Oceanic Art
African Art
Japanese Art
Pre-Columbian Art
Chinese Art
100
Brilliantly colored wood carvings and ritual masks are an example of this culture's art.
What is Melanesian art?
100
For this reason the Dogon culture pierced their masks with iron hooks.
What is to counteract the life force in the wood?
100
This religion highly influenced architecture and art in Japan.
What is Buddhism?
100
This culture occupied the general area of Yucatan and adjacent parts of Central America from very early times.
What is the Maya?
100
In this dynasty some of China's most extraordinary art was created - the ritual bronzes.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
200
This culture is famous for the “praying mantis” -like treatment of the human form.
What is the Asmat of Irian Jaya?
200
The Fang are famous for employing what powerful style?
What is geometrical style?
200
She wrote The Tale of Gengi during the Fujiwara Period?
Who Lady Murasaki?
200
These people frequently used a motif combining human and jaguar features.
What is the Olmec people?
200
In this dynasty the art of figure painting reached a peak of excellence.
What is the T'ang dynasty?
300
Banana and hibiscus provide what in the Micronesian culture?
What is fibers?
300
This culture is famous for its disc-headed fertility dolls.
What is the Ashanti?
300
This new type of art emerged in the form of wood-block prints that typically depicted scenes from everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
300
The Aztec's "Huitzilopochtli" is important for this ritual.
What is human sacrifice?
300
This is traditionally regarded by the Chinese as the highest art form.
What is calligraphy?
400
This island is famous for its monumental hand-carved statues.
What is Easter Island?
400
This inspired all tribal artists.
What is animist religions and belief in a vital energy?
400
An enormous Buddha (approximately seven stories tall) is housed in this ancient Japanese city.
What is Nara?
400
Cuzco and Machu Picchu are cities from this ancient civilization.
What is the Incas?
400
This is the only distinctly Buddhist type of building and functions as the Buddhist shrine
What is a pagoda?
500
These people mutilated and destroyed many of the works in Oceanic countries.
Who are the Western missionaries?
500
Stauettes are almost always made from this.
What is a single tree block?
500
This work by Koetsu and Sotatsu exemplifies the happy union of literature, calligraphy, and painting.
What is The Deer Scroll?
500
This culture's ceramic portrait vessels in the form of human heads are the high point of realism in pre-Columbian art.
What is the Mochica?
500
This is one of the world's greatest architectural wonders and the only man-made object seen from space.
What is the Great Wall of China?
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