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Video: Porcelain Kendi, Part 2—Painting in Cobalt
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Porcelain artist Yuki Nyhan demonstrates the painting of a kendi, the basic form of the Art Institute's Chinese ewer. She paints botanical designs with cobalt pigment, using different brushes and...
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Video: Porcelain Kendi, Part 2—Painting in Cobalt
Video: Porcelain Kendi, Part 1— Recreating Forming
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Porcelain artist Yuki Nyhan demonstrates the production of a kendi, the unadorned form of the Art Institute's Chinese ewer. She prepares the clay, shapes it, and creates a blank canvas that will...
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Video: Porcelain Kendi, Part 1— Recreating Forming
Artwork Resource Packet: Shukongojin
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The Art Institute’s figure of Shukongojin, with his demon-like body, flaring eyes, and mouth stretched in a scream, might have originally terrified an oncoming visitor to the temple he guarded, but...
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Artwork Resource Packet: <em>Shukongojin</em>
Artwork and Artist Information: Branch Road at Motomachi, Totsuka by Hiroshige
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A brief essay focusing on Branch Road at Motomachi, Totsuka. Includes discussion questions and classroom activity suggestions.
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Artwork and Artist Information: <em>Branch Road at Motomachi, Totsuka</em> by Hiroshige
Artwork and Artist Information: Street Scenes in Times of Peace
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Street Scenes in Times of Peace is a long, painted handscroll that shows off the wide range of people and activities typical of a large 14th-century Chinese city. This scroll offers a rare...
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Artwork and Artist Information: <em>Street Scenes in Times of Peace</em>
Artwork Resource Packet: Thangka with Bhaishajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha
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This colorful thangka, or scroll painting, represents the Buddha as the master of medicine and teacher of healers. As the patron deity of Tibetan medicine, he is a healer of both the body...
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Artwork Resource Packet: <em>Thangka with Bhaishajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha</em>
Artwork and Artist Information: The Actor Ichikawa Danjûroô V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu by Katsukawa Shunkô
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Katsukawa Shunko's print captures the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjûro in his role as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu in a play called "Returning Home in Splendor." In works such as this one the worlds of...
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Artwork and Artist Information: <em>The Actor Ichikawa Danjûroô V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu</em> by Katsukawa Shunkô
Teacher Manual: Faces, Places, & Inner Spaces
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Based on an interactive and educational exhibition on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from 2003–2007; this manual explores the museum's diverse collection through eleven works that relate to the...
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Teacher Manual: Faces, Places, &amp; Inner Spaces
Artwork and Artist Information: Dancing Ganesha
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This sculpture of Ganesha, Hinduism's Lord of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles, posed mid-dance, is sure to amuse with his oversized elephant head and rotund belly. Includes classroom applications.
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Artwork and Artist Information: <em>Dancing Ganesha</em>
Artwork Resource Packet: Dancing Ganesha
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This sculpture of Ganesha, Hinduism's Lord of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles, posed mid-dance, is sure to amuse with his oversized elephant head and rotund belly. This teaching packet includes...
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Artwork Resource Packet: <em>Dancing Ganesha</em>
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