Japan
Africa
Oceania
China
100
Chinese Art
What influenced Japanese Art?
100
Influenced Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
What is African Art?
100
Wood carvings and ritual masks are brilliantly colored in this art.
What is Melanesian Art?
100
The Great Wall of China
What is a great architecture in China?
200
pictures of the fleeting floating world
What is Ukiyo-e?
200
The head of the statue is often disproportionately large owing to the belief that it is the seat of the life force and is therefore more important than the body. Statuettes are almost always made from a single block from a tree, thus leading to elongation of the body with the arms held close to the sides, and foreshortening of the features.
What is African Sculpture?
200
Art refers to works produced by the island peoples of the South and Northwest Pacific, including Melanesia (New Guinea and the islands to its north and east), Micronesia.
What is Oceanic Art?
200
A two mile long city where only the emperor, his servants, and his family lived. It was forbidden for anyone else to enter it.
What is the Forbidden City?
300
Happy union of literature, calligraphy, and painting
What is the exemplification of the Deer Scroll?
300
People who live mostly in the country of Ghana. Who had the gold encrusted stool.
What is Ashanti?
300
Art that never survived the influx of Western missionaries who mutilated and was destroyed due to the art being considered pornographic or idolatrous.
What is Polynesian Art?
300
Buddhist type of building; it is the Buddhist shrine and has heavy architecture on the bottom but gets small at the top.
What is the Pagoda?
400
Hokusai
What is the name of the painter of the "The Great Wave at Kanagawa"?
400
Their outstanding sculpture is represented by the following: 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 Dogon?
400
the Hawaiian Islands, the Samoas, Tonga, New Zealand, and Easter Island
What are the areas of Polynesia?
400
Chinese architecture is graceful, with an overhanging roof, sometimes in several tiers, with upturned eaves. The roof rests on a series of four-part brackets, which in turn are supported by other clusters of brackets set on columns.
What is the structural elements of Chinese architecture?
500
Koetsu Hon'ami, Sotatsu Tawaraya, Ogata Korin and Ogata Kenzan
What is the name of four major artist in Japan of the 20th century?
500
They are noted for wood carving, especially the masks of secret societies and religious cult objects.
What is Yoruba
500
They create stone amulets known as hei tiki in the forms of embryonic birds and humans with heads bent to one side. They employ spiral motifs in intricate combinations, even in tattooing the human face. After death such tattooed faces are often preserved on their dried skulls as ritual objects.
What is Maori peoples of New Zealand
500
It was a prosperous time of art with ritual bronzes and mastery of metal.
What is Shang dynasty?
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