art

When did the Communists take control of China?

1949

The shogunate of the Muromachi period was ________ .

A military government

________ are agriculturists living in the hilly regions north of the Sepik River.

Abelam

Which of the following was the dominant culture of the American Southwest preceding the Europeans?

Ancestral Puebloan

What does the Maori meetinghouse represent?

Ancestral figures

During the Yuan dynasty, ________ was a popular subject for painting.

Bamboo

The Navajo sand, or dry, paintings are used in which ritual?

curing disease

The ________ caused a century of anarchy in central Mexico around 1200.

destruction of tula

Typical Melanesian societies are ________ .

fairly democratic

Daimyo were ________ in the Japanese shogunate.

feudal lords

The female praying mantis is a reference to ________ .

headhunting

The Temple of Huitzilopochtli at Tenochtitlán commemorates the god's victory over ________ .

his sister and four hundred brothers

Which of the following is symbolic of the headhunter and appears on bisj poles?

hornbill

What kind of necklace does Coatlicue wear?

human hands and hearts

The Pacific Islands were discovered by the Europeans in which century?

16th century

The Qing Dynasty ended in ________ .

1912

Haida house frontal poles display ________ .

Clan emblems

How did one enter a teahouse?

Crawling on hands and knees

During the Edo period, Westerners were expelled, however, ________ were exempt.

Dutch

How have scholars referred to the period of the late 15th century through the late 16th century in Japan?

Era of Warring States

The Mongols, led by ________ , invaded China in 1210 and destroyed the Jin dynasty's capital at Beijing.

Genghis Khan

________ had the most highly stratified social structure in the Pacific?

Hawaii

Who brought a contingent of Spanish explorers to Mexico?

Hernan cortes

Carnations and Garden Rock is an example of Ming painting that was imported from ________ .

Japan

Which of the following events ended the last Korean dynasty?

Japanese annexation

The last Korean dynasty was ________ .

Joseon

Who proposed the division of the Pacific into major regions?

Jules Dumont d-Urville

This style featured precisely applied ink in bold patterns.

Kano School

Which of the following was considered the most prestigious subject matter for painting in Ming China?

Landscape

________ was a Plains art form that continued to flourish during the reservation years.

Ledger painting

Northern Chan Buddhists believed that only after ________ could one achieve enlightenment.

Long Training

________ was discovered in 1911.

Machu Piccu

An early European visitor to the court of Kublai Khan was ________ .

Marco Polo

In Zen Buddhism enlightenment is achieved through ________ .

Meditation

Which dynasty drove the last Mongol emperor from Beijing?

Ming

________ are scenic arrangements of natural and artificial elements intended to produce irregularities.

Ming pleasure gardens

The screen Chinese Lions by Kano Eitoku became an important symbol for ________ .

Momoyama

During which period did Zen, or Chan, Buddhism flourish?

Muromachi

Which of the following dominates Melanesia?

New Guinea

A transformation mask would be found in which area?

Northwest coast

Tatami accommodate which of the following Japanese customs?

Not wearing shoes indoors

For lacquer ware, imperial patronage went to the ________ .

Orchard Factory

Zen Buddhism emphasized ________ .

Personal responsibility

Which of the following was the last area to be settled by humans?

Polynesia

During the Yuan period, the Chinese mastered ________ .

Porcelain

Which of the following were preeminent in the art of writing?

Postclassic Maya

The Manchus of Manchuria invaded China in the 17th century and established which of the following?

Qing Dynasty

This school did not have continuity of lineage and training. It is characterized by vivid color and extensive use of gold and silver as well as decorative patterning.

Rinpa School

he subject matter of the Borgia Codex is primarily ________ .

Rituals

Zen Buddhism appealed particularly to ________ .

Samurai

One of the most renowned tea masters of the Momoyama period was ________ .

Sen no Rikyu

Who was a practitioner of the splashed-ink (haboku) style?

Sesshu Toyo

The bodies of conquered enemies were sacrificed in the Great Temple at Tenochtitlán and then hurled down the stairs to land on the ________ .

Stone of Coyolxauhqui

A nishiki-e, or brocade picture, is sumptuous, brilliant, and printed on the best quality paper using costly inks. An artist who played a key role in developing this style was ________ .

Suzuki Harunobu

Who designed the stadiums for the 1964 Olympics held in Tokyo?

Tange Kenzo

The Rinpa School traced its roots to ________ .

Tawarata Sotatsu

Who promoted the ideal of beauty that was inspired by the tea ceremony and could be achieved in functional objects made of natural materials by anonymous craftspeople?

Yanagi Soetsu

The Chinese principle of active masculine energy is ________ .

Yang

The Pine Forest by Hasegawa Tohaku, which evokes a calm, meditative mood, is suggestive of which discipline.

Zen

The phoenix is an allegorical symbol for ________ .

an empress

The moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) most likely depict ________ .

ancestral chiefs

________ were former practitioners of headhunting?

asmat

During the early 19th century, ranking women of Tonga made ________ .

barkcloth

Micronesian cultures frequently are ruled by ________ .

chieftains

Which of the following describes the Plains peoples?

nomadic

Those peoples conquered by the Inka had to wear ________ .

only their local dress

The Inka wove bands of small squares of various repeated abstract designs into their garments; it is thought these represented ________ .

political meaning

What does the yam mask of the Abelam represent?

power and prestige

The Inka had an efficient and swift communication system that depended on ________ .

relay runners

The rooster on the men's house, or bai, from Belau, in the Caroline Islands symbolizes the ________ .

rising sun

Coatlicue had great claws on both her hands and feet that symbolized ________ .

sacrificial death

Which of the following describes the literati?

scholar-artists

Micronesian art relates to ________ .

seafaring

Which of the following describes Australian Aboriginal art?

small and portable

In addition to a high cross, Cortés proposed to place a ________ in the Temple of Huitzilopochtli?

statue of the virgin

Which of the following describes the Iatmul men's house?

symbolizes protective ancestors

The Ming designed Beijing as which of the following?

three nested wall cities

How long did the conquest of the Aztec Empire take?

two years

The imperial palace compound was named the Forbidden City because it was ________ .

very restricted

The acquisition of power by Marquesan chiefs was usually the result of ________ .

warfare