What is Japanese Art?
Japanese art has an extensive history beginning as early as 10,000 BCE. Japanese art embraces a plethora of different mediums and styles to include ancient pottery, ink paintings on silk and paper, origami, calligraphy, sculpture in wood and bronze and more recently magna (cartoons) and anime (Japanese animation). Even Japanese gardens and Samurai armor are skillfully and beautifully crafted.
INCREDIBLE START Candice!
ReplyDeleteSlowly, but surely, this blog could start to unwind the many mediums and visual narratives, inherent in Japanese art...Where to begin? A. Somewhere, something...ancient pottery, perhaps?
That's exactly what I was thinking. Right now I'm working on the Jomon and Yayoi Periods, which is basically where it all began. Did you know that the Jomon people created the first known pottery vessels in the world?? It'll be in my blog : )
ReplyDeleteINDEED! Jomon ceramic is know for it's 'rope incised' exteriors. Seriously old ceramic too!
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