Review for Non-Western Presentations Test: Chapters 25, 27, 30, 31
What was a favorite exercise of cultivation and refinement in the Momoyama period?
Tea ceremony
The Church of Santo Domingo, Cuzco was erected over the ________.
Temple of the Sun
The Walking Buddha occurred only in ________
Thailand
The most skilled goldsmiths in Mesoamerica Mexico were the ________
Mixtecs
The moai of Rapa Nui stand up to heights of ________
40 feet
What is the Taj Mahal?
A mausoleum
The Lotus Mahal in Vijayanagara is known to have functioned as ________.
A temple
The subject of Meera Mukherjee's greatest work, according to scholars, is ________
Ashoka
The concept of Dreamings is associated with the natives of ________.
Australia
Tenochtitlán was the ________ capital.
Aztec
Which of the following pre-Columbian cultures is most recent?
Aztec
The painting Akbar and the Elephant Hawai was made by:
Basawan and Chatar Muni
The Qutb Minar, a 238 foot tall sandstone minaret, is located in ________.
Delhi
Edo period rulers banned Christianity and all Westerners except the ________.
Dutch
A majority of the islands of Oceania are inhabited.
False
Few Maya codices remain due to the fragility of the media which they were produced.
False
Mural painting was the most popular form of painting under the Mughal emperors of India.
False
The supreme masters of shaping and fitting stones for architecture were the ________.
Inka
A prime example of dry-joining masonry (masonry without mortar) is found in the ________.
Inka Temple of the Sun at Cuzco
The tomb of the Taj Mahal is octagonal in plan and has typically ________ arcuated niches
Iranian
Which of the following was growing as a political and religious force in 13th century India?
Islam
Who was the son and successor of Akbar?
Jahangir
Who did Bichitr include in a portrait of Jahangir?
James I of England
One of the primary ideals of Japanese residential architecture is to ________.
achieve a harmonious integration of building and garden
The alcove in a tearoom used to hang scrolls of paintings or calligraphy and to display prized objects was the ________.
Tokonoma
Which of the following was a renowned tea master?
Toyo Yesshu
Akbar the Great was a great admirer of Iranian narrative paintings
True
Many Oceanic arts are resurgent today as a result of tourist trade.
True
Many artists produced artworks primarily in India ink during the Muromachi period.
True
The Mixtec became the skilled goldsmiths of Mesoamerica after the introduction of metallurgy.
True
The function of the two story monument known at the Lotus Mahal is unknown.
True
The two major painting schools during the Muromachi period were the Tosa and the Kano.
True
Under Jahangir's reign Mughal painting showed influences of European and Persian styles.
True
The worship of Krishna is most closely linked to ________.
Vishnu
The slaughter of the Lakota participants in the Ghost Dance took place at ________
Wounded Knee Creek
Many of the traditional native arts of Oceania are not now practiced because ________.
all of these choices
Which of the following is the Japanese term for western style painting?
yoga
India gained independence from the British in what year?
1947
The Rimpa School of painting was established during the ________.
Edo period
The Might of Islam Mosque constructed by Qutb al-Din Aybak was all original construction.
False
The Qutb Minar, a 238 foot tall minaret, suits perfectly its intended purpose.
False
Zen temples were used only for religious functions.
False
What is another name commonly used for the former Imperial Palace Compound?
Forbidden City
Utilitarian objects made of leather and decorated with quillwork and/or beads were very popular with Native Americans of the ________
Great Plains
The Emerald Buddha is most probably carved from ________.
Green jade
The pivotal figure in the Kano School of painting was ________
Kano Motonobu
Dynamic forms covered with intricate curvilinear designs are most typical of the ________.
Maori
Only about eighteen pre-Columbian painted books, or codices, survive. They are mostly the works of the ________.
Mixtec and Maya
The group who was LEAST prominent during the Postclassical period was the ________.
Olmecs
The word tattoo commons from a ________ language
Polynesian
China is credited with the invention of ________.
Porcelain
Which of the following are constructed for Navajo ceremonies for curing disease?
Sand Paintings
Shino ware was typically ________
Simple form & rough surface
What devices did the artist of the portrait of Jaswant Singh, the ruler of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, use to display Singh's regal presence and pride?
Singh's curled beard, Singh's unflinching gaze, and Singh's two necklaces
Figure carvings on a Maori meeting house represent real and mythological ________
ancestors
Micronesian artists tend to simplify and to abstract geometrically the natural forms of ________.
animals, humans, and plants
Hawaiian sculpted images share a tendency toward ________.
athleticism and expressive defiance
The counterculture of the Edo Period produced ukiyo-e whose subject matter depicted Yoshiwara ________.
brothels
Throughout Chinese history _________ have been closely connected and equally esteemed
calligraphy and painting
What is Blellek?
ceremonial house
What totemic emblems do Haida poles display?
clan groups
Tsuchiya Kimio produces large-scale sculptures constructed of ________.
driftwood
Carved Kwakiutl masks were often meant to be seen in ________.
flickering firelight
The builders of the huge temple complexes employed gateway towers called ________.
gopuras
The Asmat consider the female praying mantis to be a symbol of ________
head hunting
Indian painters intended their works to be ________.
held in the hands
During the Muromachi period, many artists produced pictures primarily in ________.
india ink
Polynesian nobles and warriors accumulated tattoo patterns to increase their ________.
mana, personal beauty, and status
What became a major genre in Japan in the late 19th century?
oil painting
Plains peoples made shields and shield covers that were both artworks and ________.
power images
The feathered serpent is one guise for the Mesoamerican deity ________.
quetzalcoatl
Decorative motifs of North American pottery of the Southwest dealt largely with forces of nature such as ________.
rain wind but not earth
After confinement to reservations, Plains artists used ledger art to record not only their heroic past and vanished lifestyle but also their ________.
reactions to their new surroundings
Ukiyo-e allowed many print designers to flourish and led to ever greater ________ in printmaking.
refinement and experimentation
Abelam yam masks incorporate ________
sculpted faces
Mengei folk pottery is coarser, darker and heavier than porcelain, with a beauty described as ________.
simpler and earthier
The arts of the northwest coast of North America are expressions not only of spiritual beliefs but also of ________.
social status
The Asmat head-hunt was a way of maintaining a balance of ________.
spiritual power
Though there is no identifiable Zen style of painting, Zen works are visually bold and convey ________.
spontaneity and energy
Though the materials used in Japanese woodblock prints varied, by the mid-18th century they reached a level of ________.
standardization
Dong Qichang's classification of Chinese landscape painters as Northern or Southern was based upon _____________.
style
Sons Su-Nam forsook traditional brush strokes in his ink on paper art to explore ____________.
subtle tonal variations
Painters of the Momoyama Period were asked to create folding screens in ink, color, and gold leaf for ________.
warlords
In Polynesian society, who makes bark cloth?
women