The term "African Art" refers only to sub-Saharan African art and particularly to sculpture and carving (mostly in wood) from the vast area surrounding these basins.
What is the Niger and Congo basins?
200
This is the earliest example of a stupa from the Sunga Dynasty.
What is the Great Stupa?
200
This caused artwork to be more of a religious nature.
What is the introduction of Buddhism?
200
This period in Japanese art lasted from 710 to 784.
What is the Nara Period.
200
Indigenous Americans in the south west lived by this.
What is agriculture?
200
These groups are excluded from African art.
What is Ancient Egyptian art and the brushman paintings from southern Africa?
300
This scuplture was produced in the Chola dynasty and conveyed extensive attention to ornamental details.
What is Shiva as King of Dance?
300
Under Mongol rule these aspects were cultivated into Sung art.
What is the human figure, landscape painting, and surface of the paintings, especially the style and variety of brushstrokes?
300
This period in Japanese Art lasted from 898 to 1185.
What is the Fujiwara Period
300
These indigenous American groups developed elaborate woodcarving techniques used to fabricate tools, houses, huge dugout canoes, totem poles, and other heraldic and ritual posts.
What is the Tlingit, Tsimshian and Haida groups?
300
In African art this is regarded as vital energy and not solely as the living state.
What is the "being" in their Animist religion.
400
This is where the most famous surviving Buddhist paintings are located.
What are the caves at Ajanta?
400
This painting was produced during the eleventh century and was painted by Fan K'uan.
What is Travelers Amid Streams and Mountains?
400
This period in Japanese art lasted between the late 12 century and the 14th century.
What is the Kamakura Period?
400
The material culture of this group included decorated pottery and baskets, quillwork and beadwork, birchbark utensils, plaited sashes, and carved wood ritual masks.
What is the Eastern Woodlands groups?
400
These were used as a sort of communication to the spirit world.
What are masks and statues?
500
This is when the Gandhara Bodhisattva was sculpted.
What is the second century CE?
500
This was regarded as the highest art form by the Chinese.
What is calligraphy?
500
During the Momoyama period, interiors were decorated with these kind of colors.
What is strong and thick colors?
500
The mainstay of life for the indigenous Americans of the Great Plains was this animal.
What is the buffalo?
500
This part is often much larger than the body in African art.