Japanese Calligraphy

Japanese Calligraphy is called also Shodo. It is a name that is based in a Chinese way and have around seven syllable and it is one of the most popular fine art of Japan.It has this type of name because sho means calligraphy. This type of art is a brilliant type of art to write beautiful. This work usually is made by a bamboo brush, ink and rice paper.  It gives you nice harmony and grace. It is a beautiful type of art trough it simplicity work. It is influenced from the Japanese wabi wabi as a main principle.

It is a very different calligraphy from the others , like the forms and the lines , the way the way they do them. They make a  balance between each point to a line and also the blank space.

They usually make them as a poem based on Chinese while they use Japanese calligraphy. Now a day this calligraphy had expended.

This art is mostly important about the sense of how you apply it not the value of the brush. The value and elegance of the lines that they apply shows how good the work is. In this type of art each line and symbol has a meaning , so he create his own something.

The work usually will transmit a type of sucsess, light , love, pleasure, creativity and any thing that makes a person happy.

This usually we can find them in a class of fighting arts, ceremony ect.. There are also some traditional calligraphy that transfer l be little words. They usually will be written on a white paper which represent emptiness and a black sings  so it will be like a Yin and Yang [man and woman] 

Shodo - Art of Japanese calligraphy. 2013. Shodo - Art of Japanese calligraphy. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.japancalligraphy.eu/. [Accessed 20 May 2013].

Traditional Japanese Calligraphy. 2013. Traditional Japanese Calligraphy. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.takase.com/JapaneseCalligraphy/Traditional.htm. [Accessed 20 May 2013].

Sculpture in Japanese art

Sculpture in Japanese art  is not the earliest form but it is a long lasting art that has the most expressive way that people can express. Unlikely the Japanese island are poor in stone and wood so they couldn't express this art how they wanted because it was limited but they also used to work with clay, dry lacquer and bronze. they used to produce art from all these material the sculptures but they used to work a lot with wood.
The first sculptures  appeared in Japan in the began of 2200 BC. In the Joman period there was twist in the decorations because they began to make cover of clay in pots. In this period most of the work was made with clay and they used to make a lot of figurines so some used to say that they where dolls for children or pictures of Japanese details. Some strange sculpture in this period art the small figures with a hearth shape and a small circuit mouth.

Haniwa- made with clay

After hundred of years they still continued to use traditional material. One that had a lot of followers was the clay cylinders that where called Haniwa. 
This work where used to be made near the Japanese emperors and some important officials.These where used to be covered with dirt and used to be kept form being washed. They where simple shapes and used to be inspired from human or animal forms or even building and houses some times.




One of the most influence that was very important in the sixth century was the Buddhism.This religion began in India and Japan. By this many sculpture in this period had a touch of Japanese feel. These used to use wood, bronze, and gold material. Before they used to make also wooden status from trees. Mostly in this period they never used to use stone.


the art of japan: sculpture: history. 2013. the art of japan: sculpture: history. [ONLINE] Available at:http://library.thinkquest.org/27458/nf/sculpture/history.html. [Accessed 18 May 2013].

Background of the Japanese Art

Japanese Art is known as a decorative art that has a breath of originality and stand for it`s own style. before it was discovered this style there was the Palaeolithic culture . In this style there wasn't any evidence , there was only artifacts of Neolithic people. Japan was occupied by these people until the 19 century.

The Dolmen Period : 
This period had began earlier than the second century as there originality were drove to northward, agriculture and administration. In Korea they found toms and few had been opened. They found bronze swords, mirrors, iron swords and more. Near the most important tombs they made used to make cylinders made with ceramics , and the top they used to have figures of men or animals that reflects Japanese art. During this period they also discovered ideographs and Korean syllabary in Japan. Trough the end of this period  Japan had relations with one of the three kingdoms of korea and by this the first Buddhist reached Japan.

The Asuka Period :548-645
This period is named for the area near Nara were the court introduced Buddhism. It was a new religion that had different ideas, meanings and images. It also incorporate Chinese writing, history, coins and more, these had a very high impact trough society aspects of Japanese.
Till the eighth century there had been changes in the thrones and more taxes had been added to the people form a new emperor. He was a Chinese emperor and by constructing large temples this was the most active period trough the county. The capital city was removed  after 3/4 of a century  and Nara was built and it has an enormous cost.

The Nara Period : 645-793
Before this period there had been a lot of changes every time the capital was moved. So in 710 there was a an emperor that had been there for 77 years. This period there was more peace  in china and there where frequently reactions with Chinese court. Buddhism had influence on the arts, including sculpture, painting, and lacquerware. It was during this period, in 752, that a great bronze image of Buddha was made in the Temple in Nara. It is the largest Buddha statue in Japan. Also during this period they developed new techniques of Japanese art. 


