Traditional Korean art also has Tigers. One wonders if the scholar painter might have seen a tiger from a distance as this is somewhat more accurate than depictions based on seeing a tigerskin rug?
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Showing posts with label korean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label korean. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Kingfisher Blues
Kingfisher Blues
Two Examples of Korean Blue and White Ware
#korean #ceramics
Two Examples of Korean Blue and White Ware
#korean #ceramics
Who ever throw these vase shapes was a master of their craft with skills equal to the finest Chinese potters. Korean painting while always vigorous on ceramics and other medium shows both a "folk" style with broad strong bold strokes and yet also very refined minimalism images like the bamboos in the top image.
Its also noteworthy how beautifully Korean paintings on ceramics flow around the form whether faceted or smooth.
The koreans also tend to avoid overall complicated patterns unlike some chinese pieces covered from footing to brim.
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Thursday, 18 July 2013
MIAO TEMPLE
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As far as I can make out from conflicting definitions in the references I have access to Miao is a word originally used to describe audience halls for officials and royalty and now used for shrines tutelary temples and and Confucian temples. However Confucian "Temples" are usually compounds including study halls and shrines for deified scholars and ancestors of local clans and sometimes shrines for local deities. I suspect it depends given the on and off hostility between some Taoists and Confucianists on how strict an interpretation of Confucianism is followed and taught at the particular shrine.
Possibly the best place to see Confucian shrines is now Taiwan or South Korea?
I've read but not seen of Indonesian and Malaysian Shrines being called LI TANG which means something like Ritual Halls.
Monday, 29 October 2012
Thursday, 20 September 2012
The 3 History Jis
There are several words and characters for History in Chinese.
Here's 3 of them that are very similar in sound although written with different characters.
What's the reason for this?
Bamboo Books!
Well books made of long bamboo or wooden strips.
Side bound paper books and scrolls of paper or silk were a later development.
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Hot Words Four
My apologies if I posted this before !
I've been checking the prior posts to make sure nothing accidently stayed at the draft stage due to a technical glitch earlier in the year when I changed browsers.
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