Art 105 Exam 2

"Fear not" hand gersture

Abhaya Mudra

flat and powerful

Against a background with the low horizon line typical of Western painting, Hokusai placed a threatening wave in the foreground, painted using the traditional ____________________ graphic forms of Japanese art.

Porcelain

Extremelyfine,hard,whiteceramic. Unlike stoneware, porcelain is made from a fine white clay called kaolin mixed with ground petuntse, a type of feldspar. True porcelain is translucent and rings when struck.

Handscroll

In Asian art, a horizontal painted scroll that is unrolled right to left, section by section, and often used to present illustrated religious texts or landscapes.

Hanging Scroll

In Asian art, a vertical scroll hung on a wall with pictures mounted or painted directly on it.

Literati

In China, talented amateur painters and scholars from the landed gentry.

splashed-ink

In this _______________________ landscape, the artist applied primarily broad, rapid strokes, sometimes even dripping the ink on the paper. The result hovers at the edge of legibility, without dissolving into sheer abstraction.

Karesansui

Japanese dry-landscape gardening.

Album Leaves

Many Chinese artists painted small panels on paper leaves, which were collected in albums.

Samurai

Medieval Japanese warriors.

Namdaemun Seoul, South Korea Choson Dynasty, 1398

Name Location Period, Year

Sons of Heaven Throne Room

The Ming emperors—the _______________________—ruled China for almost three centuries from the Forbidden City (FIG. 4-6) in Beijing. Few ever entered the palace's magnificent ______________.

Lohan

A Buddhist holy person who has achieved enlightenment and nirvana by suppression of all desire for earthly things.

Chinese Lingering Garden

A favorite element of _______________ gardens was fantastic rockwork. For the ______________________, workmen dredged the stones from a nearby lake and sculptors shaped them to produce an even more natural look.

Silk Road

A network of caravan tracts across Central Asia linking China and the Mediterranean world

Xie He's Six Canons

A set of six "canons," or "laws," of painting that Xie He formulated in the early sixth century.

Tokonoma

A shallow alcove in a Japanese room, which is used for decoration, such as a painting or stylized flower arrangement.

Glaze

A vitreous coating applied to pottery to seal and decorate the surface; it may be colored, trans- parent, or opaque, and glossy or matte. In oil painting, a thin, transparent, or semitransparent layer applied over a color to alter it slightly.

Yamato-e

Also known as native-style painting, a purely Japanese style that often involved color- ful, decorative representations of Japanese nar- ratives or landscapes.

Tange Kenzo Tokyo, Japan Showa Period, 1961-1964

Artist Name Location Period, Years

Confucianism

Built on an ancient religious foundation to establish the social values, institutions, and transcendent ideals of traditional Chinese society.

first modernist painter

Dong Qichang, the "_____________________________" conceived his landscapes as shaded masses of rocks alternating with blank bands, flattening the composition and creating expressive, abstract patterns.

haniwa protective spiritual barrier

During the Kofun period, the Japanese set up cylindrical clay statues (___________) of humans, animals, and objects on burial tumuli. They served as a ____________________________________ between the living and the dead

Calligraphy

Greek, "beautiful writing." Hand- writing or penmanship, especially elegant writ- ing as a decorative art.

brocade pictures

Harunobu's nishiki-e (_____________________) took their name from their costly pigments and paper. The rich color and flatness of the objects, women, and setting in this print are characteristic of the artist's style.

Shogun

In 12th- through 19th-century Japan, a military governor who managed the country on behalf of a figurehead emperor.

Haboku (Splashed-ink)

In Japanese art, a loose and rapidly executed painting style in which the ink seems to have been applied by flinging or splashing it onto the paper.

Tarashikomi

In Japanese art, a painting technique involving the dropping of ink and pigments onto surfaces still wet with previously applied ink and pigments.

Underglaze

In porcelain decoration, the technique of applying mineral colors to the surface before the main firing, followed by an application of clear glaze.

hanging scroll Buddhist monastery vertically

In this _______________________ made for a ______________________, Zhou Jichang arranged the fore-, middle-, and background _________________ to elevate the lohans in their bright attire above the ragged, dirt-colored beggars.

Lady Murasaki's

In this handscroll illustrating _____________________________ Tale of Genji, the upturned ground plane and diagonal lines suggest three-dimensional space. Flat fields of color emphasize the painting's two-dimensional character.

