Ancient Rock-Color Art and Its Impact on Japanese and Chinese Illustration

Wenqi Feng
Illustration (School of Graduate Studies)

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Title
Ancient Rock-Color Art and Its Impact on Japanese and Chinese Illustration
Contributor Names
Feng, Wenqi (Author)
Reitschel, Barbara (Thesis advisor)
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Illustration (Degree granting institution)
Date
2022
Degree Information
M.A. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York 2022
Department: Illustration
Advisor: Barbara Reitschel
Committee member: Brendan Leach
Abstract
The rock painting is a type of ancient oriental color painting which has a history of thousands of years, it is made by grinding the rock mineral into powder and painting it with animal glue and vegetable gum. It has been widely spread in China and Japan since around A.D.900 to today. The color system of rock paintings consists of five categories: pure natural mineral color, new rock mineral color, water dry color, mica color, and glitter color, combining with metal foil to complete the work. Rock color will produce different visual effects when viewed from different angles. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the difference between the Rock-Color art’s impact on Japanese and Chinese illustration. In general, the Ancient Rock-Color Art makes contemporary Asia illustration more valuable for the exhibition because of its special material, and it makes the illustrations show strong oriental characteristics.
In the first part, the history of Rock-Color painting is presented. The difference and connection between the Rock-Color art of Asia and other regions are investigated. Then the thesis summarizes the feature of contemporary Japanese and Chinese Rock-Color painting. Then, it lists some Rock-Color painting teaching situation in these two areas over the past 10 years which influenced some illustrators and their work. A comparison of their characteristics and how the ancient technique has influenced them are present. Japanese rock color art has mature techniques and dark colors. Most of the paintings show static scenes. And the theme of Chinese rock color is diverse and the paintings are often combined with comprehensive materials.
In the second part, a few typical modern illustrators, such as Eri Iwasaki, Zhang Yu, Sheep and Li Juduo, in Japan and China with their work are enumerated and compared. Reports, interviews, and documents recording their words and other evidences are present to prove their impact.
In conclusion, the thesis proved the difference between the Rock-Color art’s impact on Japanese and Chinese illustration. Japanese Rock-Color illustration prefers to depict characters and details, but Chinese Rock-Color illustrations have more vivid colors which are closer to Dunhuang murals and prefer to the theme of the monster story.
Subject
Rock paintings
History
Illustrators
Japanese
Chinese
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FIT Repository ID: etd_000977
Type
Text
Thesis
Language
English

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Feng, W. (2022). Ancient Rock-Color Art and Its Impact on Japanese and Chinese Illustration [Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York]. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/179205
Feng, Wenqi. Ancient Rock-Color Art and Its Impact on Japanese and Chinese Illustration. 2022. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Master's thesis. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/179205
Feng, Wenqi. "Ancient Rock-Color Art and Its Impact on Japanese and Chinese Illustration." Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, 2022. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/179205