User:RexRowan/Night in paintings (Eastern art) list

These are the guidelines for the article: Night_in_paintings_%28Eastern_art%29

Lead
The beginning, 2D, spiritual, then openned up to new ideas and extended to greater mix of styles.

Symbolism
Worth mentioning what each object is a symbol for in different cultures.

History
By country

By Religion

Items remaining

 * The Tale of Genji -- World Digital Library - from the general link you provided: search found 9 items related to Tale of Genji - good background info, nothing about night - come back to this if background info is needed
 * Japanese Palace Museum - home of Banquet by Lantern Light, possibly Avici Hell, Visiting Dai Kui on a Snowy Night, Traveling in Spring Returning at Night... Or, you may find some night scenes are well described in other paintings that as an example how night is depicted in paintings for that century.

Carole's hold spot

 * search


 * Things I found while searching for Western art
 * Korea
 * Tibet
 * Moon / myth in art: rerun q for art OR scroll OR mural OR painting
 * Indian


 * Developing thoughts:
 * Main cultural drivers within the east appear to be China, Japan and India - although Mughal / other are also influenced by others (Le May, I believe)

Japan - Moon - Black moon
All three images of Black moons are in the article now - all under folklore and literature sections


 * Need a source (book, web page) that talks about the significance of a black moon in paintings.
 * Possible search terms: "Black moon" painting OR paintings


 * How about if we cover this this in the "moon discussion" - and refer (with inarticle links) to the sections where the images may be found?

Japan - new item

 * My Japanese friend sent this to me:

Symbolism

 * Are there some examples of paintings that he's depicted in - so we have a place to explore this?
 * "A famous mythology character Yue-Laou, the "old man of the moonlight", appears before two lovers under the moonlight and ties a red thread to forever match them." -- I spent about 45 minutes on this and wasn't having luck.
 * "There are ghosts and spirits that appear in the night to deliver messages to people." -- nothing on this piece in particular

Still on the look out. -- RexRowan  Talk  10:29, 30 August 2012 (UTC)