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Chinese Architecture
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100
The only man made structure to be seen from space.
What is the Great Wall of China?
100
This famous artist from Holland was influenced by Japanese artists.
Who is Van Goh?
100
This is used in communication with the spirit world.
What are masks?
100
These people are best known for their large masks made of bark cloth.
Who are the Baining people?
100
So many temples were built with such lavish sculptural decoration, that the style was called this.
What is sculptural architecture?
200
The main floor plan was built around this area.
What is the central axis?
200
Wood block prints that normally depicted scenes of everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
200
This was the former symbol of Ashanti royalty.
What is the gold encrusted stool?
200
These people create functional, streamlined, and highly finished works of art.
Who are Micronesians?
200
This structure is made completley of imported white marble.
What is the Jain Temples at Mt. Abu?
300
This dynasty fully developed the Chinese roof.
What is the Han Dynasty?
300
Leader of a naturalist school whom was influenced by western art.
Who is Okyo Maruyama?
300
This is regarded as vital energy and not solely as the living state.
What is "Being"?
300
In New Ireland, these wood sculptures represent tribal cheifs.
What are Uli figures?
300
The structure often topped an Indian shrine.
What is the shikhara?
400
The only form of structural support for the ceiling, the walls simply provide a screen to close in that space.
What are the columns?
400
Miniature sculptures in the form of buttons which came into great demand during the Edo Period.
What is netsuke?
400
Western artists were most influenced by this form of African art, which mostly consisted of wood carvings used during religious ceremonies.
What is abstract art?
400
These people are known for their "praying mantis"-like form of the human body.
What is The Asmat of Irian Jaya?
400
This hall in an Indian temple came after the entrance portico and led into the cella.
What is the mandapa?
500
The ceiling rests directly on these, which are then supported by other brackets which rest on the columns.
What are four part brackets?
500
This school of painting started during the Edo Period.
What is Rimpa?
500
These are made from a single block of a tree, which causes foreshortening of the limbs and elongation of the body.
What are statuettes?
500
This culture largley impacted European artists, such as Paul Gauguin and Max Ernst.
What is Melanesian art?
500
This tower rose as a series of terraces, each one symbolizing a different divinity.
What is the Dravida tower?