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China
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Africa
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100
Columns over 50 feet high and decorated by lotus capitals and animal figures were erected throughout northern India by this emperor, in proclamation of his decotion to Buddhism.
Who is Emperor Asoka?
100
The Forbidden city, a 15th century group of imperial buildings, is located in this city.
What is Beijing, China?
100
Impressionist painters were inspired by this style of art, characterized by wood-block prints of everyday life in Japan.
What is Ukiyo-e?
100
"African Art" refers only to this region of Africa.
What is sub-Saharan Africa?
100
These islands combined produce the area of Oceanic art.
What are islands of the South and Northwest Pacific (including New Guinea), Micronesia (Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert islands), and Polynesia (including Easter Island, Hawaii, the Samoas, and New Zealand)?
200
In Indian Gandhara art, the pipal tree, the wheel of life, footprints, and an empty throne are symbolic of this.
What is Buddha's presence?
200
These were a key feature of art during the Shang Dynasty (2nd- 1st centuries BCE).
What are ritual bronzes?
200
He was the first major native painter of Japan.
Who is Kanaoka, in the late 19th century?
200
This part of the body is often disproportionately large in African statues, and is thought to be the seat of the life force.
What is the head of the statue?
200
This Polynesian island is known for its moais, or large stone statues, carved primarily from volcanic ash.
What is Easter Island?
300
The Indus Valley civilizaiton (until circa 1500 BCE) is best known for its statuettes made of these two materials.
What are steatite and limestone?
300
This monumental work, began in the third century BCE, is one of the few examples of Chinese architecture before the Ming Dynasty.
What is the Great Wall of China?
300
Lavish screen paintings were created as a part of this Japanese time period, in which the use of fortresses was important.
What is the Momoyama period, late 16- early 17 centuries?
300
This group, located around Northern Gabon, are noted for mortuary heads and figures with dark finishes and geometric styles.
Who are the Fang?
300
This style of Oceanic art is dominated by streamlined, finished, precisional, and functional designs.
What is Micronesian art?
400
The great embellishment of Hindu temples after the 6th century lent the style this title.
What is "sculptural architecture", though formally known as the dravida style?
400
In addition to animal subjects and landscapes, these two subjects were popular in Chinese painting during the T'ang dynasty (7th- 10th centuries).
What are historical scenes and scenes of court life?
400
This period of Japanese art is characterized by realistic detail and a high demand for art featuring high officials
What is the Kamakura Period, late 12th - 14th centuries?
400
These people of the Congo-Kinshasa region are memorable for their wooden carvings of ancestor figures.
Who are the Baluba?
400
These Polynesian stone amulents are in the forms of embryonic birds and humans with bent heads.
What are hei tiki?
500
Buddhist art flourished during this period of Indian art, often considered a golden age.
What is the Gupta period; 8th through 12th centuries?
500
This skill, important to the Western Renaissance, is lacking in Chinese paintings after the 5th century.
What is rendering of the natural effects of light?
500
This period of Japanese art is characterized by a subtractive treatment of the features of men and women, and rich colors.
What is The Fujiwara Period, 10th-12th centuries?
500
The Yoruba, inhabitants of southwestern Nigeria and one of the largest ethnic groups of West Africa, are noted for this art form.
What are wood carvings, especially in the form of of masks for secret societies or religious cults?
500
Homes of Melanesian bachelors are often decorated with relief carvings of these colors and subject matter.
What are yello, black, red, and white; and mythological or historical significance?
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