Art term paper

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“Education and spreading of internet, people, capital, and raw materials, is slowly depriving us of our former impressive advantages. The world experiences the first generation of universal teenagers (also called global teens by others) who know the same music, art, dance, language, vacation spots, literature, and I-want-my-MTV! They sweep and flow around the world - just like information, capital, labor, and raw materials. It is becoming more and more possible to manufacture market and move anything anywhere anytime. But every combination of these capabilities begins with an idea. And these ideas can now come from anyone anywhere anytime and go everywhere anytime. In the future economic disadvantages, mistakes, misses, will come about because you were asleep in the wrong time zone! (How about an idea alarm clock that goes off the moment something that matches your interests and abilities hits the world network?”
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“The origin of Japanese folk toys probably goes back to magical and superstitious practices, a supposition borne out by the fact that in the earliest art of Japan dolls are found which were thought to house ancestral spirits or deities and, therefore, were believed to have magical powers. Many traditional dolls, such as the hina dolls, are frequently associated with an annual event or local festival; and even today there are provincial places which produce dolls of straw, bamboo, or clay which are regarded as dwelling places for the deity of the soil or the spirit of the local shrine or festival. Other dolls were thought to afford a means of purification. An old document from the Heian period, for example, cites that a large straw doll was set out whenever the plague prevailed”
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“Black ink is applied delicately on the buff and textured paper. The paper reminds me of brown paper bags for lunch, but lighter. It also appeared to have the same smooth yet fuzzy texture to it. The brush strokes consist of mostly horizontal motions. The strokes are rather equal with each other. All the lines are haphazard looking but also contained and precise. I have almost a coloring book style to it, but the lines aren’t quite cookie cutter all the way around. There’s no real shading, mostly bolder lines on one side to suggest shadows and a light source. There are a few lighter bamboo thickets in the background on the opposite side of the river. Above that there are some light gray washed mountains giving a nice skyline. The line weights also suggest the roughness of the rocks and the mountains, as well as the texture of the bark on the trees.”
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