114

In this propagandistic tableau incorporating ______ figures, sculptors depicted the exploitation of peasants by their merciless landlords during the grim times before the Communists' takeover of China.

tea teahouses

Initially, the Japanese held _____ ceremonies in a room or section of a house. As the popularity of the ceremonies increased, freestanding ____________ became common.

Ukiyo-e

Japanese "Pictures of the floating world." During the Edo Period, woodcut prints depicting brothels, popular entertainment, and beautiful women.

Tumulus (tumuli)

Latin, "burial mound." In Etruscan architecture, tumuli cover one or more subterranean multi-chambered tombs cut out of the local tufa (limestone). Also characteristic of the Japanese Kofun period of the third and fourth centuries.

Evening Bell at the Clock Suzuki Harunobi Eight views of the Parlor Edo Period, 1765 Woodblock Print Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Japanese

Name Artist From Period, Year Style Present-Day Location Culture

The Great Wave off Kanagawa Katsushika Hokusai Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Edo Period, 1826-1833 Woodblock Print, Ink and Colors on paper Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Japanese

Name Artist From Period, Year Style, Material Present-Day Location Culture

Taian Teahouse (interior view) Sen No Rikyu Myokian Temple, Kyoto, Japan Momoyama Period, 1582 Japanese

Name Artist Location Period, Year Culture

Shaka Triad Tori Busshi Horyushi, Nara Prefecture, Japan Asuka Period, 623 Bronze Japanese

Name Artist Location Period, Year Material Culture

Kutsugen Yokoyama Taikan Itsukushima Shrine, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan Meiji Period, 1898 Hanging Scroll, color on silk Japanese

Name Artist Location Period, Year Style, Material Culture

Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom Kano Motonobu Daitokuji, Kyoto, Japan Muromachi Period, 1513 Hanging Scroll, ink and color on paper Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Japanese

Name Artist Location Period, Year Style, Material Present-Day Location Culture

Rent Collection Courtyard (detail of larger tableau) Ye Yushan (and others) Dayi, China 1965 Clay 100-yards long with life-size figures

Name Artist Location Year Material Size

Lady Feng and the Bear (detail of Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies) Gu Kaizhi Late Fourth Century (Period of Disunity) Hand Scroll, ink and colors on silk British Museum, London Chinese

Name Artist Period Style Location Culture

Tea Ceremony Water Jar Kogan Momoyama Period, Late 16th century Shino ware with underglaze design Hatakeyama Memorial Museum, Tokyo Japanese

Name Artist Period, Century Material Present-Day Location Culture

Man in a House Beneath a Cliff Shitao Qing Dynasty, late 17th century Album Leaf, ink and colors on paper Wang Collection, New York Chinese

Name Artist Period, Century Style, Material Present-Day Location Culture

Sixth Chan Patriarch Chopping Bamboo Liang Kai Southern Song Period, early 13th century Hanging Scroll, Ink on paper Tokyo National Museum Chinese

Name Artist Period, Century Style, Material Present-Day Location Culture

Travelers among Mountains and Streams Fan Kuan Northern Song Period, early 11th century Hanging Scroll, ink and colors on silk National Palace Museum, Taibei Chinese

Name Artist Period, Century Style, materials Present-Day Location Culture

Red Plum Blossoms Ogata Korin Edo Period, 1710-1716 Ink, color, and gold leaf on paper Japanese

Name Artist Period, Year Material Japanese

Auspicious Cranes Huizong Northern Song Period, 1112 Handscroll Ink and Colors on silk Liaoning Provincial Museum, Shenyang Chinese

Name Artist Period, Year Section of which style Materials used Present-Day Location Culture

Auspicious Objects Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining) Qing Dynasty, 1724 Hanging Scroll, ink and colors on silk Palace Museum, Beijing Chinese

Name Artist Period, Year Style, Material Present-Day Location Culture

Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains Dong Qichang Ming Dynasty, 1617 Hanging Scroll, Ink on paper Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Chinese

Name Artist Period, Year Style, Material Present-Day Location Culture

Lohans Giving Alms to Beggars Zhou Jichang Southern Song Period, 1178 Hanging Scroll, Ink and colors on silk Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Korean