The Heian Period : 794-1184
In the 794 , the capital city was moved to Heiankyo[Kyoto]. In this period fashion had more importance in the new streets. Trough this period there was a lot of peace and the noble people had the chance to experiment more in arts and in there culture because they didn't used to take interest. There where also new ideas in Japan that came mainly from china and become Japanese culture. For the first time writing in Japanese system was legal in the culture , one of them is Tale of Genji and PillowBook , these where the most popular.


The Kamakura Period : 1185-1337
Trough this period there where some influence from the attitude in art . Two of these are a development in Kamukura art, one is developed from old fashioned art and the other from Sung art late in the twelfth century. Here we can see the difference by Unkei style to vivid work trough realism.The last sculpture was made in this period of a school.The Buddhist art also changes there style and become more similar to the Japanese art, they represent naturalistic and divinities art.  They used to make portrait in a very free way that was influenced from Sung art. 
This period had introduced the ceramic work into Japan and one of the most important was Dogen that after was known as Toshiro.



The Muromachi and Momoyama Period : 1336-1598
When the kamakura government fall and changed  for a long time they accepted Muromachi in Kyoto in 1336. He used to build villas like Golden and Silver pavilion, Temples and big garden, which is the most attraction nowadays.This was also a time of new cultures with flower arranging and most of all landscapes landscape gardening.



The Edo Period : 1603-1868
In this period the art work in sculptures used to be repetitive  , with an out standing design like the work of Hidari Jingoro that is in Nikko. In paintings the Kano school continued to be built but it lost the design of originality. Also in this period there was three brothers that used to work in pottery and Lacquer. These used to look trough Honami Koestu.
The furniture in this period was becoming more elaborate with designs and new techniques. They began to use a cast bronze with a Chinese manner. They were taking a lot of influence from European color prints.

After 1868 the Japanese art began to influence Europe and had influence from the Western Impact and the Industrial Revolution.

Japan National Tourism Organization | Plan Your Trip | Essential Info | A Brief History. 2013. Japan National Tourism Organization | Plan Your Trip | Essential Info | A Brief History. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/arrange/essential/overview/history.html. [Accessed 18 May 2013].

Asuka and Nara Periods (538–794) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. Asuka and Nara Periods (538–794) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/asna/hd_asna.htm. [Accessed 18 May 2013].

Jean Paul Gaultier - Contemporary Fashion Design Artist

Jean-Paul Gaultier is a French artist that specific in fashion design. He was born in 24 April in 1952 in Arcueli, Val-de-Marne, France. He never had been learning in a formal school he was from young drawing sketches of fashion designs  of his way.When he was a child he used to develop his ideas from his grandmother in her closet wardrobe. Only when he was at an age of 13 he began making some designs for her mother and grandmother also. He used to always look for fashion magazine to see what was the trend  and to take ideas. When he used to see all the top designers he used to send some of his sketches and one day he send the sketches to Pierre Cardin and Jean Patou and saw some talent so they helped him. These where the most two fashion designers,  that recognized his talent , so they helped him to success the way he succeeded now a day.  He began to work as an assistant for Cardin and then he also moved to Jean Patou. When he was around he was a lot influenced by the work of Yves Saint Laurent.  After he returned to Cardin and there he began as a designer.

Gaultier is the designer that opened the fashion on skirts on a man in the 1980`s and then he also design the cone bra that Madonna worn in the 1990`s. Then In the 1976 he made his first exhibition of fashion design  with his own runway that was made in Paris. After that he opened a business for his own.  He changed the fashion so he was used to be called the bad boy  of the fashion. He changed the styles to punk and street style . He invented the leather jacket  with a sneakers and a skirt. He is also popular for the sailor sweater and jaunty trench-coat, This was made with his first collection and he had help from his parents. The dresses where very funky , playful and extraoisrdinary, but he had a lot of complains.

After in the 1997 he had the money so he can open his own collection of dress. 

After that he opened a business for his own.  He changed the fashion so he was used to be called the bad boy  of the fashion. He changed the styles to punk and street style . He invented the leather jacket  with a sneakers and a skirt. 

He was called the` Enfant terrible` that means bad boy. in the world of fashion. Jean Paul Gaultier now a days  he is a big businessman how loves to create different and inovitev clothing. He became popular tough his creativity and his character because he never gave up to his dreams. His work isn`t popular only for clothing but also for jewelry.

Now a day he include also perfume , one of them has the cone bra-shape bottle .He made his first perfume in the 1993 for woman. He exploded a lot in his designs so now he design menswear, ready to wear, and more.. He also began to design furniture and wine bottles.

