Chapter 8 Japan Sec.2 Japanese Nobles Create Great Art: Visual Art, Architecture, and Performing Arts

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Chapter 8 Section 2 Visual Art,
Architecture, Performing Arts in Japan
By Anaïs Teyton, Selena Ortega, Miharu Sugie
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Introduction

• Japanese nobles of Heian wanted to be surrounded
  by beauty elegance.
• They created a great center of learning and
  culture.
• This period was called the golden age of the arts
  and included fashion, literature, visual art,
  architecture, and performing arts.

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Visual Arts

• Popular painting, calligraphy, architecture
• Paintings - bright bold colors
• - represented scenes from
• stories, nature, court life
• - on paper doors furniture,
• scrolls, fans,
• Calligraphy
• - decorative writing
• - Poems looked as beautiful as they
• sounded.

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Architecture

• Nobles wanted to make their city beautiful
• Copied Chinese architecture - greatly admired
• - Heian city model of Changan
• Building style ends of wooden frame curved
  upward, natural, airy feel
• - Elegant gardens ponds, still popular
• today.

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Performing Arts

• Popular
• - Performances - musicians, jugglers acrobats.
• - Plays actors mimicked people.
• developed into drama called Noh
• - Noh plays
• 1.combines music, speaking, dance
• 2. teaches about great heroes of
  Japans past.

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Architecture
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Drama that developed from the Heian Period
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Noh
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Paintings
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Conclusion

• Japans nobles created the golden age of art.
• Next, Buddhism develops throughout Japan, along
  with the nobles arts.