Art work done by Katsushika Hokusai
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ASIAN DESIGN
FUJI PAINTING
Content 1. Chinese Imperial Dragon 2. Chinese Zodiac 3. Batik 4. painting with tounge ,Ani K
5. Zen space 6. chinese opera 7. Won 8. Asian beliefs
Author/Editor Olivia T
Chinese Imperial Dragon Iconology is a study branch of art history, is the study of the meaning con tained within the symbols in a particular work of art. There are many Iconol ogies in Asia, one of the example is Chinese im perial dragon, the dragon is a legendary and mythical creature in Chinese culture. Dragons are portrayed in Chinese art and archi tecture. The Chinese sign for the dragon first appeared upon turtle shields as a tribal totem way back during the Yin and Shang dy nasties, and was eventually emblazed on the national flag during the Qing Dynasty Many temples and historical buildings feature with dragon iconology. In China, the dragon symbolizes power and potency. The Chinese believed the bones of Oriental dragons had vast healing powers. It is also a symbol of strength and good luck, and is often traditionally associated with the Emperor. The images of dragon it’s self commands adorations, worship, and also fear among those Chinese people. They are essentially benevolent and associated with abundance and blessing.1
in semiotics, dragon is part of Chinese zodiac. Chinese zodiac is known as sheng Xiao is based on a twelve-year cycle, each year in that cycle related to an animal sign. These signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, roost er, dog and pig. It is calculated according to Chinese Lunar calendar. It is believed that the years represented by the animals affect the characters of people in the same way like the western astrology signs. The order of the animals are decided base on the race. when people talk about a person’s zodiac sign, they might think about the zodiac sign’s characteristics. For example, when talking about Rats, people think of quick-witted, resource ful. According to Chinese tradition, when the year of your birth sign comes around it is believed to be bad luck. It is called one’s Ben Ming Nian. The Ben Ming Nian is a whole year of bad luck. Generally all aspects of your life, in cluding love, health, career and finance, will not go well. Therefore “Dragons” should be more careful in years of the Dragon. For those who believes, they will follow the rules on how to be lucky in your ben Ming Nian, for examples wearing red color of clothes because Red is one of the luckiest colors in Chi nese culture, standing for prosperity, loyalty, success, and happiness.it will drive away bad luck and evil spirits.2
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INDONESIA BATIK There are many things that we can used for daily supplies, some of us use daily supplies to support and completes our daily needs, create an art or reuse them for recycling, each country have their own traditional things to look at and remember, because of that things people get interest to know more about the country itself. One of the example is batik from Indonesia. Batik has been found in the Far East, Middle East, Central Asia and India from over 2000 years ago. he word batik is thought to be derived from the word ‘ambatik’ which translated means ‘a cloth with little dots’. The suffix ‘tik’ means little dot, drop, point or to make dots. Batik is made ei ther by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a cap.They are decorated with trees, animals, flute play ers, hunting scenes, and mountains.
Batik already existed in 4th century which It’s said during that time people use that to wrap mummies, but right now batik be come One of the famous traditional clothes around Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia and all around the worlds http://wastratypeface.blogspot. com/The art of batik is most highly devel oped in the island of Java in Indonesia. In Java, all the materi als for the process are readily available — cotton and bees wax and plants from which different vegetable dyes are made. Indonesia, most particularly the island of Java, is the area where batik has reached the greatest peak of ac complishment. The Indonesian island of Java is the principal source of the brilliant textiles for batik ,the batik methods we know today are not older than the early 19th century. The color and the textile of batik make the fabric itself looks more interesting and gives the feelings of unique from others and it’s looks similar with indian farbic , both of the fabrice have the textile and interesting pattern. Natural materials such as cot ton or silk are used for the cloth, so that it can absorb the wax that is applied in the dye resisting process. The fabrics must be of a high thread count It is important that cloth of high quality have this high thread count so that the intricate design qualities of batik can be main tained.now days batik often used as a daily clothes and it’s modefied in different way like skirt,scarft,etc.3
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Lick of paint! Indian artist gets a taste for painting with his tongue.
