Art History 202: Chapter 34: China and Korea (1279 to 1980)
Jeong Seon's painting Geumgangsan (Diamond Mountains) shows a view of a mountain peak in North Korea near the border with South Korea. What is the term for the painting approach taken by the artist?
"True view" painting
Outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Forbidden City, Beijing, are statues of a turtle and cranes. What do these animals symbolize in this context?
Longevity
The David Vases contain images of dragons and phoenixes. What do these figures likely represent?
Male and female energy, respectively
Who is Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining), the artist of Auspicious Objects, made during the Qing dynasty, in 1724?
A Jesuit missionary who painted the work in honor of the birthday of the third Qing ruler
What is being commemorated In Shang Xi's 15th-century painting titled Guan Yu Captures General Pang De?
A third-century event that inspired The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Who was Guan Daosheng, the calligrapher of Bamboo Groves in Mist and Rain?
A woman who was a successful painter, calligrapher, and poet
Why did the Imperial Palace compound in Beijing become known as the Forbidden City?
Access to the inner compound was highly restricted.
How is the artist Dong Qichang described by some art critics?
As the first modernist painter
What was an especially popular subject for painting during the Yuan dynasty?
Bamboo
The grand architectural project of the Forbidden City is a testament to the power and artistic prowess that characterizes what Chinese dynasty?
Ming
The Ming court had a lavish appetite for the decorative arts. What kind of luxury goods were produced at the Beijing workshop known today as the Orchard Factory?
Lacquered wood
What aspect of Yuan dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu's career is distinctive?
He accepted an official post under Kublai Khan.
What is the subject of Ye Yushan's Rent Collection Courtyard, made in 1965?
Peasants and merciless landlords in the grim times before the Communist takeover of China
What medium, other than painting, did the Chinese master during the Yuan dynasty?
Porcelain
The Ming court's painters created works for display in the Forbidden City. What subjects did they specialize in?
Portraiture and history painting
Wu Zhen, the artist of Stalks of Bamboo by a Rock, was a member of the literati. Which of the following best describes the literati?
Scholar-artists
What is symbolized by the Namdaemun in Seoul, built in 1398?
The power and authority of the new Joseon dynasty
Dong Qichang was an artist as well as an art critic who defined the visual features of the Northern School and Southern School of painting. What made the Southern School paintings superior, in his view?
They are freer and more expressive in style.
Which statement best describes Ming gardens, such as the Wangshi Yuan (Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets) in Suzhou?
They contain scenic arrangements of natural and artificial elements that are designed to look unplanned.
The Ming designed Beijing as which of the following?
Three nested walled cities