Barron's: Chapter 25 - Japanese Art

Question 1

Time Period

Answer 1

• 1789-1848

Question 2

Essential Knowledge

Answer 2

• Japanese art is characterized by its influence from Shintoism and Zen philosophy
• Calligraphy is a central art form in Japanese art
• Asian art shows evidence of the interconnectivity of regional schools with the wider world
• Asian art, particularly Japanese prints, heavily influenced the art of Europe

Question 3

Todai-ji

Answer 3

• 743
• rebuilt c. 1700
• wood with ceramic tile roofing
• Nara, Japan
• Japanese art

Question 4

Great Buddha

Answer 4

• base eight century
• upper portion including head twelfth century
• copper
• Japanese art
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Images of Buddha Across Asia
  
  • Bamiyan Buddha
  • Jowo Rinpoche
  • Longmen Caves

Question 5

Nio Guardian FIgures

Answer 5

• c. 1203
• wood
• by Unkei, Tankei, and Jokahu
• Japanese art

Question 6

Great South Gate

Answer 6

• 1181-1203
• wood with ceramic tile roofing
• Japanese art
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Entrances
  
  • Great Portal, Chartres
  • North Gate of the Great Stupa
  • Front Gate of the Forbidden City

Question 7

Ryoan-ji

Answer 7

• c. 1480
• current design eighteenth century
• rock garden
• Kyoto Japan
• Japanese art
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: People and Nature
  
  • Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds
  • Velasco, Valley of Mexico
  • Turner, The Slave Ship

Question 8

Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace

Answer 8

• c. 1250-1300
• Handscroll (ink and color on paper)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Japanese art
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Historical Events
  
  • Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  • Goya, And There’s Nothing to Be Done
  • Column of Trajan

Question 9

Ogata Korin, White and Red Plum Blossoms

Answer 9

• 1710-1716
• watercolor on paper
• MOA Museum of Art
• Atami, Japan
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Multi-Panel Paintings
  
  • Campin (?), Annunciation Triptych
  • Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
  • Circle of the Gonzalez Family, Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scene

Question 10

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura)

Answer 10

• Hokusai
• called “The Great Wave,” from ‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,”
• 1830-1833
• polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Images of the Sea and Water
  
  • Michelangelo, The Flood
  • Turner, The Slave Ship
  • Kusama, Narcissus Garden

Question 11

genre painting

Answer 11

• painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted

Question 12

Haboku (splashed ink)

Answer 12

• a monochrome Japanese ink painting done in a free style in which ink seems to be splashed on a surface

Question 13

kondo

Answer 13

• a hall used for Buddhist teachings

Question 14

Mandorla (Italien, meaning “almond”)

Answer 14

• a term that describes a large almond-shaped orb around holy figures like Christ and Buddha

Question 15

Tarashikomi

Answer 15

• a Japanese painting technique in which paint is applied to a surface that has not already dried form a previous application

Question 16

Ukiyo-e

Answer 16

• translated as “pictures of the floating world,” a Japanese genre painting popular form the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

Question 17

Yamato-e

Answer 17

• a style of Japanese painting that is characterized by native subject matter, stylized features, and thick bright pigments

Question 18

Zen

Answer 18

• a metaphysical branch of Buddhism that teaches fulfillment through self-discipline and intuiton