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chinese art

started by lili_teng_foti on 26 Sep 10
  • Liza Noone
    #2 Liza Noone on 27 Sep 10
     
    Chinese art is extremely varied and diverse. Ranging from architecture, to painting, to sculpture, as well as monuments, Chinese admired their religion, rulers, and warriors through their artwork.
    For the group project, I think that we should each cover a different medium of Chinese art work, where one person would cover painting, another architecture, another sculpture, etc.
    I also think that it would be beneficial to divide these individual presentations into time periods, beginning with the earliest record of Chinese art, and ending with modern day art pieces.
    Our presentation should be very visual, with many slides being entirely pictures.
    I also believe a worksheet or sampling would be helpful to distribute to our classmates.
  • lili_teng_foti
    #3 lili_teng_foti on 27 Sep 10
     
    Great ideas, Liza. What are other members' ideas?
    Here is a website that you might find helpful for your presentation: http://arts.cultural-china.com/ I bookmarked it for the class group, too.
  • Thomas Keeley
    #4 Thomas Keeley on 27 Sep 10
     
    I agree with Liza in regards to the outline of our group project. If we split our presentation into four parts and then each of those into 3 main time periods, for example, the four parts could be Painting, Architecture, Sculpture, and Monuments, and the three time periods could be ancient China(3000 BC - 1 AD), middle-aged China (1 AD - 1900s), and modern China (1900's - today). These don't have to be the time periods/topics but where there is four of us, this could move smoothly.
    I also think that our main focus should be on pictures and perhaps even videos once we get into Modern Chinese Art.
    The "worksheet" stated above can also have some definitions on it or key factors that were used in the creation of these various art forms
  • Thomas Keeley
    #5 Thomas Keeley on 27 Sep 10
  • Matthew Achariam
    #8 Matthew Achariam on 29 Sep 10
     
    I guess we can workout how to structure it as we gather more information. I know of a recent Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, who is gaining quite a bit of popularity and his work was featured in the Guggenheim. I heard of him last year and find his work really fascinating, especially his process. He definitely fits into the modern art section. I've included a link to his website.

    http://www.caiguoqiang.com/
  • Liza Noone
    #9 Liza Noone on 29 Sep 10
     
    I think it is a good idea to split up our research by time period as well as by medium, and perhaps the chinese characters could fit into the painting category. Also, we could do a separate section focusing primarily on modern Chinese art, such as the artist, Cai Gui-Qiang who Matt mentioned.
    I found a few links regarding the different areas of art that we would like to cover.
    Chinese Painting --> http://www.chinatownconnection.com/history-of-chinese-painting.htm
    Chinese Architecture --http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/china1.htm
    Chinese Monuments --http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/china/china.html
    Modern Chinese Art --http://www.artscenechina.com/
    Hopefully this helps!
  • lili_teng_foti
    #10 lili_teng_foti on 01 Oct 10
     
    I am glad to see that you found great information on the internet. It would be great if you can bookmark a few, share your ideas by making highlights, comments and notes in Diigo, and exchange your thoughts on the links/information you will be using for the presentation
  • Thomas Keeley
    #11 Thomas Keeley on 01 Oct 10
     
    Heres a video with modern Chinese Art

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wrdp9Su56w
  • Liza Noone
    #13 Liza Noone on 02 Oct 10
     
    So as of now, would we all like to stick to each picking a type of art and presenting on that type of art, its history, and progression?
    If we stick to this idea, I would be willing to cover Chinese Painting, and expand on its history throughout time, as well as modern day Chinese Painting.
    I just talked to Alec and he said that he would be possibly interested in doing chinese monuments/pottery, but feel free to change if you would like.
    Matt, maybe you can do Chinese characters if thats what you're interested in, and maybe Tom can do architecture.
    Feel free to disregard this idea, and switch your topic if you would like.
    As of now, I plan on researching Chinese painting from its earliest account, and possibly add a few videos/demonstrations that I find through my research.

    would any of you be free sunday afternoon to go over our presentation at cool beans or something?
  • Thomas Keeley
    #14 Thomas Keeley on 02 Oct 10
     
    I was wondering if i could do the Chinese characters, but if Matt wants them its all good.
  • Thomas Keeley
    #15 Thomas Keeley on 02 Oct 10
     
    This is a great link for architecture, and it has links connected to it for specific types of Chinese architecture

    http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/architecture/
  • Liza Noone
    #17 Liza Noone on 03 Oct 10
     
    Does everyone want to meet at 4 at cool beans?
    I think it might be a good idea to incorporate a video component into our presentation, instead of just lecturing.
    I found a few videos on youtube that are demonstrations of how various forms of art are made -->
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_rIlSL9hY a tutorial video of an artist using water color paint to paint a plum blossom branch
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xitrftw4EPM - a video of entirely pictures of Chinese sculptures/monuments
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ghtJolXC8 - video of an artist painting Chinese characters
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq6TJ8ORgYc&feature=related - a video on Chinese traditional architecture and the craftsmanship behind it
  • Matthew Achariam
    #18 Matthew Achariam on 03 Oct 10
     
    Can we do 5 instead?
  • Liza Noone
    #19 Liza Noone on 03 Oct 10
     
    Yup, 5:00 is fine.
  • Thomas Keeley
    #20 Thomas Keeley on 03 Oct 10
     
    yeah 5:00's great

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