Japanese art

Preserving Endangered Languages As An Art Form The article “Why Do Language Die?” by Noah Tesch reminds me a conversation that I had with a Cherokee when I visited a Cherokee Preservation festival at the Cherokee National Park several years ago. When I asked if they are speaking their native languages, he replied to me that the government requires their younger generations to learn whatever are in the culture of Cherokee, including learning the Cherokee language because their languages are near…

Katsushika Hokusai’s piece titled The Great Wave off Shore At Kanagawa is a Japanese woodblock print that was created around 1826-1833 in the Edo period. This piece is apart of Hokusai’s series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Japan’s most famous mountain, Mount Fuji is in every piece in the series. This piece is relatively small at 10 1/8 inches x 14 15/16 inches. Yet, Hokusai did not make his magnificent pieces of art alone, he had skilled craftsman aid in the production of the each of his…

In the Philadelphia Museum of Art there is a masterpiece titled No. 22 by Jackson Pollock, who is known for his unique style of drip painting. He was a pioneering, influential painter in the abstract expressionist movement (Seed). Art critics usually regard Pollock’s works as images of chaos, lacking a rigid structure and harmony (Chave 100). In No. 22, Pollock employed his usual manner of pouring and dripping paints on canvas. As Chave pointed out in her essay, “there is no center in his…

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau, or the French term for “New Art,” is a colorful movement in the arts that attracted Europe during the process of change from the 19th century to the 20th century. Art Nouveau had other names, “Stile Liberty” in Italy and “youth style” in German. Right before art lovers would begin riding in motor cars, watching moving pictures, and refreshing for the First World War, they would flip through bright international philosophy and style of art magazines. This cultural…

While creating my “big triangle” I had never realized how drastically styles, especially comics, depict people. Scott McCloud focuses on how we are able to recognize and see human faces even in basic depictions, such as his example of a circle with two eyes and a line for a mouth. Thus, in comics this allows a ton of variety in the degrees of realism and expressionism, which is why so many styles exist, especially regionally. Though it was occasionally hard for me to find an appropriate example…

months. To keep Henri busy his mom bought him a box of art supplies to keep him entertained while he was bed-ridden. Henri took off with it he decided right then and there what he wanted to do when he saw all those pretty colors. His mother was the first person to give him advise when he is creating art, she said, ”Now Henri do not listen to the “rules” of art but listen to your emotions. When he was over his illness Henri moved to Pair to study art at the Academie Julian, were he began studies…

capture a moment of Luxun in the new woodcut movement. On this painting, Lu Xun was in the center of the classroom holding a woodcut work and taking with a crowd of students sitting around him. Thirteen students were recruited for the class held at a Japanese school in Shanghai. During this summer course, Lu Xun lectured on the…

Prompt #2 From Margins to Center The Structure of “Gaze” and Women in Art Throughout the recorded history, we have lived in patriarchal social systems. Male artists dominate the art world and art is made for male audiences. Not only are women represented in singular and passive ways, but also some works were transgressing against females. Men maintain a studio system, which has excluded women from training as artists, a gallery system that has kept them from exhibiting and selling their…

have been doing art all my life with the influence of my father, who is a professional artist at inka gallery, Salamanca. He has introduced me to art and the techniques of oil painting, such as never to use black paint but use purple, brown and blue to make a dark paint colours, the way to use the art brushes properly and many more influences and techniques. From all the variety of art that he has showed me I would have to say that oil paint was my favour medium to use in the art world, due to…

Interaction In 1995, Triple J created a youth radio station dedicated to helping up and coming Australian artists have a launchpad into the music industry. I have been listening to Triple J Unearthed since 2013, discovering new upcoming Australian artists and bands. The interaction will discuss how Triple J Unearthed has exposed me to unestablished Australian artists. I have looked at what bands I have found out about through the listening service. I also looked into how the website is set up,…