South, East, and Southeast Asia (300 BCE to 1980)

Jacques Paye

  • c. 221–209 B.C.E. 

  • mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China, Shaanxi province

  • Qin Dynasty China

  • Painted terra cotta

Terra cotta warriors 

Cultural Context: Qin China 

Content: Underground citadel, more than 8000 soldiers

Formal Aspects: Each soldier seems to have different facial features, canon of proportions

Function: Guard tomb of emperor

Terra cotta warriors 

Terra cotta warriors 

  • Date: c. 180 B.C.E. 

  • Changsha, China

  • Han Dynasty

  • Painted silk.

Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui). 

Cultural Context: Tomb of Lady Dai

Content: painted silk banner over six feet long

Formal Aspects: 90 ft. high, covered in stucco. Grand staircases

Function: Horizontal registers, earliest-known portrait in China, gates to afterlife

Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui). 

 Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui). 

Hide painting of Sun Dance

  • 493–1127 C.E

  • Modern-day Henan Province, China

  • Buddhist China

  • Carved stone

Longmen caves. 

Cultural Context: Buddhist China

Content: 100,000 statues within over 2300 caves

Formal Aspects: Statues may have been painted before. various sculptural styles

Function: Demonstrate faith of various rulers over the years

Longmen caves. 

Longmen caves. 

Borobudur Temple

Date: c. 750–842 C.E. 

Geography: Central Java, Indonesia. 

Culture: . Sailendra Dynasty. 

Medium: Volcanic-stone masonry. 

Borobudur Temple

Cultural Context: Buddhist Java

Content: Three-dimensional mandala shape

Formal Aspects: Created to emulate walking a path

Function: Buddhist worship

Borobudur Temple

Chavin de Huantar,

Temple of Amun Re

  • c. 1000 C.E.

  • China

  • Fan Kuan (artist)

  • Ink on silk.

Travelers among Mountains and Streams

Cultural Context: Northern Song Dynasty

Content: 7-foot hanging scroll, shows universal creation

Formal Aspects: Example of Chinese landscape painting

Function: Decorative

Travelers among Mountains and Streams.

Travelers among Mountains and Streams.

Catal Huyuk and detail from Mona Lisa

  • 1351 C.E.

  • China

  • White porcelain with cobalt-blue underglaze.

  • Yuan Dynasty

The David Vases

The David Vases

Cultural Context: Presented to Daoist temple

Content: Two large vases, elephant handles

Formal Aspects: Iconic example of white/blue porcelain style

Function: Altar of Daoist temple

The David Vases

Niobides Krater

Black-on-Black ceramic vessel

  • c. 15th century C.E.

  • Korea

  • Imperial Bureau of Painting.

  • Hanging scroll (ink and color on silk).

Portrait of Sin Sukju

Portrait of Sin Sukju

Cultural Context: Korean kingdom

Content: Sin Sukju sitting on chair

Formal Aspects: Careful attention to facial features, wrinkles of robe

Function: Depict successful civil servant

  • 15th century C.E. and later.

  • Beijing, China. Ming Dynasty.

  • Stone masonry, marble, brick, wood, and ceramic tile.

     

Forbidden City

Forbidden City

Cultural Context: Resulted from a coup

Content: Large palace, includes temples and living quarters

Formal Aspects: Divided into two areas, hierarchical construction

Function: Political/religious center

  • Fifth to sixth century C.E.

  • Korea.

  • Three Kingdoms Period, Silla Kingdom,

  • Metalwork.

Gold and jade crown

Gold and jade crown.

Cultural Context: 3 rivaling kingdoms

Content: Crown made of gold and jade

Formal Aspects: Axis mundi representation, branches

Function: Rituals/burial

Bundu Mask

Crown of Egypt

  • 1450–1540 C.E.

  • based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua.

  • c. 1969 C.E.

  • Color lithograph.

Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan.

Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan.

Cultural Context: Cultural Revolution, Great Leap Forward

Content: Mao en route to Anyuan

Formal Aspects: Nature/Technology, superhuman, idealized, darker color scheme

Function: Party propaganda

Augustus of Prima Porta/Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Sources:

 

  • http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/439

  • http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3181344&partId=1

  • https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/global-culture/identity-body/identity-body-europe/a/liu-chunhua-chairman-mao

  • https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/imperial-china/ming-dynasty/a/forbidden-city

  • https://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/47/index.html

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