Name Artist Period, Year Style, Material Present-Day Location Culture

Emperor Xuan and attendants The Thirteen Emperors Yan Liben Tang Dynasty, ca. 650 Handscroll, ink and colors on silk Museum of fine arts, Boston Chinese

Name Detail of ______________________ Attributed Artist Dynasty, Year Style Present-day location Culture

Splashed-ink (haboku) landscape Hanging Scroll Muromachi Period, 1495 Ink on paper, Full scroll Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Japanese

Name Detail of the lower part of a _________ Period, Century Material Present-Day Location Culture

Genji visits Murasaki From the Minori Chapter, Tale if Genji Heian Period, First half of 12th century Handscroll, ink and color on paper Goto Art Museum Tokyo Japanese

Name From which chapter of which work Period, Century Present-Day Location Culture

Main hall of Amaterasu Shrine Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan Kofun Period or later Rebuilt in 1993 Japanese

Name Location Period Rebuilt it ___________ Culture

Army of the First Emperor of Qin Lington, China Qin Dynasty ca. 210 BCE Painted Terracotta Chinese

Name Location Period Style Culture

Dry cascades and pools, upper garden Saihoji Temple, Kyoto, Japan Modified in Muromachi Period, 14th Century Japanese

Name Location Period of modification, Century Culture

Throne Room, Hall of Supreme Harmony Forbidden City, Beijing, China Ming Dynasty, 15th Century and Later

Name Location Period, Century

Liu Yuan (Lingering Garden) Suzhou, China Ming Dynasty, 16th century and later Culture

Name Location Period, Century Chinese

(Aerial View of) The Forbidden City Beijing, China Ming Dynasty, 15th Century and Later Chinese

Name Location Period, Century Culture

Tomb of Emperor Nintoku Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Kofun Period, Late Fourth to early fifth century Japanese

Name Location Period, Century Culture

Portrait statue of the priest Shunjobo Chogen Todaiji, Nara, Japan Kamakura Period, early 13th century Painted Cypress Wood Japanese

Name Location Period, Century Material Culture

Crown North Mound of Tomb 98, Hwangnamdong, near Kyongju, Korea, Three Kingdoms Period, fifth to sixth century Gold and Jade Kyongju National Museum, Kyongju Korean

Name Location Period, Century Material Present-Day Location Culture

Haniwa Warrior Gunma Prefecture, Japan Kofun Period, Fifth to mid-sixth century Low-Fired Clay National Museum, Tokyo Japanese

Name Location Period, Century Material Present-Day Location Culture

Phoenix Hall, Byodoin Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Heian Period, 1053 Japanese

Name Location Period, Year Culture

Eastern Facade of the Katsura Imperial Villa Kyoto Japan Edo Period, 1620-1663

Name Location Period, Years

Temple Vases Yuan Dynasty, 1351 Cobalt-Blue Underglaze British Museum, London Chinese

Name Period, Year Material Location Culture

Dish with Lobed Rim Qing Dynasty, 1700 White Porcelain with overglaze Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London Chinese

Name Period, Year Material Present-Day Location Culture

Table With Drawers Ming Dynasty, 1426-1435 Carved Red Lacquer on a Wood Core Victoria and Albert Museum, London Chinese

Name Period, Years Material Present-Day Location Culture

Shakyamuni and Prabhutaratna Hebei Province, Northern Wei Dynasty, 518 Gilded Bronze Earlier Chinese Buddhist Art Musée Guimet,Paris. Mandorla and Lalitasana

Name Province, Dynasty, Year Style Culture Present-Day Location Architectural Features

Rinpa

Ogata Korin was one of the leading painters of the 18th-century _________ School. In this work he reduced the landscape motifs to a minimum to offer a dramatic contrast of forms and visual textures.

Daoism

Philosophy stresses an intuitive awareness, nurtured by harmonious contact with nature, and shuns everything artificial. Seek to follow the universal path, or principle, whose features cannot be described but only suggested through analogies.

Haniwa

Sculpted fired pottery cylinders, modeled in human, animal, or other forms and placed on Japanese tumuli of the Kofun period.

massed ink individualized brushwork patterns

Shitao experimented with extreme effects of _____________ and ____________________________. In this album leaf, he surrounded a hut with vibrant, free- floating colored dots and sinuous contour lines.

cable suspension

Tange was one of the most daring architects of post-World War II Japan. His Olympic stadiums employ a ____________________ system that allowed him to shape steel and concrete into remarkably graceful structures.

