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    Princeton University Art Museum Interactives

    The Art of Hon’ami Kōetsu

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    Princeton University Art Museum Interactives

    Client

    Princeton University Art Museum

    Date

    May 2005

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    • Enhanced artifacts
    • 3-D reconstructions & visualizations

    Visitors can transcribe a seventeenth-century Japanese scroll, then create their own poems which are painted into it and ready to print from this Web site.

    A special tool lets visitors transcribe the calligraphy of Hon’ami Kōetsu on a hand scroll from the collection. Visitors learn about the symbolism of the woodblock-printed mica designs and read the verses, and then they can create their own poems by selecting unique combinations of phrases from the Shinkokin wakashu anthology. The poems they compose are converted to calligraphy, embedded back into the scroll, and can then be printed out.

    Press & Awards

    American Association of Museums Muse Awards, Honorable Mention, Art, 2006

    These interactive features let visitors explore the symbolism and process of the works of art around them. We particularly enjoyed the ones that walked us through the process of making ceramic and bronze vessels. To make a ceramic vessel we threw the clay, painted and glazed, and then finally fired it. After breaking several we learned the basics of how to work with clay.

    Credits

    Producer
    Jeremy Clark
    Designer
    JD Hooge
    Developers
    Matt Arnold, Thomas Wester, David Knape
    3-D Visualization
    Matt Arnold
    Motion Designer & Illustrator
    Martin Linde
    Quality Assurance
    Marti Johnson
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    Project Group

    • Project Overview
    • Creating a Bronze Vessel
    • Exploring an American Portrait
    • Making a Cizhou Vessel
    • The Art of Hon’ami Kōetsu