Chinese Art
Japanese Art
Indian Art
African Art
Oceanic Art
100
The art works that are associated with the Early Chinese Dynasties.
What are the ritual bronzes?
100
The period (1615-1867) in which the Japanese school of painting was started.
What is the Edo Period?
100
The style of most Hindu Dynasty temples.
What is the Dravida style?
100
The body part of an African statue that is much larger than it should be due to that fact that it is believed that this is where a person's life force is.
What is the head?
100
In comparison to the works of another group of Oceanic peoples, their work is much more streamlined and functional due to a lack of natural resources.
Who are the Micronesian people?
200
The religion that introduced a new form of art to the Chinese.
What is Buddhism?
200
The main building of a Japanese Buddhist temple.
What is a honden?
200
The period in which the "Shiva as the King of Dance" was created.
What is the Gupta Period?
200
A people whose symbol of royalty was a gold encrusted stool.
Who are the Ashanti?
200
The reddish volcanic rock that the inhabitants of Easter Island used to carve sculptures with.
What is tufa?
300
The aspect of Chinese painting that never ceased to be evident.
What is the brushstroke?
300
The process in which lacquer is applied to a solid core of wood or lacquered cloths are placed over some kind of armature. This process was very popular in the Nara period.
What is the dry-lacquer process?
300
A large tower that crowned the shrine of a Hindu temple.
What is a shikhara?
300
A people whose sculptures have cylindrical torsos and have decorative high-relief ancestor figures in cubistic forms.
Who are the Dogon people?
300
The people that create stone amulets called hei tiki in the forms of embryonic birds and humans with heads bent to one side.
Who are the Maori people?
400
The dynasty in which landscape painting reached its greatest expression.
What is the Sung Dynasty?
400
The former nobleman's villa that was converted into a temple around 1050 CE.
What is the Byodo-in?
400
A style of Indian painting that is characterized by lyrical landscapes, sinuous grace in the depiction of the human form, and an interest in perspective.
What is Rajput painting?
400
A people known for their wood carvings, especially those made for secret societies and religious cults.
Who are the Yoruba people?
400
A plant whose fiber is used to make Micronesian textiles.
What is the banana or the hibiscus?
500
The place where the oldest Chinese artifacts were found and date to 6000-5000 BCE.
What is B'ei-li-kang?
500
The period after the earliest period of Japanese Art that was characterized by wheel-thrown pots and dotaku.
What is the Yayoi Period?
500
A material that the Indus civilization used to make statuettes.
What is steatite or limestone?
500
The people considered to be the finest carvers and sculptors in Africa.
Who are the Fang people?
500
The people famous for the "praying mantis" -like treatment of the human form.
Who are the Asmat of Irian Jaya?
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