Asian Art History

Day 3: Painting and Printmaking

Ladies Preparing Newly Woven SilkArtist: Emperor Huizong

Song Dynasty, 12th Century

Travelers Among the Mountains

and Streams

Artist: Fan Kuan

Song Dynasty

11th Century AD

Travelers Among the Mountains and

Streams

• Monochromatic: “Using One Color”

Mono- One Chroma- Color

• Staccato Brushstrokes/Raindrop texture: short quick brushstrokes common in Chinese painting.

Hungry Tigress Jataka

Found in the Tamamushi Shrine in Horyu-ji

Asuka Period (c. 650 AD)

The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai (1832 AD)

Hokusai

• Manga: collection of sketches of various subjects

Hokusai’s Manga