In the 2003 he became a chief designer at Hermes. His work also began to be used in the films "Dangerous Liaisons," "City of Lost Children," and "The Fifth Element.".

In the exhibition that he had of the Spring / Summer collection in the 2005 one of the most inspiration that he had was the Africa Bold Colours and animal print.

Some of his work :

This is the cone bra dress that he made for Madonna and it is dress on a model.

This is one of the perfume that he made but the bottle was  the inspired by the cone bra of Madonna.

This is a design of  handbag  made of leather . It has a classic design that has a professional look.

This is a wedding dress that is designed in a very original way.

Here we can see that he also design  normal clothes but in his fashion trend.

All About Jean Paul Gaultier. 2013. All About Jean Paul Gaultier. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.essortment.com/jean-paul-gaultier-44766.html. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Constructivism Architecture :

Constuctivism is a type of art that had began in Russia in the late 1913. This type of art reflects geometric and abstract forms of art , and by that it will reflect his name and his characterized level of technical and perfection. It had been started before the Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1935

This is a type of Architecture of a glass tower that is made by the designer Valdimir Tatin. This Is structure that was made in this movement, in the late 1920- 1930. It was designed for the new socialist regi me in Russia. These used to call the self constructivists because they believe that  the design can be made in constructions. There work used to be in abstract form and used to have a lot of emphasize on geometric forms that are functional.
This designs used to be combined a lot with engineering and technology. These architects wanted to make a different idea trough the human and architecture to developed an innovative  design.
This most famous architecture was never built. This unbuilt project  was called Tatlin`s Tower and it was made with spiral forms so they can reflect to us as the revolution of the people in the World War I. Inside it was going to be made with three glass-walled build units and a cube, pyramid and a cylinder would go around i different speeds. It was going to be about 400 meters long so , it would be bigger than the Eiffel Tower of Paris if you could recombinant them. This was going to cost them a lot of money and would be one of the biggest building. Even that this tower wasn`t been built this design helped the Constructivism movement a lot trough the design. 
After 1920 the Constructivism  been spread out alover , so many people used to call them self like them. So after some years they fade away.

Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. 2013. Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Pop Art

Pop Art had began in Britain in the 1950`s. The first pop art painting was made from the group that called them self the Independent group. They were a part of the institute of Contemporary art.

The Pop Art is an art that appreciate every different culture, it doesn`t critique the concept because it is a simple art that shows the nature fact of the word.

By this type of art much more magazines and advertisement where sold because it was effecting the mass production to the people by movies, theater, television, newspaper and mostly magazines.  By this people where expressing them self in a different way not as the usually detail art.
Pop art is the movement that modern art came in and it was in the late 1970`s. This was a contemporary art and also it had some modernism style that had been part of this movement by making   the art like a mirror of the society made in a contemporary way.
Then after time this art fadded and there was the Post modernist.

The Pop art is an art that has a recognizable image that is drown by different media. They usually use bright colors. The picture will be flat and it was influenced from comic books. they used to us celebrities faces on  comic book or magazines made with this technique.












Pop Art - Art History Basics on Pop Art - mid-1950s to Early 1970s. 2013. Pop Art - Art History Basics on Pop Art - mid-1950s to Early 1970s. [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernarthistory/a/Pop-Art-Art-History-101-Basics.htm. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Exhibition Of Mr.Chircop

This is a visit in the 8 April made by Mr. Chircop in the Malta tourism Studies.

This is an abstract painting made on canvas. It is made with bright acrylic colors.  In this painting  we can see that in his abstract work we can see faces as you see it in more detail and even figures.
For me this painting is one of the best because usually I don`t like abstract art , but this painting effected be a lot.





In this painting we can see that it is an abstract piece that has a lot of force as a painting.  This type of feeling is build by the color that he used that we made by a lot of thinking. He used different techniques like splashing and strong brush strokes.
As a painting it gives you a lot of life and that`s why this was one of my choosing painting. It shows that the artists wanted to show his feelings.







This painting has a lot of color mixed together in a bright way. He used as a base colors mixed and blended together and then he made splashes with the brush with white color. He didn`t made the splashes every where , but he made them with a thinking to show a strong force as I saw it.







This painting has is like in a forest made in a different abstract way. It has some brush strokes on the right corner  that are made in an interesting way. If you look closely you can see that you can see an animal face. The most interesting thing is that these paintings in every corner you see the image can be different.





In this painting we can see that it has a lot of textures, but it is made like three sections of colors.
One the top he used natural colors we stroke texture and in the middle he used a cerulean blue with a lot of water so he could make that texture.