Nature In Art: East Asian Water Ink Painting & Calligraphy
Suffolk County Organization for Promotion of Education
45 hours, Three Credits
Contact: 631-360-0800
www.scopeonline.us
The purpose of this course is to learn about East Asian perceptions of nature as well as the techniques and media used to depict those perceptions. Participants are encouraged to apply the central theme of the course in awakening their appreciation of nature and transforming various forms of nature into art.
This course provides training in the fundamentals of traditional East Asian brush painting and calligraphy; its principles, subject matter based on four gracious plants, techniques and style. Representative works by great masters of the past as well as contemporary artists are used as models of brush work and composition.
At the outset of the course we will learn about the philosophical background of East Asian brush painting and calligraphy, as the scholars who practiced them were deeply affected by Taoist, Confucian and Buddhist values. East Asian brush painting is not merely a visual art; it is also a literary and philosophical one.
During the course we will visit the Chinese, Japanese and Korean galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Materials used by each participant include brushes, ink stone, ink stick, rice paper, felt, paperweight, tape, hardboard, seal pad, rubber and glue.
New York Standards
The following New York State standards are met by this course:
The Art:
Standard 1,2,3,4.
Mathematics, Science, and Tech:
Standard 6.
Laguages other than English:
Standard: 2.