They made temple pyramids, bas reliefs, and polychrome pottery.
What are the main artworks of the Maya?
100
Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
What are the three main island groups of Oceanic Art?
100
Landscapes, monumental detail, and muted colors
What are the characteristics of Chinese painting?
100
Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon
What painting by Picasso was influenced by African art?
200
Stylized, complex, sensual, decorative
What are the main features of Indian Art?
200
Using a combination of human and jaguar features.
What is the Olmec style of sculpture?
200
Precise, functional, respect for scarce materials
What are charecteristics of Micronesian art?
200
Blue and white.
What colors were most often used in ceramics?
200
Emphasizing important body parts, stylized, abstract, symmetric, ceremonial
What are the main general characteristics of African art?
300
Mound like structure containing Buddhist relics
What is a stupa?
300
Teotihuacan, the Toltec, and the Aztec
What were the three cultures in central Mexico?
300
They made brilliantly colored wood carvings and masks for ritual purposes, bark cloth paintings, and carved drums.
What did the Melanesians mainly create?
300
The highest Chinese art form
What is calligraphy?
300
Creating disc-headed fertility dolls.
What are the Ashanti people well-known for?
400
Reddish limestone.
What is the usual medium for sculptures.
400
The Mochica Pyramid of the sun in Peru?
What was the largest pyramid in all of the Americas?
400
They destroyed their masks after the ritual.
What did the Baining people of the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain do with ritual masks?
400
Graceful, symmetric, an overhanging roof, upturned eaves, roof supported by columns
What is the main characteristics of Chinese architecture?
400
Free standing ancestor figures with a cylindrical shape of the torso stressed
What are characteristics of Dogon sculpture?
500
A temple in Southern India that rose in a series of terraces symbolyzing a different divinity.
What is a Dravida tower?
500
The Mayans made deep colonnades in their temples and included bas relief sculptures and fifteen foot caryatids.
How did the Toltec influence Mayan Art?
500
Human sculptures, or gargantuan, made of Tufa and weighed 20 tons.
What is a well-known feature of the art of Easter Island?
500
They were ritual bronzes. They were made of bronze and were often decorated with embelishments and inlays. Sometimes they were naturalistic and sometimes they were abstract.
What are the main artworks of the Shang, Chou, and Han dynasties? Describe them.
500
Because Africans practiced Animist religions and they wanted to connect with the energy of nature.
Why does African Art include many ceremonial masks and statues?