A process in which lacquer is applied to a solid core of wood or lacquered cloths placed over some kind of armature.
What is the dry-lacquer process?
100
Art which tended to be naturalistic and commemorative, and made in durable materials such as stone, terracotta, bronze, and hardwood.
What is the courtly art?
100
Works produced by the island peoples of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
What is Oceanic art?
200
Golden age in which Buddhist art flourished.
What is the Gupta Period?
200
Site at which the oldest finds (dating to 6000-5000 BCE) were excavated.
What is B'ei-li-kang?
200
Miniature sculptures in the form of ornamental buttons.
What are netsuke?
200
Often abstract art consisting mainly of wood-carvings used during relgious cermonies such as masks and ancetor figures.
What is conceptual art?
200
"Soul ships."
What are "uramon"?
300
Tales of the Buddha's previous lives.
What is the jatakas?
300
Dynasty in which sculpture reached its pinnacle and ceased to change in style.
What is the Ming dynasty?
300
The the first major native painter.
Who is Kanaoka (late 9C)?
300
These disc-headed fertility dolls are the best-known examples of Ashanti wood carving.
What are the "akua'ba"?
300
They are famous for their “praying mantis” -like treatment of the human form.
Who are the Asmat of Irian Jaya?
400
The Indus civilization produced many statuettes made of these materials.
What is steatite and limestone?
400
The dynasty in which art of figure painting reached a peak of excellence.
What is the T'ang dynasty (618-906)?
400
This word, when translated means "pictures of the fleeting floating world."
What is Ukiyo-e?
400
Carvers and sculptors that are considered some of the finest in Africa.
Who are the Fang?
400
These islanders developed the tattoo into a fine art with which they covered the entire body.
Who are the Marquesas islanders?
500
The earliest stupas date from these dynasties.
What is the Sunga dynasty (2-1C BCE) and early Andhra dynasty (1C BCE)?
500
The dynasty in which landscape painting reached its greatest expression.
What is the Sung dynasty (960-1279)?
500
Harunobu, Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige.
Who are the major Ukiyo-e painters?
500
Noted for wood carving, especially the masks of secret societies and religious cult objects, these people inhabit southwestern Nigeria and are the largest and one of the most artistically prolific ethnic groups in West Africa.
Who are the Yoruba?
500
Stone amulets in the forms of embryonic birds and humans with heads bent to one side.