Indian Art
Japanese Art
African Art
Pre-Columbian Art
100
These buildings are relic mounds and date from the Sunga dynasty (2-1C BCE) and early Andhra dynasty (1C BCE). They show sculptures of Buddha's life, and contain full graceful forms, with female figures in them.
What is the Great Stupa at Sanchi?
100
What art era is marked by the crystallization of the Yamato-e tradition of painting (based on national rather than on Chinese taste).
What is the Fujiwara period?
100
These mini carvings are best known as Ashanti sculpture.
What is an "akua'ba"?
100
Which civilization successfully made a calendar which many people in the world use today?
What is the Mayans?
200
This type of painting is characterized by lyrical landscapes, sinuous grace in the depiction of the human form, and an interest in perspective. The paintings chronicle Shri Krishna's life usually.
What are Rajput paintings?
200
Which art era began to loose its Buddhist inspiration and rely more on Chinese-style ink painting?
What is the Muromachi period?
200
This culture is noted for their wood carving, especially the masks of secret societies and religious cult objects.
What is the Yoruba tribe?
200
This culture is known for the excellence of their stone carving ranging from small, finely detailed jade objects to colossal, often realistic basalt heads. Their artwork incorporates human with jaguars.
What are the Olmecs?
300
Many south Indian temples depict this God and his famous dance, the Nataraj.
What is Shiva?
300
What type of artwork was depicted in the form of wood-block prints that typically depicted scenes from everyday life?
What is an Ukiyo-e?
300
This culture represent show free-standing ancestor figures in which the cylindrical shape of the torso is stressed ; softwood masks, in bold abstract forms (distortion is usually employed to stress features of spiritual significance); and decorative high-relief ancestor figures in cubistic forms, found particularly on granary doors.
What is the Dogon tribe?
300
Which civilization made caryatids at the Tula, dating back to ca. 900-1180 C.E.?
What is the Toltecs?
400
This civilization was the earliest civilization in India to ever produce artwork or any type of civic planning.
What is the Indus Valley civilization?
400
What artwork exemplifies the happy union of literature, calligraphy, and painting during the Edo period?
What is the Deer Scroll?
400
Which culture is noted for their use of mortuary heads and figures, possibly representing primeval ancestors, and given a dark finish which is carved in powerfully geometric styles?
What is the Fang Tribe?
400
Which civilizations made huge agricultural terraces, which are still in use, and erected cities, such as Machu Picchu and Cuzco?
What are the Incas?
500
What was the famous sculpture from the Chola dynasty depicting a very famous god, known as the the Destroyer?
What is "Shiva as King of Dance" sculpture?
500
Which palace is noted for its sumptuousness in terms of carved wood, black lacquer, gold decorations, and screen paintings, and was built in the Edo period?
What is the Nijo Palace?
500
What is the name if the tribe with the collective term for the peoples of the Congo-Kinshasa region of Africa?
What is the Baluba peoples?
500
This civilization were masters of the art of painted pottery. They made battle scenes, rituals, animals, and mythological beings ; their ceramic portrait vessels in the form of human heads are the high point of realism in pre-Columbian art.
What is the Nazca civilization?
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