20 white cranes Huizong('s) 1112 auspicious

The Chinese regarded the ______________________ that appeared at ___________________ palace in the year ____________ as an ________________ sign. This painting of that event is a masterful combination of elegant composition and realistic observation.

Qin mound 6,000 terracotta common molds individualized appearance

The First Emperor of the _____________ Dynasty was buried beneath an immense _______________ guarded by more than _______________ life-size _______________ soldiers. Although produced from _________________, every figure has an _____________________________.

Shogunate

The Japanese military government of the 12th through 19th centuries.

Amida's palace

The Phoenix Hall's elaborate winged form evokes images of __________________________ in the Western Pure Land. Situated on a reflective pond, the temple suggests the floating weightlessness of celestial architecture.

Kei naturalism

The _____ school's interest in ____________ is seen in this moving portrait of a Kamakura priest. The wooden statue is noteworthy for its finely painted details and powerful rendering of the signs of aging.

Kano

The _______ School represents the opposite pole of Muromachi Style from splashed-ink painting. In this scroll depicting a Zen patriarch experiencing enlightenment, Motonobu used bold outlines to define the forms.

Orchard Factory lacquered wood

The ____________________ was the leading Ming workshop for ________________ furniture. The lacquer on this table was thick enough to be carved with floral motifs and the imperial dragon and phoenix.

tumulus clay haniwa

The largest Kofun ____________, attributed to Emperor Nintoku, has a keyhole shape and three surrounding moats. About 20,000 ____________________ were originally displayed on the giant earthen mound.

Forbidden City ritual surrounding Ming Successive Supreme Harmony

The layout of the ______________________ provided the perfect setting for the elaborate __________________ the _________ emperor. _____________ gates regulated access to the Hall of ________________

Gandhara-derived elongated sharp ridges

The sculptor of this statuette transformed the ______________________ style of earlier Chinese Buddhist art. The bodies have ______________ proportions, and the garment folds form ______________________.

Tatami

The traditional woven straw mat used for floor covering in Japanese architecture.

wabi sabi

The vessels used in the Japanese tea ceremony reflect the concepts of______, the aesthetic of refined rusticity, and__________, the value found in weathered objects. These qualities suggest the tranquility achieved in old age

happiness success longevity

This dish featuring the three star gods of____________, ______________, and_______________ exemplifies the overglaze porcelain technique in which all the colors come from applying enamels on top of the glaze surface.

jade Silla life and supernatural power

This gold-and-______ crown from a _______ tomb attests to the wealth of that kingdom and the skill of its artists. The uprights may be stylized tree and antler forms symbolizing _____________________.

porcelain cobalt-blue underglaze Dragons and phoenixes Male Female

This vase is an early example of _________________ with _________________________ decoration. _______________________ , symbols of ____________ and _____________ energy, respectively, are the major painted motifs.

handscroll 13 Chinese Confucian moral and political Yan Liben

This___________________ portrays _____________________ rulers as _________________ exemplars of _________________________ virtue. _____________________, a celebrated Tang painter, was a master of line drawing and colored washes.

Lacquered Wood

Wood that doesn't decay and is very hard

Fusuma

_____________ : Sliding Door Painting

Overglaze enamel

_______________ : In porcelain decoration, the technique of applying mineral colors over the glaze after the work has been fired. The overglaze colors, or _____________, fuse to the glazed surface in a second firing at a much lower temperature than the main firing.

(Giuseppe) Castiglione

_________________ was a Jesuit painter in Qing China who successfully combined European lighting techniques and three-dimensional volume with traditional Chinese literati subjects and compositions.

Liang Kai Chan moment

____________________ was a master of an expressive style of ink painting. Here, he depicted the Sixth Chan Patriarch's "___________________," when the chopping sound of his blade propelled the patriarch to enlightenment.

Landscape painting China Chinese brush and ink on silk

______________________ was one of the premier art genres in___________________. ________________ painters, however, did not aim to represent specific places but to capture the essence of nature using ____________________.

Lady Feng ('s) emperor Confucian Chinese Blank

________________________ act of heroism to save the life of her ____________ was a perfect model of __________________ behavior. In this early ____________ representation of the episode, the painter set the figures against a _____________ background.

Mandorla

a pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art.