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EAST
ASIAN
ARTS

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In East Asia, the objects or
items that are usually put
into paintings are called
subjects, themes or motifs.
These may be about animals,
people, landscapes, and
anything about the
environment.
Temples are usual subject in
East Asian painting.

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Country Painting Subject or Themes
China 1. Flowers & birds
2. Landscapes
3. Palaces and Temples
4. Human Figures
5. Animals
6. Bamboos & Stones
Japan 1. Scenes from everyday lives
2. Narrative scenes crowded with
figures and details
North & South Korea Subjects divided into 5 categories:
1. Landscape paintings
2. Minhwa ( the traditional folk paiting)
3. Four Gracious Plants (plum
blossoms, orchids or wold prchids,
chrysanthemums)
4. Bamboo
5. portraits

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Silk was often used as the medium to
paint upon, but it was quite
expensive.
The ideologies of Confucianism,
Daoism and Buddhism played important
roles in East Asian art.
Temples are the usual subjects in
East Asian paintings.
East Asian countries have theatrical
forms.

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East Asian Temples and houses have
sweeping roofs because they believe
that it will protect them from the
elements of water, wind and fire.
Buddhists believed that it helped ward
off evil spirits which were deemed to
be straight lines.
The figures at the tips are called
roof guards.
Woodblock printing is a technique for
printing text, images or patterns used
widely throughout East Asia.
Painting is indeed one of the highest