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Aztecs and Mayans
Native Americans
The Pacific
Islamic Art
China
100
Writing composed entirely of symbols, almost impossible to decipher due to a loss of language.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
Some issues facing Native American tribes/art.
-Art started losing its cultural value, replicas were being made and mass produced, the art sold was not authentic, it was the “pretty” representations of it. -Europeans sought to civilize them, forced the children into schools. -Native Americans are losing the history of their people, and are stuck between the two worlds (European society and Native culture).
100
sacred power; often manifested in art (similar to hozho)
What is mana?
100
Hindu all inclusive, universal, and eternal spiritual reality that extends to all temporal and divine beings; real and everlasting; all faithful should strive to ascend to it.
What is brahman?
100
What famous art was found in the tomb of Qin Shihhuangdi
What are Terra Cotta soldiers?
200
A type of architectural style that had the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
What is a ziggurat?
200
What group of Native Americans are categorized by wood carvings and blanket making, totem poles, and believe people have ownership over specific spiritual elements.
What are the Tlingits/Southwest Coast Native Americans
200
________ art is some of the oldest in the world. Aboriginals believe spirits known as “Mimis” taught the Aboriginals ________ painting. The style of these painting is X-Ray
What is rock painting?
200
This type of Islamic art involved copying excerpts from the Qua'ran, using excellent handwriting was a sign of worship to Allah, served as beautification of their religion.
What is calligraphy?
200
Chinese artist who preserved some of the first Chinese art, focused on honoring the past by copying their work; he focused on the qi, or the character of spirit of the painting.
Who is Xie He?
300
“place of fear”, city of dead, “hell” equivalent.
What is Xibalba?
300
Plains Indians made this type of shirt which is heavily beaded, believed the have the power to make the Native Americans “bulletproof,” bring back ancestors, provide buffalo, and make foreigners disappear.
What is a Ghost Dance shirt? (Includes major elements of the Plains Indians such as beadwork, buckskins, etc...
300
all-encompassing world; heavily focused on tradition, people had ownership over specific dream sequences.
What is "The Dreaming?"
300
enlightenment which frees from all earthly concerns and desires.
What is nirvana?
300
scholars, amateurs, part of the elite, focused on expression.
What are literati?
400
losers would die, played in honor of the Gods, derived from the story of the two hero twins in Xibalba.
What is the Mesoamerican ball game?
400
Towns that are built within rock.
What are pueblos?
400
a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge from the Māori people of New Zealand
What is the haka?
400
_________ religion does not believe in pictoral representations.
What is an aniconic religion?
400
Chinese artist who engaged in political commentary and used social media to free himself from prison.
Who is Ai Wei Wei?
500
A type of ritual performed to ensure rain, protection, and success for the Aztecs.
What is human sacrifice?
500
What group of Native Americans used sand painting and woven blankets to ensure protection and preservation of the hozho?
What are the Navajos?
500
What is the name/meaning behind the statues on Easter Island?
What is Giant statues called moai, these statues overlook landscape, the art is connected to spirits, the inhabitants also recorded genealogy and traditions faithfully?
500
Horshoe arches, voussoirs (wedge-shaped stones), rib vaulting techniques, and arches with multiple lobes or cusps.
What are characteristics of Islamic architecture?
500
patterns are often seen in ceramics, especially in the Song dynasty.
What are crackle patterns?