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100
The earliest example of Indian art and civic planning emerged during the third millennium BCE from which river valley?
What is the Indus River Valley
100
This type of art was popular during the Shang dynasty
What is ritual bronzes
100
This is the name for the earliest form of Japanese cord-impressed designs used in pottery.
What is Jomon
100
Masks and statues are used by tribes in communication with this.
What is the spirit world
100
This group is famous for the “praying mantis” –like treatment of the human form.
What is the Asmat
200
The most famous examples of Buddhist paintings can be found in which rock cut caves?
What is the Ajanta caves
200
This structure is the only man- made structure visible from space.
What is The Great Wall
200
This period only produced simple clay figures of animals, people, houses, and boats which were placed around tomb mounds.
What is the Kofun period
200
Which tribe is best-known for their disc-headed fertility dolls called aku’ba?
What is the Ashanti
200
Particular aspects of this type of art had a enormous impact on European artists during the period of 1915-1940.
What is Melanesian art
300
The period known as the “Golden Age of Indian Art” in which Buddhist art flourished.
What is the Gupta period
300
These caves contain Buddhist wall paintings and scrolls dating mainly from the late 5th to the 8th centuries.
What is The Caves of a Thousand Buddhas
300
This period of art ushered in a renaissance of Chinese- style ink painting.
What is The Muromachi period
300
This tribe is noted for mortuary heads and figures representing primeval ancestors.
What is the Fang
300
Here you can find figures and masks made for the dead, and Uli figures that represent tribal chiefs.
What is New Ireland
400
Which emperor from the Maura dynasty commissioned the famous edict pillars?
What is Emperor Asoka
400
During the Sung dynasty, this technique was developed and used in landscape paintings.
What is ink monochrome
400
Okyo Maruyama was the leader of the naturalist school and created pictures with what perspective?
What is Western perspective
400
This group of people is the largest and one of the most artistically prolific ethnic groups in West Africa.
What is the Yoruba
400
This term is for large horizontal openwork carvings of soft wood, consist of friezes, independent sculptures and masks.
What is Malanggan
500
This form of painting is related to both Mughal painting and earlier Indian styles and illustrates a variety of Hindu subjects.
What is Rajput miniature painting
500
This type of building is the only distinctly Buddhist type of building which is used as a Buddhist shrine.
What is the pagoda
500
Which painter created “The Great Wave at Kanagawa” as one of the Ukiyo-e paintings?
What is Hokusai
500
This term is given to the masks held by women in Baluba sculpture.
What is Kifwebe
500
In this form of art, objects that are produced are streamlined, highly finished, executed with astonishing precision and coldly functional.
What is Micronesian art