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Key Ideas
Artworks list
Flashcard Images
YouTube video: Crash Course: Japan
YouTube video: Hokusai's The Great Wave
YouTube video: Ukiyo-e prints

Key Ideas

  • One of the best preserved artistic traditions in the world
  • Zen Buddhist thought dominates art traditions
  • Ukiyo-e prints originally sold as a middle-class art form but became extremely influential in Europe in the 1800s

Artworks List

Architecture and Sculpture
Todai-ji, 743, Nara, Japan including the Great        
      Buddha sculpture at this location
Great South Gate, 1181-1203
Ryoan-ji (rock garden, dry and wet), Kyoto

Painting, Printmaking
Night Attack on Sanjo Palace, c 1250-1300
White and Red Plum Blossoms by Ogata      
      Korin, 1710-1716
Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa by      
​      Hokusai, 1830-1833

Vocabulary

genre painting
Haboku (splashed ink)
Condo
mandorla
Tarashikomi
Ukiyo-e
Yamato-e
​Zen

Flashcard Images
Ms. Park, Valerie, Park, Advanced, Placement, Art, History