Renaissance to Modern Art History Exam Chapters 33, 34,35

Takahashi Yuichi's Oiran (Grand Courtesan) is a work that combines aspects of traditional Japanese art and Western practices. What is one Western aspect of this painting?

The oil painting technique

What kind of subjects are found in ukiyo-e artworks, popularized in Japan beginning in the Edo period?

The pleasures of everyday life

What is symbolized by the Namdaemun in Seoul, built in 1398?

The power and authority of the new Joseon dynasty

Tatami are standard features of Japanese residential architecture that became central to what Japanese custom in the Momoyama period?

The tea ceremony

The "Hamada-Leach aesthetic" in ceramics is associated with what qualities?

The use of course, dark stoneware

Which of the following characteristics is NOT associated with the Rinpa style, which emerged in the Edo period and is associated with Tawaraya Sotatsu and Ogata Korin, as well as Honami Koetsu's Boat Bridge writing box?

The use of dull colors

Despite its militaristic aspects, the Himeji castle, known as the White Heron Castle, possesses a sense of weightlessness due to what features?

The white plastered wood walls and winglike profiles of its tile roofs

What was an especially popular subject for painting during the Yuan dynasty?

Bamboo

Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa combines Japanese and Western stylistic features. What is one Western aspect of this woodblock print?

The low horizon line

Which of these settings is depicted in the scene of the lovers' tryst, Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion?

Night garden with lightning flashes

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

Which style is NOT a model for the Victoria Terminus?

Combination Chinese and Mughal

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 structural system was employed by Kenzo Tange in his design of the stadiums for the 1964 Olympics?

A cable suspension system

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

The enormous six-panel screen titled Chinese Lions by Kano Eitoku was a fitting work for what kind of patron in the Momoyama period?

A warlord

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.

Where in India is the Taj Mahal located?

Agra

How is the artist Dong Qichang described by some art critics?

As the first modernist painter

How did one enter a teahouse, such as the Taian teahouse of the Myokian temple in Kyoto?

Crawling on hands and knees

Which of the following serves as the Thai palladium, guaranteeing the prosperity of the modern kingdom of Thailand?

Emerald Buddha

Sesshu Toyo practiced the splashed-ink (haboku) style during the Muromachi period. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the splashed-ink style?

Exacting precision in ink application

What is the term for gateway towers, the popular structural motif found in Indian temple complexes?

Gopuras

The Emerald Buddha in the Emerald Temple, Bangkok, Thailand, is carved from what material?

Green jade

What aspect of Yuan dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu's career is distinctive?

He accepted an official post under Kublai Khan.

What is distinctive about the portrait Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar, who was ruler of Jodhpur in Rajasthan?

He is portrayed as an ordinary British gentleman.

How is Krishna usually portrayed in Indian art?

In blue

How does Akbar and the Elephant Hawai from the Akbarnama serve as a metaphor for Akbar's rule?

It represents taking charge of an unruly state.

Passages from what text are inscribed on the walls of the Taj Mahal?

Koran

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

Ando Hiroshige was one of the most renowned Japanese printmakers specializing in what kind of imagery?

Landscape painting

What type of art in Japan was adapted directly from a Chinese model?

Literati 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

Distinctive multilobed arches exemplify the stylistic crosscurrents that typify South Asian architecture in the second millennium. Which of the following structures in India has this element?

Lotus Mahal, Vijayanagara

The David Vases contain images of dragons and phoenixes. What do these figures likely represent?

Male and female energy, respectively

The grand architectural project of the Forbidden City is a testament to the power and artistic prowess that characterizes what Chinese dynasty?

Ming

What is the term for the Japanese folk art tradition that became a strong influence on ceramic artists such as Hamada Shoji?

Mingei

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

Founded in 1954, the Gutai movement devoted itself to art that combined Japanese traditional practices such as Zen with a renewed appreciation for materials. What type of art did many Gutai artists engage in?

Performance art

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

Who gifted the illustrated eight-volume Royal Polyglot Bible to Akbar in 1580?

Portuguese Jesuits

For whom was the 1878-1887 Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) in Mumbai originally named?

Queen of England

Which structure is the tallest extant mosque tower in the world?

Qutb Minar

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

Which of the following was instrumental in establishing the aesthetics and rituals of the tea ceremony, and designed the first free-standing Japanese teahouse in the Momoyama period?

Sen no Rikyu

Which deity is the Great Temple at Madurai dedicated to?

Shiva and his consort

What significant relics are housed in the Schwedagon Pagoda at Rangoon?

Strands of the historical Buddha's hair

The body type of the Sukhothai Walking Buddha expresses which of the following ideas?

Supernatural being

A nishiki-e, or brocade picture, is sumptuous, brilliant, and printed on the best quality paper using costly inks. Which artist played a key role in developing this style in the Edo period?

Suzuki Harunobu

Monumental tombs were not part of either the Hindu or Buddhist traditions, but had a long history in Islamic architecture. Which of these is a monumental tomb?

Taj Mahal

What is significant about the artist of the miniature painting of Shah Tahmasp of the early 17th century?

The artist is one of the few known Mughal women artists

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

Indian miniatures were designed for which of the following purposes?

To be held in the hands

What is the function of a rock garden at a Zen Buddhist monastery, such as the Karesansui garden at Ryoanji?

To facilitate meditation

What was the goal of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, founded by American Ernest Fenollosa and his former student, Okakura Kakuzo, in the Meiji period?

To make Japanese painting viable in the modern age and promote the nihonga style

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

Zen Buddhism