Japanese Art & Design

In the 19^th century the Japanese art were looking also at sculptures, photographs, ceramics, lacquer work and also paperwork. This type of art is very interesting and they wanted to show different types of works on every object.  The prints were also important in their art but it began early in the 18^th century but till the 20^th century but overall they did around 5,500 prints.

If we look at the sculpture it began from the clay figure and they were strongly influenced from the Chinese sculpture. Their influence was not only from the Chinese but also from the Western. The sculptures were made from different local shops and these sculptures were found in front of houses or important buildings. Basically all the sculptures will be made for representing Buddha. You can say that the designs were all made traditional.

This is a sculpture that representing the Buddha

 After World War 2, the sculptors turned away from the figurative and were doing modernity. The inspiration was Western art and the materials and techniques were changing. They were doing new experimental sculptures for example they created optical illusion designs. This type of art and design was spread around Europe and also inspired and influenced from these sculptures. Nowadays the design was very impressive and it is very modern. The modernity itself changes the traditional by using different machinery to create detailed objects.

In Malta we did not see a lot near houses or important buildings but we had in gardens or Japanese restaurants some traditional art and designs. Basically the thing is that we did not see a lot but a little amount of sculptures. The thing is that the small amounts of sculptures that we had are very interesting and inspires many people such as artists and also tourists. Not only design we had in Malta but also photographs and Japanese prints. These are found in Japanese restaurants and also in our houses.

The is a lion statue.

This is were Japanese came influenced from the Chinese.

This photo has been taken in Malta at the Chinese garden, St'Lucija

Resource:

Kodansha International Ltd.The Virtual Museum of Japanese Art- Fine Arts-Sculpture.(Online) Available at < http://web-japan.org/museum/about_sc.html>