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Chinese Art
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100
A popular subject in Chinese painting.
What is landscape?
100
A period of Japanese painting heavily influenced by Chinese Painting.
What is Muromachi?
100
A popular form of African art which is made by carving wood and used in communication with the spirit world.
What is wooden masks?
100
Oceanic art typically made for this reason.
What is ceremony (or ritual)?
100
Group of Native American peoples who carved wooden statues of Arctic animal life.
What is Eskimo?
200
The colors used most often in Chinese pottery.
What is white and blue?
200
Wood-block prints that depicted scenes of everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
200
Period of art influenced by African art.
What is Cubism?
200
A group of Oceanic Islands which include the Gilbert Islands.
What is Micronesia?
200
Object often used in art and jewelry by the Native American peoples.
What is bead.
300
They represent the clearest extant record of stylistic development in the Shang, Chou and Early Han dynasties.
What is ritual bronzes?
300
A period where the country was governed by the military.
What is Kamakura?
300
Often distorted, abstract, or stylized artform.
What is statue?
300
Oceanic region famouse for brightly colored art.
What is Melanesia?
300
Civilization which produced mysterious lines in Peru.
What is Nazca?
400
Traditionally considered they highest form of art by the Chinese
What is calligraphy?
400
The famous illustrated scroll written in the early eleventh century by Lady Murasaki.
What is "Tale of the Genji?"
400
One of the most artistically prolific ethnic groups in Africa.
What is Yoruba?
400
Oceanic group of peoples famous for their "praying manti" treatment of the human form.
What is Asmat?
400
Pre-Columbian civilazation unsurpassed in ancient America as engineers.
What is Inca?
500
A religion that highly influenced Chinese art.
What is Buddhism?
500
Miniture sculptures in the form of ornamental buttons.
What is netsuke?
500
Disc-headed fertility doll made by the Ashanti peoples.
What is akua'ba?
500
Stone amulets in forms of embryonic birds and humans with heads bent to one side made by the Maori peoples of New Zealand.
What is hei tiki?
500
Pre-Columbian civilization credited with creating the "Long Count Calendar".
What is Olmec?