Visit the Pavilion of Japanese Art at LACMA

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Japanese Art

in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA ) and look at Japanese artworks , especially from the Jomon to Heian period

There were no event focusing on Japanese Art on LACMA , so I opted to join a Sunday tour of the Japanese art collection instead . Knowing at once that it would only last for 50 minutes , I wondered at first how the guide would condense the lecture of thousands of years of Japanese history and Japanese art , especially that it entails a lot of explaining

and translating to do . But the explanations as we went along the way were brief and concise and focused on the artworks , but were enough for us to take note of

What I intended to focus on were paintings from the Jomon to Heian period of Japanese Art , but instead I took note of different forms of Japanese artworks which I found interesting . There were several pieces that caught my attention , but those that I focused on were a ceramic vessel from the middle Jomon period , Jizo Bosatsu , which is carved wood sculpture from the late Heian period , and Seated Warrior , a sculpture from the Kofun period

Japanese art on the Jomon period are mostly earthenware vessels , mostly deep pots made of clay . Potteries made from the Jomon period are characterized by rope markings , incised lines and applied coils of clay (Kleiner 91 . These vessels , however psychedelically figured , have a variety of uses . They serve different purposes , from storage...