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- Though there have been dramatic shifts in Asia’s landscapes and culture over centuries, today, Asian artists continue this longstanding tradition, promoting the idea that man is not only an integral part of the natural world, but that a connection with nature is vital for his personal growth and well-being.
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While environmental conditions differ from place to place, contact with nature has been a universal human experience. It’s therefore not surprising that natural motifs—plants, animals, water, the sky—adorn works of art across all cultures and are a consistent source of inspiration and meaning. Open Image. Jar.
- MA li – China
- Jeeyoung Lee – Korea
- Pom – Thailand
- Kubo Tomonori – Japan
- Aida Sulova – Kyrgyzstan
Ma Liis a Chinese born and San Francisco based artist who has gained attention for her “Treasure from Trash.” The work features a variety of elements that are assembled in an oneiric way, where form morphs into a new life. Plastic bottles transform into suspended fields of jellyfish-like sculptures, and coloured foam and clothes hangers resemble mi...
Last September, South Korean artist JeeYoung Leetravelled from Seoul to Brooklyn to artistically address the problem of maritime pollution by standing in a warehouse in Williamsburg, whilst surrounded by piles of New York City trash. JeeYoung composed her installation “Ocean of Creativity,” using the horrific debris dumped by man at sea, such as pl...
Prasopsuk Lerdviriyapiti, a.k.a. Pom, is a passionate ecologist focused on spreading awareness about the contamination of our oceans through art. She transforms plastic rubbish retrieved from the beaches of her native Thailand into art pieces. The matter resonates strongly with her, since she lives on the (formerly pristine) island of Phuket and wi...
As a sommelier who works in a store specialised in French wines, Kubo Tomonorinoted there was an enormous amount of cork going into the rubbish – so he decided to immortalise the waste into works of art. He began in 2014 by making portraits of notable French people, such as Marc Chagall, Napoleon and Coco Chanel, but eventually expanded to other il...
Kyrgyz street artist Aida Sulovaaddresses the problem of waste management from an unusual angle. Instead of utilising rubbish in her artwork, she goes to the heart of the matter: she beautifies the places where our garbage is stacked, i.e. the trash cans in our cities. Aida uses the litter bins of her native town Bishkek as a canvas to portray phot...
In no other cultural tradition has nature played a more important role in the arts than in that of China. Since China’s earliest dynastic period, real and imagined creatures of the earth—serpents, bovines, cicadas, and dragons —were endowed with special attributes, as revealed by their depiction on ritual bronze vessels.
Chinese landscape painting. by The British Museum. Landscape painting is traditionally at the top of the hierarchy of Chinese painting styles. It is very popular and is associated with refined scholarly taste. The Chinese term for “landscape” is made up of two characters meaning “mountains and water.”
GALLERY 2600 | EAST ASIAN ARTPaintings Inspired by the resilience and beauty of nature’s flora and fauna, Chinese and Korean poets and artists have over the centuries imbued a variety of plants and animals with auspicious meanings and scholarly virtues.
Inspired by the beauty and resilience of nature’s flora, East Asian poets and artists have imbued a variety of plants and flowers with auspicious meanings, literary resonances, and moral overtones.
