AoA test 2
The bluegreen landscape is from or in refernce to which dynasty?
Tang Dynasty
Define: Zun
A wine jug
Define: Ding
Food cauldron
Define: Bi
Jade disc
Define: Yangshao
Neolithic Chinese culture, 5000-3000 bce.
Define: Longshan
Neolithic Chinese culture, 3000-1900 bce.
Define: Liangzhu
Neolithic Chinese culture, 3300-2300 bce.
Define: Bronze
metal alloy of tin and copper
Define: Mawangdui
A complex of tombs from the western Han dynasty
Define: Qin Shi Huang
Emperor who founded the Qin dynasty and united China
Define: Seal
A red stamp present on many pieces of Chinese artworks to show approval of the owners and/or viewers
Define: Filial Piety
Ancestoral Worship
Define: Literati
Class of scholars and officials who practiced art at an amiture level
Define: Burial Substitutes
Things buried with people so that they could have them in the afterlife
Define: Arhat/Luohan
An enlighted person (not buddha)
Define: Mandorla
Almond-shaped halo
Define: Grottoes
Man-made caves where monks could reside and for people to pray
Define: Registers
A horizontal level in a work that consists of several levels arranged one above the other, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines
Define: Stele
A stone tablet, collum, or pillar with carvings and/or engravings
Define: Calligraphy
A form of artistic writing
Define: Feng-Shui
A philosophical idea about the lyout and energy of a space
Define: Chiang'an
The former capital of China
Define: Empress Wu Zetian
The only woman emperor who made Buddhism the state religion
Define: Colophon
An inscription mounted with a painting showing ownership and a commentary on the piece
Define: Provenance
History of ownership
Define: Pagoda
A building outside, usually with several roofs, usually ment to hold various religious paraphernalia-associated with Buddhism
Define: Repousse
A technique of hammer metal (usually of alread made reliefs) to detail and refine the work
Define: Earthenware
Clay fired at a relatively low tempurature, which is easier to make but more fragile than other pottery fired at high temps
Define: Glaze
A finish for ceramics
Define: Porcelain
White clay fired at very high tempuratures
Define: Stoneware
Clay that can be a variety of colors fired at a higher temp than Earthenware (making it more durrable) but still at lower temps than Porcelain
Define: Polychrome enamles
A finish for ceramics that can be a veriety of colors
*Infantry- Terrocotta Warriors*
Tomb of Emporer Qin Shi Huang
Earthenware
Funerary Banner*
Western Han dynast 180 bce
Mawangdui (Tomb 1)
ADMONITIONS OF THE COURT INSTRUCTRESS TO THE
PALACE LADIES
Probably Coppied after court painter Gu Kaizhi
Six dynasties 500-600 ce.
Mahasattva Jataka*
Mogao Grottoes (Cave 428) Dunhuang
The Thirteen Emperors*
Attributed to Yan Liben
Tang dynasty
Bodhisattva Guide of Souls*
Depicting the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Guanyin (depicted as male) guiding a follower to the Western Pure Land
From to Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang
*Night Revels of Han Xizai*
Credited to Gu Hingzhong (but he was most likely not the real artist)
Southern Song dynasty (not Tang)
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams*
Fan Kuan
Northern Song 1000 ce.
Early Spring
Guo Xi
1072 ce.
Peace Reigns Along The River
By Zhang Zeduan
Northern Song dynasty
the one with the boat about to crash, unusual for depicting everyday life
*A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains*
Wang Ximeng
Form the Northern Song dynasty (1113 ce.), but is the blue-green refrencing the Tang dynasty
Wang XiZhi Watching Geese*
By Qian Xuan
Yuan dynasty (mongol rule)
Sheep and Goat*
By Zhao Mengfu
Yuan dynasty 1300-1305 ce.
Chicken Cup
Ming dynasty 1465-1487 ce.
Cobalt blue outlines
*Portraits of Guanyin*
By Miss Qui
Ming dynasty 1580 ce.
Guanyin- boddhisattva of compasion (depicted as female)
*Inauguration Portraits of QianLong and His Empress*
Long Shining aka Guiseppe Castiglione (the Italian guy)
Qing dynasty 1736 ce.
*Self-Portrait*
Ren Xiong
Qing dynasty
Seated Buddha at Seokguram Cave
Unified Silla Period 751 ce.
Seated Willow-Branch Guanse'em Bosal (Bodhisattva of Compasion)*
Goryeo dynasty
Wine Pot with Bowl
Goryeo dynasty 1150-1200 ce.
Inlaid technique
Bottle with Abstract Decoration
Joseon dynasty
Buncheon ware
Panoramic View of The Diamond Mountains
By Jeong Seon
Joseon dynasty 1734 ce.