Japanese Art
Oceanic Art
Pre-Columbian Art
Chinese Art
African Art
100
Japanese pottery with cord-impressed designs
What is Jomon
100
Term referring to art works works produced in Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
What is Oceanic Art
100
Pre-Columbian culture whose greatest achievements feature their elaborate calendar, writing, palaces and temple pyramids with vaulted rooms made of limestone, polychrome pottery, stone stele, and stylized wall paintings and bas reliefs.
What is the Maya
100
Ritual bronze creation was associated with which Chinese imperial dynasty
What is the Shang Dynasty
100
The religious belief that every existing thing has a vital force or energy and by understanding and correctly approaching these forces man can use them
What is animism
200
The traditional name for Nara period hanging scrolls
What is kakemono
200
The culture that designed brightly colored wood carvings or masks to serve a ritual purposes and inspired artists such as Paul Gaugin and Max Ernst
What is the Melanesian culture
200
This cultures sculpture frequently used a motif combining human and jaguar features
What is the Olmec
200
During the first century and beyond, Chinese art became more graceful and precise due to the influence of this religion
What is Buddhism
200
The disc-headed fertility dolls created by the Ashanti people are known as
What is akua'ba
300
The period in which ink painting was first accepted as a means of teaching Zen doctrine
What is the Muromachi period
300
The Asmat of Irian Jaya are famous for this treatment of the human form
What is the "praying mantis"
300
Mayan city that was the center of artistic expression which was deliberately destroyed by invaders around 700 and thereafter ceased to be a factor in Maya civilization.
What is Teotihuacan
300
Traditionally regarded by the Chinese as the highest art form is a mastery in this form of character drawing
What is calligraphy
300
African people who created free-standing ancestor figures in which the cylindrical shape of the torso is stressed
What is the Dogon
400
Means "pictures of the fleeting floating world"
What is Ukiyo-e
400
The traditional name for soul ships, which feature elaborate pierced carved prows and their war shields with apotropaic designs
What are uramon
400
Meso-American culture whose art stressed the importance of human sacrifice in the cult of the war god, Huitzilopochtli. Representations of skulls, hearts, hands, and sacrificial scenes were common
What is the Aztecs
400
This Chinese monument remains the only man made structure that can be seen from space
What is the Great Wall of China
400
People especially noted for mortuary heads and figures, representing ancestors, which are given a dark finish and carved in a powerfully geometric style
What is the Fang
500
Painting of the Yamato-e tradition entitled "Tale of Genji" dates to this period of Japanese art
What is The Fujiwara Period
500
Highly decorative printed bark-cloth, thickly figured with geometric patterns is typical of this region
What is Fiji
500
The largest pyramid in South America, which is named after the civilization that created it is called
What is the Mochica Pyramid
500
The only distinctly Buddhist style of building, which in turn was inspired by Indian stupas
What is a pagoda
500
The people who inhabit southwestern Nigeria and are considered to be one of the most artistically prolific ethnic groups in West Africa
What is the Yoruba
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