Arts Q2

• East Asia is an area usually considered to include China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea, with each country having its own distinct cultures but also sharing a strong sense of conventions about how to behave in public.
• East Asian art expresses the human understanding of the relationship about nature and humans.
• East Asian countries have a vast range of influences of arts in terms of paintings, and architecture, including landscape painting, calligraphy, woodblock printing, face painting, paper folding/cutting and knot tying.
• East Asian arts and crafts play a very important role in their culture with unique styles and forms.
• East Asian arts and crafts are known for their wide variety of arts and crafts with excellent workmanship.
• Ikat weaving and dyeing in Asia demonstrates strong influences and tradition on arts.
• Aside from painting and architecture, East Asian arts and crafts are known for silk, batik and ikat.
• The ancient art of Ikat is believed to have originated in India, Indonesia and Japan, and was used to symbolize prosperity and high reputation.
• The Korean Wave includes the rise of Korean TV drama and K-pop as well as the popularity of their food and clothing styles.
• Filipino painters strive to create their own masterpieces using various motifs that show the Filipino expression of pride, attitudes, aspirations, and uniqueness.
• Modern Japan culture includes modern artworks such as manga (Japanese comic book), anime, video games, and cosplay.
• The Korean Wave is the term for the popularity of Korean entertainment and culture all over the world.
• Modern Japan culture provides entertainment not only to Japanese people but to other foreign cultures as well.
• Chinese influence can be seen in the use of brush by Filipino painters.
• Ikat is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles, used to resist or prevent the dye in covering the warp (lengthwise yarn) or weft (crosswise thread) thus creating a pattern prior to weaving.
• Traditional Chinese clothes usually adopted a straight cut and were loose in shape, while women's clothing had more ornaments, items and styles.
• Chinese kites were used to send messages and for measuring distances by the Chinese soldiers to gain information on the large armies moving on difficult terrain.
• Paintings can be mounted on scrolls, such as hanging or hand scrolls, album sheets, walls, folding screens, and other media.
• Gong-bi, described as court style painting, is an ancient form of painting that originated in the forbidden city of Beijing, China.
• Chinese Calligraphy expresses the abstract beauty of lines and rhythms through the organizational structure of lines and dots, while also reflecting a person’s emotions, moral integrity, character, and educational level, accomplishments in self-cultivation, intellectual tastes and approach to life.
• One of which is the Song ceramics which generally features simple shapes and a single color, and is considered the classical pinnacle of Chinese ceramics.
• For the Chinese people, kites hold significant symbols in their culture and traditions.
• In the Ancient times, Chinese made their kites using wood and cloth.
• Knot Tying is a Chinese decorative handicraft art that began as a form of Chinese folk art in the Tang and Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) in China.
• Calligraphy, a visual art related to writing, is associated with painting according to Chinese people.
• Ceramics are another item produced by Chinese Dynasties.
• Kites were used to mimic bird’s natural flight to calculate and record wind readings and provide a unique form of communication.
• As an old Chinese saying goes, “the way characters are written is a portrait of the person who writes them”.
• A kite is an assembled or joined aircraft that was traditionally made of silk or paper with a bowline and a resilient bamboo.
• East Asian temples and Houses have sweeping roofs because they believe that it will protect them from the elements of water, wind and fire.
• Calligraphy is an earliest writing technique using a flat edged pen to produce creative lettering using thin and thick lines depending on the direction of the stroke.
• The art of beautiful handwriting is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used.
• Shui Mo, Ink and Brush painting, expresses the Abstract beauty of lines and rhythm through the organization structure of lines and dots and it reflects a person’s emotions.
• The main reason why Chinese made kites is for military purposes.
• Chinese kites also represent mythological characters, symbolic creatures and legendary figures.
• The performers from Japan and China usually paint their faces depending on the character or personification they are portraying.
• There were four kinds of suyat that were continuously used when the colonization ended: Hanunoo and Buhid script of the Mangyan people in Mindoro, Tagbanwa script of the people in Central and Northern Palawan, and Ibalnan baybayin script of the Palaw’an people.
• Each suyat script has its own suyat calligraphy.
• Chinese ceramics are known to have the finest quality since China is rich with raw materials needed for making ceramics.
• Suyat are indigenous scripts that many ethnic groups in the Philippines used.