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Full-Text Articles in Asian Art and Architecture
Painting Taiwan's Modern Identity, Shelley D. Hawks
Painting Taiwan's Modern Identity, Shelley D. Hawks
2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference
Taiwan’s painters were dynamic contributors to a revolution in color that dramatically reshaped East Asian art. During the early twentieth century, new techniques of on-site sketching and the introduction of oil paint shook the foundations of Chinese and Japanese ink painting as it had been practiced for centuries. The Japanese colonization of Taiwan, a period when educators such as Ishikawa systematically introduced European painting methods, produced a cohort of painters in Taiwan professionally trained and committed to watercolor and oil painting. Building on international art trends like Impressionism and Fauvism, these painters developed a sense of color distinctly their own. …
Field And Factory: Chinese Revolutionary Posters, Molly E. Reynolds
Field And Factory: Chinese Revolutionary Posters, Molly E. Reynolds
Schmucker Art Catalogs
The images on display for Field and Factory, political propaganda used by the Communist Party of China during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, construct a fictitious world. In perceiving these kinds of illustrations, the audience is asked either to visualize the society in its ideal form or unify in opposition to a national enemy. In the first half of the twentieth century, before the possibilities of the television advertisement were fully realized, posters were one of the most popular forms of propaganda: cheap to produce in mass quantities and simple enough to hang in any public building. The art form’s …
Engendering Modern China: Visual Representations Of The Prc, Jennifer Lee
Engendering Modern China: Visual Representations Of The Prc, Jennifer Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Honors Papers
Propaganda posters have been one of many forms of political media used by modern governments such as the United States, Russia, England, and China, to spread a message across a large area to a wide audience. The popularity of the use of propaganda posters has sparked an interest in the study of posters. China has a long and varied history of the use of posters and propaganda posters. Pre-1949 propaganda posters, especially during the revolutionary period, used woodblock prints with stark lines and deep bright colors. Woodblock prints often employed yellow and red backgrounds to accent the black figures in …
Confucius Institute Fall 2013 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
Confucius Institute Fall 2013 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
The Confucius Institute Publications
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