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Important Cultural Property Namban Screens
Jessica Staus
General Psychology
Professor Henderson
January 24, 2014
The art piece I liked the most off of the site “Google cultural institute,” is a piece from
Japan, named, Namban Screens. This piece was painted on silk by Kano Sanraku. I loved
the colors he used, and how life like he made it, with the massive waves around the ship,
the ship sailing away, and the people gathered around the dock. As I look more at this
painting to get a better understanding of what’s happening in it, I notice the long, fluffy
dresses the ladies are wearing, telling me the painting is set around the 17th century. What I
dislike about this painting is that he didn’t give a lot of character in the painting. Kano, the
artist, mainly focused on painting the people, making the waves look life like, the ship, and
a little painting around the people to tell us that the painting is set in Japan. As I keep
looking at this painting, my mirror neurons are understanding it more and more and getting
better ideas to know what is going on in the paining, (King, 2013).
We can use the scientific method guessing on what the people in the painting might be
doing by observing the painting carefully and looking at every little detail to what might be
going on in the painting. Next, you can formulate a hypothesis on what you observed in
