_______________1. Art refers to the visual arts which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including
painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.
_______________2. Art form is an activity or a piece of artistic work that can be regarded as a medium of artistic
expression.
_______________3. Artwork refers to a work of art in the visual arts and a piece of conceptual art
Calligraphy is the art of “beautiful handwriting” with pen or brush with the use of ink, pait or watercolor on paper,
silk or any similar material.
_______________4. Crane is a large bird with long legs and a long neck that lives near water which is the most
common model in Japanese origami.
materials for purpose.
_______________5. Chinese Character or logograms in Calligraphy are used in the writing of Chinese (where they
may be called hanzi and Japanese (kanji). Such characters are also used, albeit less frequently, in Korean (hanja), and
were formerly used in Vietnamese (hán tự),
_______________6. Chinese theme is the artist’s subject of painting such as landscape, animals, bamboos,etc.
Design an organized arrangement of one or more visual elements, principles
_______________7. Medium refers to the type of material used to create artwork.
_______________8. Origami refers to the traditional Japanese art of paper folding.
_______________9. Palette is any material that can be used as a container for mixing colors in painting.
Principles of design are choice and arrangement of elements of art in an artwork.
_______________10. Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in
order to encounter and interact with the Spirit world
_______________11. Sinister suggests threat or suggests malevolence, menace, or harm
_______________12.Smudge is a path of spread ink or paint blurring what has been painted
_______________13. Treacherous or traitor betrays or ready to betray somebody's trust, confidence, or faith
_______________14. Ukiyo-e is a style of woodblock printmaking in Japan.
_______________15.Woodblock printing is the process that involves transferring and cutting pictures into wood
blocks, inking the surface of these blocks, and printing
_______________16. Yin-Yang- In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin-yang, which is often referred to in the
West as "yin and yang", literally meaning "shadow and light", is used to describe how polar opposites or seemingly
contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in
turn in relation to each other.
________________17. Yin-Yang Nature, Heaven and Humankind
,________________18. calligraphy is the art of beautiful handwriting.
________________19. logographs (ancient writing symbols) are engraved on the shoulder bones of large animals and on
tortoise shells
_________________20, the script found on these objects is commonly called jiaguwen, or shell-and-bone script.
Vertical Scroll
Lacquerware
Album- leaf
Horizontal Scroll
The ideologies of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism played important roles in East Asian art.
East Asian temples and houses have sweeping roofs because they believe that it will protect them from the elements of
water, wind and fire.
1. Straight inclined - more economical for common Chinese architecture
2. Multi-inclined - Roofs with two or more sections of incline. These roofs are used for residences of wealthy Chinese.
3. Sweeping – has curves that rise at the corners of the roof. These are usually reserved for temples and palaces
although it may also be found in the homes of the wealthy.
Guan Ju - Red indicates devotion, courage, bravery, uprightness and loyalty.
Huang Pang - Yellow signifies fierceness, ambition and cool-headedness.
Zhu Wen - A green face tells the audience that the character is not only impulsive
and violent, he also lacks self-restraint.
Zhang Fei - Black symbolizes roughness and fierceness. The black face
indicates either a rough and bold character or an impartial and
selfless personality.
Lian Po - Purple stands for uprightness and cool-headedness. While a
reddish purple face indicates a just and noble character.
Cao Cao - white suggests treachery, suspiciousness and craftiness. It
is common to see the white face of the powerful villain on stage.
Jiang Gan - The clown or chou in Chinese Opera has special makeup patterns
called xiaohualian (the petty painted face).