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17891848 Never been successfully invaded by an outside army so that means it has been Isolated So the art has been isolated as well Commodore Perry opened Japan Up to the world in 1854 Ukioy ID: 473061

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Japanese Art

1789-1848-

Never been successfully invaded by an outside army- so that means it has been

Isolated. So the art has been isolated as well. Commodore Perry opened Japan

Up to the world in 1854.

Ukioy

-e prints were revealed first as packing tea material

And then as prints in their own right.

Europe and America loved them and learned from them; the Japanese upper

Class hated them.

Japanese artists worked for royalty and religious leaders.

Workshops with masters (families) and assistants taught the trade from the small

Things ( ink grinding and paper making) to the larger things.

Aristocrats of both genders learned to paint.

Zen Buddhism is part of the culture: austerity, self-control, courage and loyalty is seen as in the samurai warriors. Zen is introspective and art follows suit.Slide2

Tea Ceremony is highly important and extremely influential.

Seems casual, but is sophisticated. Use of crude vessels ( keeping things for over a year,

refined tea, gestures during the ceremony.. .are all minimal.

Low door way- entry way for humbleness

Private area for the ceremony

Rectangular spaces that house Zen paintings

5 people

4 principles:

Purity, Harmony, respect, tranquility

All parts of the ceremony are scripted down to the content of conversation

Architecture and Sculpture

AUSTERITY- Harmonizing with nature- one story- wood, pillars support the roof,

There is an opening to see out to nature

Floors are raised for circulation, eaves long- to assist with shade, steep roofs allow for run-off of rain or snow

Interiors are mobile with sliding screens, and floors have stray mats.

Zen garden is meticulous in the raking lines, placed stones, and plants. There is no water , but it is surmised through the rock placement. Gardens are to refresh.

Shintoism

is the native religion- spirits in nature and objects.Slide3
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The temple's name is synonymous with the temple's famous 'Zen garden', the 

(dry landscape) 

rock garden

, thought to have been built in the late 15th century.

The garden is a rectangle of 248 square meters. Placed within it are fifteen stones of different sizes, carefully composed in five groups; one group of five stones, two groups of three, and two groups of two stones. The stones are surrounded by white gravel, which is carefully raked each day by the monks. The only vegetation in the garden is some moss around the stones.

The garden is meant to be viewed from a seated position on the veranda of the 

hōjō

, the residence of the abbot of the monastery.

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The stones are placed so that the entire composition cannot be seen at once from the veranda. They are also arranged so that when looking at the garden from any angle (other than from above) only fourteen of the boulders are visible at one time. It is traditionally said that only through attaining enlightenment would one be able to view the fifteenth boulder.

The wall behind the garden is an important element of the garden. It is made of clay, which has been stained by age with subtle brown and orange tones. In 1977, the tile roof of the wall was restored with tree bark to its original appearance.

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When the garden was rebuilt in 1799, it came up higher than before and a view over the wall to the mountain scenery behind came about. At present this view is blocked by trees.

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. Garden historian Gunter

Nitschke

wrote: "The garden at

Ryōan-ji

does not symbolize anything, or more precisely, to avoid any misunderstanding, the garden of

Ryōan-ji

does not symbolize, nor does it have the value of reproducing a natural beauty that one can find in the real or mythical world. I consider it to be an abstract composition of "natural" objects in space, a composition whose function is to incite meditation.".

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Japanese Printmaking and Painting

Japanese copied Chinese painting so we see

Hanging scrolls,

handscrolls

and screens.

We see elevated viewpoints, diagonal lines and

Depersonalized faces.

Haboku

- ink splashed looks random, but is not.

Yamato-e =Narrative scrolls developed in 12

th

century to tell the story of Japan. Depersonalized people here with a line for a mouth or a dot for a face. Strong diagonals are seen and scrolls are divided by clouds.

Genre painting is dominated by

Ukioy

-e prints.( pictures of the floating (transient) world). They depict geishas, festivals, domestic life and brothels.Slide15

Ukioy-e prints were distained by the Japanese upper class, but the Western World was exposed and loved them. They influenced the Impressionist Masters in France.

Prints were a collaborative art and made in black and white at first- color was added by the 18

th

century, even though it made the prints more expensive.

Hosukai

- explored

Ukioy

-e and landscape with 37 views of Mt. Fujiyama.

French painters looked at the flat color, the diagonals, no shadow, odd angles and cut off areas and figures seen from behind or only partial figures.Slide16
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