East Asian Art History Culture, Politics, History Christina Wei-Szu Burke Mathison History of Art Department The Ohio State University Art – Context – Historical, Political, Cultural Terminology Traditional Painting in East Asia: China, Korea, Japan Comparison Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea during the 19th-20th centuries Concepts of Modernity – Traditional vs. “Modern” Taiwan During the Japanese Occupation (1895-1945) Chen Cheng-po (Tan Ting-pho) 陳澄波 (1895-1947) Taiwan Tokyo, Japan Shanghai, China Taiwan Stylistic Characteristics Composition - Color - Brushwork - Line and Form – Mood Subject Matter – Iconography - Context iconography, context iconography, context Homonym iconography, context Chinese Painting Traditions Five Dynasties, Northern Song, Southern Song, Yuan Periods Attributed to Dong Yuan. WINTRY GROVES AND LAYERED BANKS. Southern Tang dynasty, ca. 950. Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. 59'6-5/8" × 3'9-7/8" (1.81 × 1.16 m). Attrib. Li Cheng (916-967), A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Mountain Peaks, Undated, Five Dynasties, Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Color on Silk, 111.8 x 56 cm, Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum Ma Yuan (late 12th-early 13th century), On a Mountain Path in Spring, Undated, Southern Song Dynasty, Album Leaf, Ink and Slight Color on Silk, H: 27.4 cm, National Palace Museum at Taipei Ni Zan (1301-1374), The Rongxi Studio, 1372, Yuan Dynasty, Hanging scroll, Ink on Paper, 74.7 x 35.5 cm National Palace Museum at Taipei Korean Painting Traditions Goryeo, Joseon Periods Seated Willow-Branch Gwanse’eum Bosal (The Bodhisattva of Compassion). Goryeo dynasty, late 14th century. Hanging scroll, ink, colors, and gold pigment on silk. Height 62" (159.6 cm). Arthur M. Sackler Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Kang Hui-an, A Lofty Scholar Contemplating Water, Joseon Dynasty, 15th century, 23.4 x 15.7 cm An Gyeon. Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land. Joseon dynasty, 1447. Handscroll, ink and light colors on silk. 15" × 41-3/4" (38.7 × 106.1 cm). Central Library, Tenri University. Jeong Seon. Panoramic View of the Diamond Mountains (Geumgang-san). Joseon dynasty, 1734. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper. 40-5/8" × 37" (130.1 × 94 cm). Lee'um, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul. Japanese Painting Traditions Muromachi, Momoyama, Edo Periods Catching a Catfish with a Gourd, by Josetsu. C. 1413, Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper. 43.9 in. x 29.9 in., Taizoin, Myoshinji, Kyoto. Attributed to Kano Eitoku. CYPRESS TREE. Momoyama period, 1590. Color, ink, and gold leaf on paper. 5'6-7/8" × 15'1-1/2" (1.7 × 4.6 m). Tokyo National Museum. Sesshu Toyo. Winter Landscape. (One of four hanging scrolls of the four seasons) Muromachi period, ca. 1470s. Hanging scroll, ink on paper. 18-1/4" × 11-1/2" (46.4 × 29.4 cm). Tokyo National Museum. Matsushima Screens, by Sotatsu 17th century. Ink, color, and gold leaf on paper. Each screen 59.9 x 140.5 in. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Attrib. Li Cheng (916-967), A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Mountain Peaks, Undated, Five Dynasties, Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Color on Silk, 111.8 x 56 cm, Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum Composition Color Brushwork Line and Form Subject Matter Mood Attrib. Li Cheng (916-967), A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Mountain Peaks (details), Undated, Five Dynasties, Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Color on Silk, 111.8 x 56 cm, Nelson Gallery- Atkins Museum Attrib. Li Cheng (916-967), A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Mountain Peaks (details), Undated, Five Dynasties, Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Color on Silk, 111.8 x 56 cm, Nelson Gallery- Atkins Museum Attrib. Li Cheng (916-967), A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Mountain Peaks (details), Undated, Five Dynasties, Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Color on Silk, 111.8 x 56 cm, Nelson Gallery- Atkins Museum Attrib. Li Cheng (916-967), A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Mountain Peaks (details), Undated, Five Dynasties, Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Color on Silk, 111.8 x 56 cm, Nelson Gallery- Atkins Museum Ren Xiong (1823-1857) Self-Portrait Undated, Qing Dynasty Hanging Scroll, Ink and color on paper, 177.4 x 78.5 cm Palace Museum, Beijing 1912, Fall of the Qing Dynasty Beginning of the Republic Gao Jianfu Lingnan School “new national painting” (xin guohua) “an art to save the nation” What characteristics of the synthesizing of Chinese and “foreign” art forms? How is this an example of the “new national painting” style? Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) Eagle, 1929 Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 167 x 83 cm Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) Eagle, 1929 Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 167 x 83 cm Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Tian Heng and His 500 Retainers, 1928-30, oil on canvas, 197 x 349 cm, Xu Beihong Memorial Museum, Beijing. Liu Haisu, Qian Men,1922, oil on canvas, 64 x 80 cm, National Art Museum of China, Beijing. 19th-20th centuries China Korea Taiwan Japan The Japanese Occupation of Taiwan 1895-1945 • Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) • Cultural development • Art • Assimilation • Western aesthetics • Fall of the Qing, 1912 Map of Taiwan, 1896 Taiwanese students drawing en plein air • No art school • Create a new artistic and modern style • “stepping forward” -western materials and methods • ‘colonized style’ • “western style” or “yōga” painters Modernization and Colonial Education in Taiwan A photograph showing the first Taiten in 1927 Modernization and Colonial Education in Taiwan Examples of “local color” (地方色彩) by Taiwanese artists Chen Chin, Ganshōka (Smiling Flowers) Chen Chin, Pestle Song, 1932 Kim Eun-ho, Miindo, 1935, ink and color on silk, 143 x 57.5 cm. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. Modernization and Colonial Education in Taiwan Examples of “local color” (地方色彩) by Taiwanese artists Chen Chih-chi, Danshui Landscape 1925-30 Liao Chi-chun, Plantain Garden, 1928 Chen Cheng-po in Japan 1924-1929 Chen Cheng-po in China 1929-1933 Chen Cheng-po, Afternoon at the Silk Shop, 89.4 x 115.5 cm, 1929, oil on canvas! Chen Cheng-po, 1895-1945 My Family, undated, Oil on canvas, 91x116.5 cm proletariat journal My Family 我的家庭 91x116.5 cm, undated. Diego Rivera, mural featuring Emiliano Zapata (detail)!.