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This very involvement of the viewer in establishing a context for the works points to another interpretation of the exhibit??s title. What if it signified not “Afro-(Ab)Straction” but “(Di)Straction?...
...exhibit, on display until Sept. 7, features 72 works of East Asian Buddhist art with strikingly uniform subject matter. “We aimed to present a comprehensive overview of Buddhist art from China, Korea and Japan over a period of one thousand years,” said the exhibit??s curator, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Robert D. Mowry...
...exhibit??s informal centerpiece consists of four monumental hanging scroll paintings that depict “The Kings of Hell.” In the Buddhist tradition, the Kings of Hell controlled the fate of the dead, judging good and bad deeds and meting out horrific punishments. The scroll paintings – from China, Korea, and Japan – present these scenes of the underworld in similar fashions, evidence of a strict adherence to iconographic convention throughout East Asia. “I hope the viewer realizes that Buddhist subject matter remains the same in Asian...
...sacred Buddhist sutras constitute a large portion of the exhibit??s works. Many of the sutra chapters include illustrations that accompany the calligraphic text. Beautifully detailed woodblock prints, both inked and touched up with gold pigment, make up the magnificent pages of the sutras. The copying of such texts was vital to the transmission of Buddhist beliefs and practices. Furthermore, it was considered a meritorious act that brought good fortune to both the patron who commissioned the work and the artist himself...
...Later Tradition” effectively demonstrates that Buddhist iconographic conventions remained essentially the same from one country to the next over several centuries. Said Mowry, “I wanted to make sure the objects worked well together both intellectually and visually.” And, indeed, the exhibit??s visual variety and geographical diversity provides both aesthetic pleasure and insight into the history of Buddhism...