Art & Society Fall 2015

                            On the metropolitan museum of Art website, I searched up Japanese art. I found a drawing  by an Japanese artist. The drawing has six objectives.The lines on the drawing are horizontal and diagonal. There is a lot of negative space on the drawing.The background shows Japanese characters. In this picture,there are opposite colors,red and blue. Red is one of the warm colors. Blue is one of the cool colors.The texture is implied because it is on screen.In the drawing, it looks like a beautiful, Japanese woman in a kimono. On her right side, it looks like she is holding an object. The pattern on her dress is a picture of the water and the trees.I wonder why the artist decided to draw this picture. It is true that Japanese woman wore kimonos in ancient times, but why would the artist have the woman holding a strange object. The object looks like a horn. I am interested in Japanese art because of how the artist draw different flowers or how they draw people in ancient times. This picture symbolizes beauty. A Japanese woman with long black hair and pale skin shows beauty in society.This picture was made during  the Edo period, from 1615 through 1868. The culture is Japanese. The medium the artist used is a hanging scroll, ink, and color on paper.The artist name is kaigetsudō Ando. According to the philsopher Goodman, Realism is relative to the system of representation. This drawing can be real according to the time period.