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Art that refers to works of art and architecture produced on the Indian subcontinent, which is now divided among India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
What is Indian Art?
100
The representation of the Buddha and of the bodhisattvas and attendant figures became the great theme of sculpture
What is Buddism?
100
Referring only to sub-Saharan African art and particularly to sculpture and carving from the vast area surrounding the Niger and Congo basins
What is African Art
100
The earliest art of Japan
What is the monochrome pottery with cord-impressed designs; Jomon
100
This art refers to the diverse traditional arts of the historic North Americans
What is Indigenous North American art
200
the earliest Indian art and civic planning which emerged during the second half of the third millennium BCE
What is the valley of Indus River?
200
The clearest extant record of stylistic development in the Shang, Chou and Early Han dynasties
What is ritual bronze?
200
Former symbol of Ashanti royalty, was the most renowned example of Ashanti metal work.
What is the gold encrusted spoon?
200
The period that clay figures and statues made in the dry-lacquer process that represented Buddist and dieties
What is the Nara period
200
They developed basketry as a highly refined art
What is California, Great Basin, and Plateau groups
300
the great Maurya dynasty is the most famous for these remains erected throughout northern India by the Emperor Asoka
What is edict pillars?
300
Paintings that have a clear historical development can be traced
What is 5th century Chinese paintings?
300
They are noted for their carvings, of which the wooden ancestor figures by the sculptors of the central Hemba tribe are outstanding.
What is The Baluba
300
The people who started the school of painting in the Edo period
Who is Koetsu Hon'ami and Sotatsu Tawaraya
300
The material culture of the Eastern Woodlands groups
What is decorated pottery and baskets, quillwork and beadwork, birchbark utensils, plaited sashes, and carved wood ritual masks
400
These relic mounds are surrounded by railings and gateways covered with carved ornaments
What is Sunga dynasty and Andhra dynasty?
400
Traditionally regarded by the Chinese as the highest art form
What is calligraphy?
400
They are noted for wood carving, especially the masks of secret societies and religious cult objects
What is the Yoruban culture?
400
There arose a new type of art in the form of wood-block prints that typically depicted scenes from everyday life
What is Ukiyo-e
400
In that region, pottery making, particularly of jars and bowls, is still today a highly developed art with a rich tradition extending back to pre-Columbian times
What is the Southwest region
500
The earliest Indian manuscript paintings are Buddhist, of the Pala dynasty; they have a delicate color
What is Jain manuscript illuminations
500
Where the oldest finds of Chinese Neolithic culture were excavated
What is B'ei-li-kang near Luo-yang?
500
Their outstanding sculpture is represented by the following: free-standing ancestor figures in which the cylindrical shape of the torso is stressed; softwood masks, in bold abstract forms; and decorative high-relief ancestor figures in cubistic forms, found particularly on granary doors.
What is Dogon culture?
500
Complex building schemes, known as shinden-zukuri, were devised for the court nobles in this period.
What is the Heian period
500
These groups developed elaborate woodcarving techniques used to fabricate tools, houses, huge dugout canoes, totem poles, and other heraldic and ritual posts, as well as outstanding masks, bowls, and ladles
Who are the Tlingit, Tsimshian and Haida