These brightly colored, wearable artifacts are the most studied pieces of Melanesian art.
What are ritual masks?
100
These Buddhist mound-like structures are often used as places of worship and began to emerge around 1BC (but still appear today).
What is a stupa?
100
This culture directly influenced early Japanese art more than any other.
What is Chinese art?
100
During the T'ang Dynasty, this religion became prominent in Chinese art and culture and stayed as so until modern day.
What is Buddhism?
200
These monolithic sculptures are the exception to the common "portable" feature of Oceanic art.
What are Moai from Easter Island?
200
Named after a region in modern-day Pakistan, this style of art presented the first images of the Buddha.
What is Gandhara?
200
During the Marumaci period, this medium was commonly used to create asymmetrical Japanese landscapes.
What is ink painting?
200
This form of art is generally considered in Chinese culture to be the highest and most spiritual.
What is calligraphy?
300
This feature separates Micronesian art from Melanesian art.
What is practical/functional?
300
This "King of Dance" was featured in many famous Hindu sculptures during the Chola Dynasty.
Who is Shiva?
300
Constant warfare led to the need for great fortresses, often decorated with impressive interiors, during this period.
What is the Momoyama Period?
300
This Chinese artist created the famous landscape painting "Travellers Among Streams and Mountains".
Who is Fan K'uan?
400
These three groups of islands are collectively considered "Oceania."
What are Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia?
400
These caves house the most famous examples of Indian painting in their Buddhist wall paintings.
What are the Ajanta Caves?
400
This skilled woodblock printer created the famous Ukiyo-e titled "The Great Wave at Kanagawa."
Who is Hokusai?
400
During this era, the Chinese created some of the most studied pieces; the ritual bronzes.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
500
These people are most well-known for their masks of bark cloth and are found in the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britian.
What are the Baining people?
500
Meaning "one who has taken to enlightenment through Buddhism", this term was a common subject in Buddhist Indian art, as well as the most famous sculpture hailing from the Gandhara era.
What is a Bodhisattva?
500
This man was the first of the modern major Chinese painters.
Who is Kanaoka?
500
Since this dynasty, Chinese architecture has remained largely unchanged.