The Paradise of Maitreya is a wall painting by famed painter and Buddhist monk Zhu Haogu and his pupil Zhang Boyuan. It is 502 cm in height and 1101 cm in length, and was created on the southwestern portion of the Xinghua monastery in 1298, during China’s Yuan dynasty. The painting is done through the dry fresco method on one of the clay walls of the monastery, with ink and rich colour pigments being used to create the image itself. The technique used to create this painting was appropriate likely due to the ease in which the surface of the wall could be prepared and covered with clay, and how the ink and colour medium was one that was already being used at the time. After being restored, it was shipped to Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum’s Bishop White Gallery, where it currently resides. Though the overall surface of the wall painting is smooth and flat due to the technique used and the clay on which the ink was applied, there are still faint lines and faded areas that are likely due to the passage of time and how the painting had to be taken apart while being transported.
The wall painting features Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future, sitting surrounded on both sides by two monks -standing immediately to the left and right, slightly to the back-, the ruling king and queen -sitting and in elaborate headdresses and robes, further left and right-, the crown prince and princess -standing between their parents and Maitreya-, and many other disciples and bodhisattvas -doing
Our lives are closely connected with an art. People easily regard an artwork as something that is far from our lives, but it is always around us. Now, I would like to introduce one of Buddhist artworks of Korea. The title is Pensive Bodhisattva. The artist is unknown. However, it was made in mid-7th century during the Three Kingdom Period. The dimension of this artwork is 8 7/8-inch and the medium is gilt bronze. It is located in Gallery 233 among other Korean artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art now.
Overall, it seems like there are many people in society now living in our present life. Their society is developing and improving a little bit because of people at the bottom with shackled hands whom are under the influence of the three figures who have a bigger dream and look at higher world. Each of them in the painting has an object on their hands. These seem to be important clues to interpret this painting. One is holding a book, second is holding a jar or flask and third one is holding handwriting, directing or measuring tools of an architect with compass. And there is a globe
The left side of the painting includes American icons such as Steve Irwin, Prince, Abraham Lincoln, and the “army” being led by George Washington. This could symbolize the American lifestyle that focuses and is represented mainly by society's take on who is important to the culture. This is often popular or influential celebrities, iconic presidents and/or leaders such as Abraham
The centerpiece of the piece is obviously Mary, though she is on the right side of the painting. In one hand she holds an open bible, and she holds her other hand up in prayer while she is looking down with her eyes almost completely shut. She has a halo surrounding her head as gold rays shine down on her
2. There are many people included in the artwork. I can see about twenty one people and some of there faces. There are two people in the middle and their names are Jesus and Judas. They both appear to be kissing. Judas's arms are around Jesus's neck. There is a soldier next to them. There is a guy in a pink robe pointing at Jesus and Juda.There are people surrounding them with sticks and some had torches. Since they are carrying fire it is safe to say that it is night time. Some of those people are followers and others are enemies of Jesus. They are all wearing robes. There is one person blowing on a white horn. All of the people in the painting are bare foot. Some of their expressions on their faces are anger. On the guy the guy on the left who is wearing blue is Peter. A
I chose to do my research paper on the colorful and extraordinarily detailed mural titled “Dhrtarastra (Dharma King of the East Direction) with 16 Attendants” by Shashi Dhoj Tulachand. Shashi is also known as Guru Nawang Chhogyall Tenzin is a 69 year- old spiritual leader of the Chhairo gompa, a branch of Tibetan Buddhism from Tuksche, a remote village located in Mustang, Nepal's northernmost district, adjacent to Tibet. He is a master in Buddhist thangka painting who is committed to re-establishing the lost teaching tradition of Chhairo gompa. Shashi comes from a long line of Buddhist artists, his father Kamal Dhoj Tulachan, and grandfather were responsible for many wall paintings and statues to be found in gompas, chortens and private household shrines in the villages of the Thak Kola and the upper Kali Gandaki area.
Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to
This painting consists of two small panels in which one panel depicts the crucifixion of Jesus and the other portrays scenes that associate themselves with the Last Judgement. In the first panel you can see a crowd surround Jesus during his crucifixion. In the background, you can see a clear picture of Jerusalem. On the bottom you can you see five people that appear to be
“Amida Buddha” (Figure 1) is a bronze figure created during the Kamakura Period, dated 1185-1333. The work is a figurative representation of Amida, who was highly worshipped during the Kamakura Period. The figure “Amida Buddha” is currently on exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum (2018) in Fort Worth, Texas as part of the Sam and Myrna Myers Collection, Lands of Asia Exhibition.
The first thing I noticed is a young two to four years old white boy on the right side of the painting. His left arm is around a male lion, and his right hand is holding a stick with some blue berries that resemble like grapes. At his right food is female lion and lamb laying on grass. Behind the lioness and the lamb is a hollow trunk of half a tree with yellow tree, a vine with the blue grape-like berries, green bushes, and hill that has orange tree and hollow tree trunk. On the boy’s left side is a white goat with black spots and leopard laying down on the dirt ground. Behind the male lion is a
The first element I look at to describe the painting was the title. Reading the title with the year gave me an idea of what the painting could be about, which in this case would be ambassadors during the Reformation of Europe. After beginning to view this piece of art, the first aspect I notice is located on the foreground of the painting which is a skull tilted to an angle where, if viewed from other perspectives, people could mistake it for another object. After recognizing the skull, I assumed the painting was a historical subject of the two figures standing or a narrative over these two-people standing proudly as if they accomplished a grand achievement through realism. Afterwards I concluded that the subject view would have been focused on the two men standing. The next object that caught my attention was those two men standing, especially the one standing in the lighter colored clothing. Soon after I examined the items in the background while trying to identify them. Most of the tools and other objects I couldn’t determine but it gives insight to how scholarly the two men could
The two main characters in the painting display elegant mannered poses and all the figures appear arranged in rather unnatural poses. There is a small scene at the foot of the Saint Catherine and Christ figures. This is thought to be the Christ child with the Virgin Mary and grandmother, Saint Anne. Below these two scenes are three smaller bordered scenes. The central one depicts two enemies reconciled by an archangel and the outer ones show Saints Michael and Margaret fighting demons. All these images show the triumph of good over evil, with the middle characters shedding their weapons and embracing. All these small pictures support that the painting was commissioned by Arigoi di Nero Arighetti to celebrate the end of a feud.
This painting represents the love of an woman towards her husband. Wife was pleading her husband not to go at war because she care about husband’s life. Which show that female women at that age till now cares about their husband.
To the right of him there is another pair of people who the lady is wearing a black hat, white pants and green shirt that is slightly bent over and her arm placed underneath the hunched over man in black pants and red shirt and hat which suggest she is holding the man up. To the lower right of this pair of people there is a woman in a murky yellow pants, red heels, a blue tank top and a black top hat. She has one arm wrapped around the arm of the man in dark green pants and white shirt and her other arm is underneath the man armpit, which implies she is holding him up. The last person you can see in the painting is a man in black who is kneeling over what appears to be another person lying on the ground due to the way the white pants leg is
In the center of the painting is Plato on the left and Aristotle on the right. These two are showing the two parts within philosophy, Timaeus and Ethics. The other philosophers on the sides are ‘corresponding to the separate schools of thought within the two major divisions, each carrying on the philosophical arguments for which they were famous (Fleming, 304). Plato: (428-c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher and one of the most creative and influential thinkers in Western philosophy. Plato founded the Academy in Athens, the institution often described as the first European