Topic: 2nd February & 2nd March 2023 -- "Japan Art"

To view our artwork from this topic click -HERE- From Maxine Here are some options to think about - try searching some of these on Google - prefacing the search with the word 'Japanese': Country and culture Costume - Japanese costume/Kabuki theatre, sumo, Landscape - Spring time, cherry blossom, blossom festival, Autumn, maple leaves, Mount Fuji Gardens - Tea house, Zen, Kyoto, Minka style houses, interiors, Ikebana flower arrangments Animals and birds - Macaque monkeys, Tanuki, Tsushima leopard cat, crane, kingfisher, white eyed bird, ducks, geese Art and techniques: 'Ma' - The space between 'Nihonga' - Watercolour soft edge technique 'Shodo' - Calligraphy Block prints - 19th Century, flat blocks of colour, highly influential to Impressionists/Cubists in Europ Artists Makoto Fujimura Japanese/American artist working now - 'Slow art' Nihonga style Website: Makoto Fujimura Hokusai - Printmaker and illustrator 'The Great Wave' and so many more! Kawao Tomoko - Shodo artist and calligrapher on a giant scale - BBC Four - The Art of Japanese Life, Series 1, Home, The Way of Shodo: artist Tomoko Kawao BBC4 Japan Season: Idents - BBC Arts - Japan, BBC Four Japan Season - Channel Ident 1 Quiet, calm landscape The cherry tree BBC Arts - Japan, BBC Four Japan Season - Channel Ident 2 Mount Fuji BBC Arts - Japan, BBC Four Japan Season - Channel Ident 3 BBC - Japan - Full listing of clips and programmes When east inspired west: the extraordinary influence of Japanese art | Art UK - An article to read Dr James Fox - The Art of Japanese Living BBC The Art of Japanese Life Episode 1׃ Nature (2017) HD Rus.Sub - video Dailymotion Monty Don - Japanese Gardens - BBC - clip BBC Two - Monty Don's Japanese Gardens, Series 1, Episode 1, Zen Garden