object analysis follows three stages. The analysis starts with a comprehensive description, recording the outer qualities of the object. The second stage is the deduction, interacting a more open reflection between the object and the perceiver. Finally, the analysis causes…

Functioning as the crucial pathway of Ancient Rome, Iran and China, Xinjiang also links the cultural exchange between China and India. The Buddhist artifacts discovered in Xinjiang rarely came with exact evidence that proves time, which brings difficulty to the creation of a chronology. Buddhism prevails roughly from 5th century to the 9th century in the surrounding areas including the Gandhara…

Annals of Joseon Dynasty, the History of Goryeo, and history books. Sa-go kept the true record of outside of the palace (Kim Soh-Hyeon, 2007; Kim Gi-Tae, 2002). Ancient Korea installed an educational institute for fine arts to educate professional painters so that systematic art education could be possible. Silla in the Three Kingdoms period ran Chae-jeon which was…

chosen to write my report on Michael Kenna. Michael Kenna was born in Widnes, England in 1953 and he specialized in artistic landscape photos. He was one of 5 children born into a working class home. He picked up his passion at Banbury school of the art where he began painting and then picked up photography later on. Michael Kenna moved to San Fransisco in 1977 where he since has lived to this day. He is best known for long exposure, artistic, black and white, landscape photos. In fact he has…