Eisen - Water Dragons

 #Eisen #dragon 

Lets finish off the Dragon series with this splendid Eisen Print !

These three toed water dragons are just as impressive as their five toed Imperial Kin despite being blue gray and not golden yellow. 

Such a wonderful composition too intertwining but not tangled spirals and curves full of energy and strength!

AUTUMN MOON

#autumnmoon, #moon, #shinhanga 

 Actually I have no idea what time of the year this image was set but it shows a full moon and its Autumn / Spring moon next festival and its gorgeous Shin Hanga Print!

Here's wishing any and all of my viewers readers and followers an enjoyable festival!

Don't overdo it with those Moon Cakes!

RED QING DRAGON

RED QING DRAGON 

 #dragon #Qing #ceramics

 This one of those masterpieces of Qing Ceramics that are almost too clever in their combination of technique and imagery. Why?

That particular red hue was quite difficult to achieve. Reds from either copper or iron had to have special firings within certain temperature ranges. In addition to the perfect coloring of the glaze and the detailed complex painting whoever made the pot sprigged carved or molded a raised area for the dragons! # different artisans and technicians combined their skills into this exquisite vessel. 

Dragons 3D

#dragons #sculpture  

DRAGONS 3D - A medley 

(in Asian sculptures) 

Dragons don't just feature on Ceramics Prints and Paintings. 

Here's some 3D imagery.

From Korea a sculpture in metal.

Vietnam a stone balustrade both sculpture and architecture 

this Japanese sculpture has movable parts  !

 and a second Vietnamese Dragon 

low relief ceramic 

Japanese Embroidered Dragon

JAPANESE EMBROIDERED DRAGONS

White and Gold Threads on a Red background. 

Note the variety of Stitch types used to create depth and texture.

More dragons yet to come !

 

Dragons in Tibetan ART

A Medley of Dragons from Tibet 

#dragons #tibet #tibetan #tibetanart 

 A pair of lively colorful dragons - note the different way of rendering clouds.

The Tibetans seem to have preferred their dragons speckled ?

though this pair are more like Chinese dragons but notice the distinct mountain peak motif! 

Notice the use of blue and white in this Tibetan work. Bold and beautiful!

Mongolian and other minority scripts

An example of several scripts being used side by side.

#savemongolianlanguage #mongolian #manchu #tibetan 

Once upon a time a calligrapher or perhaps a team of calligraphers got together and designed this sign for a buddhist temple in which you can see 4 different scripts Tibetan Mongolian Manchu and Chinese Hanzi arranged in a layout that allows all of them "equal" footing. 

Apparently the Sinicized Manchu Qing rulers had more respect for minority languages than certain modern Han and other bureaucrats in Inner Mongolia and Beijing  who are trying to back pedal on previous policies and lessen hours of Mongolian language instruction in schools in which the Mongolian language and script is suppose to be the PRIMARY Medium of education.

Personally as a student and user of a variety of scripts, Roman, Hanzi, and others, I have often wished we have had multi lingual instruction introduced at an earlier level of schooling.

But Australia only has one majority language of instruction you might object?

Yes but we support community and correspondence and other classes for minority languages many of which can be studied at HSC level allowing students credits towards university entry.

Okay not Mongolian the community is too small ... and sadly the Hokkien and Hakka speaking communities do not get the same recognition as Cantonese or Putonghua but 

DIVERSITY IS GOOD 

DIVERSITY INSPIRES GOOD DESIGN 

so if you see anyone posting on social media but Chinese or any other language  is the majority language support bilingualism. Multilingualism Too! 

I'll finish with another example of Han - Mongol cultural interchange leading to diversity and design.

Mongolian can be written with a pen or brush. Here we see a Han calligraphy technique applied to Mongol script. But typography is important too. With modern use of Unicode Mongolian and Chinese can be applied to a variety of usages street signs calligraphy BILINGUAL TEXT BOOKS 

so I type and encourage you to do so too 

#SAVEMONGOLIANLANGUAGE