Bizarre is a thing that strikingly out of ordinary or eccentric in style. one of the example is art work done by Indian artist called Ani K, Ani K doesn’t use a brush to create his masterpieces - he paints with his tongue. He produces 1000 pictures without using a brush. He also uses his palate to mix colors, scooping up different shades of paint on his tongue to form new colors and tones. He said he want to be different from others. He want to try art which is distinct.He ever tried painting with his nose , chin ,eyebow and feet.After painting with his tongue,he experiences headaches and a painful jaw. But he wouldn’t give up on his unique technique, and now he’s become immune to the side effects so he didn’t teach the students to use tongue,but ask them to follow the conventional styles. he was inspired to try something different after reading about an artist who used only his foot.He was roused by a maestro who painted with his foot and felt the need to do something to that effect. At first, he tried to paint with his nose, but he realised many people were already doing that.first ,he was suffered terrible headaches and nausea as a result from using oil paints.but right now he can just finish the painting just for 3 days ,overall he produced 1000 artwork.4
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Japanese Zen Interior Spaces is an element of art, spaces refers to a distance/ area between components of piece, spaces can be positive,negative,open,closed,shallow,deep,3D and 2D.one of the example is Zen. The spaces gives the feelings of peaceful, serene, tranquil and relaxed. the key elements in Zen interior design are based on minimalism and the focus on harmony and balance. It’s originated from japan. the design empha sizes on soft smooth and silky textures. The idea behind the use of soft textures is to practice kindness, softness and loving attitudes towards all things around us. The main principle of this style of designing is to maintain calm, open, clean and clutter free spaces.The color is all about natural colors in soft tones such as white,grey shade of beige or pink beige ,which have the power to introduce a sense of relaxation and calmness. The zen room is meant to be a yin space that’s quiet and peaceful. In feng shui we say horizontal lines are yin, more static, while verti cal lines are yang or more dynamic.5
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Chinese
Opera
Music in ancient China was used for pleasure, religious cere monies, announcements, dance, entertainment, and to match or blend with the sounds of nature. The ancient Chinese were the first to divide instruments into groups. The categories were silk, bamboo, hide, clay, gourd, metal, stone, and wood, they still in used in china , one of the example is Chinese opera. Chinese opera music is meant to augment the operatic story, actors, visual effects, but the traditional Chinese ensem ble and instrumental solo pieces are generally meant to calm the passions and dispel unrest.Traditional chinese opera is a popular form of drama and music theathere in china Early forms of Chinese theater are simple, but over time they in corporated various art forms, such as music, song and dance, martial arts, acrobatics, as well as literary art forms to become traditional Chinese opera.6
The first formal opera troop founded by Emperor Xuan zong ,the period which marked the apex of the Tang Dy nasty. Chinese opera are the bold & colorful masks worn by the performers. the colors and patterns of opera mask symbolic meanings, the color represent meaning and char acter for each of the individual facial expression. gold and silver faces represent mystery and aloofness.white and black represent evil, suspicious ,rough and fierce.during the perforamce they won’t use real mask for the perofor mance they often use face painting and costume to make it’s look extravagant and wondrous effect. Simple patterns of painted faces are found in tomb murals of that age. the picture shown is one of the example of chinese opera which is zhang fei. The black face indicates either a rough and bold character or an impartial and selfless personality. butterfly face represent Romance of the Three Kingdoms mostly now days a lot of elderly like to watch the perfor mance of chinese opera.
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Chinese Opera Mask,Zhang fei
Won,the official currency of korea. each iamges represent soemthing meaningful for every peo ple, An image produced in a specific culture, time and place might be interpreted as having universal meaning and the ca pacity to evoke similar responses across all cultures and in all viewers.because the picture have meaning on it ,so they have power to represent something important.images , power and politics are the use of language and images to create a mean ing.One of the example of images power and politics is Won. the money itself have the power to represent and differentci ate on how individual country look like ,the money have the power to exchange things and meet our daily needs.
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each country have their power to make the rate growth higher or lower and money have something to do with politics .Won is the offi cial currency of korea, A single won is divided into 100 jeon,The jeon is no longer used for everyday transactions, and appears only in foreign exchange rates.The old “won” was a cognate of the Chinese yuan and Japanese yen. It is derived from the hanja, meaning “currency” or “coin.” In 1633, the Korean Mun, made up of copper and bronze coins, was made the principal currency of Korea. In 1902, the Won was introduced as the official currency of Korea, with an exchange rate of 1 Won to 5 Yang. at first korean won was two separate curren cies, both called won, for the South and the North The first South Kore an won was subdivid ed into 100 jeon.7
Asian
Beliefes
in indonesia some people beliefes that sparrow brings good luck , if a sparrow enter your house,it is believed that a wedding will occur .if a woman sees a sparrow on valentine day,she will live happily marrying a poor man. Indonesia believes that all things, including plants, rocks, animals, trees – everything, have souls and intelligence and thus influence on the world. These souls can be placated with offerings and rituals. In india people beliefs that many superstitions were associated with pregancy, one of those superstitions coming froms when a bird’s nest is found in a house where a preganant woman lives, one shouldn’t remove the birds nest.In malaysia , you are not supposed to cut your finger at night because it will bring bad spirit into your house and some say do not seat on your book,be cause it will lead to stupidity. http://tusuptourservice.blogspot.com/2014/06/barong-dance-continue-to -ubud-and.html Chinais a land of many popular beliefs, customs and supersti tions. From those believes we will get to know more about social life in china and eas ily acclimatize with the land.each country have their own beliefs , for example in Chinese they believe that one should keep a well-shaven face. If one wears a moustache it should be well-trimmed. If one violates this norm it will give bad luck. in Taiwan, children were told not to point their fingers at the moon, it’s believed that pointing your finger at the moon will make the guardian woman on the moon angry and cut your ears. another superstitious believe is that if a baby cries for no reason, the Chinese believe that there are ghosts around and the child is disturbed by the ghosts.in chinese astrology , they believes that positions of the things is space can affect a person destiny. if one were marries to a person who is either three, six, older or younger will bring back luck to the couples.9
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BIBILOGRAPHY Chinese Imperial Dragon http://www.dragonsinn.net/east-2.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/article-chinese-dragons.htm chinese zodiac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/social_customs/zodiac/ Batik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batik http://www.batikguild.org.uk/batik/history-of-batik http://www.expat.or.id/info/batik.html painting with tounge, Ani k http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555858/Indian-artistAni-K-gets-taste-painting-tongue-produces-1-000-pictures-including-8ft-Da-Vinci.html Zen room http://asianlifestyledesign.com/2011/07/how-to-create-a-zenroom/ Chinese Opera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_opera https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/the-meaningof-chinese-opera-masks/ Won ,korean money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_won Asian Beliefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Asia
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