China

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BOWL WITH SLIP DECORATION OF MEN'S HEADS AND FISH.

-Yangshao culture, ca. 5000–4000 BCE.

-“Earthenware”: a clay body that is fired at low temperatures and is porousmeaning of this combo of ish and heads is in speculation

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DISC (BI).

-Warring States period,

- ca. 400–200 BCE.Jade.

-finest jade work

- Curling body suggests clouds

-Comes from a royal tomb

-Funerary Contest disc

-Roundness of the disc evokes Heaven which is allusion to dragons

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MASTER LAI'S BELL.

- Western Zhou dynasty,

- ca. 900–800 BCE.Bronze.

- Reverent to ancestors

- Bells were casted in different sizes and tonesSet of 8 originally for his father

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INFANTRY PIT.

- Qin dynasty,

- ca. 210 BCE.Earthenware. Life-size.

- Formed when kingdoms were all united

- Very authoritative ruler that didn’t put up with muchUnified currency and language

- Site was selected because it had really good feng shui

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FUNERARY BANNER.

- Western Han dynasty,

- ca. 180 BCE.Ink and color on silk

- Subject matter: Lady of Dai who was emperor's wifeBanner on her tomb

- Has yin-yang imagery which was part of Daoist religious beliefs

-SHAPE: suggest it was hung vertically

- Realms: Celestial, Earthly and Underworld

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HILL-SHAPED INCENSE BURNER.

- Western Han dynasty,

- ca. 113 BCE.Bronze and gold.

- Earliest representation of landscape in Chinese art

- Represents immortals spirits travelling around mountainsCostly to makeSmoke make it look like misty mountain

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FUNERAL SUIT.

- Western Han dynasty,

- ca. 113 BCE.Jade and gold.

- Princes suit is made of 25 placks of Jade AND GOLD wire

- Reflect Daoist beliefs of Alchemy (change one object to another)

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Jing Ke's Assassination Attempt

-A prince of a Rivaling state wanted to kill Qin Shihuangdi but failed and lost his head literally

- Carving on Stone

- c. 151 AD

- Eastern Hong dynasty

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ADMONITIONS OF THE COURT INSTRUCTRESS TO THE PALACE LADIES

- Six Dynasties,

- ca. 500–600

- Painter used minimal lines and plane background to highlight importance of Lady figures

- Flat 2D Plane & Last scene in the scroll

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SHAKYAMUNI AND ATTENDANTS.

- Northern Wei dynasty, completed

- 523

- Group makes offering to Chapel’s main image

- Historic Buddha is displayed with archaic smile

- His gesture: Fear Not- encourage people to give and receive

- Monks and Bodhisattva surround him

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MAHASATTVA JATAKA.

- Northern Zhou dynasty,

- ca. 557–581.

- One Mural represents Buddha in Mahasattva where he jumps off the cliff and feeds himself to the lions

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PLAYING POLO

- Tang dynasty,

- c. 706-711

- High pictorial imagery

- Game played between tibetans and chinese: CHINESE WON

- On the West wall on King’s tomb

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COURT LADIES

- Tang dynasty,

- c. 706

- Represent Princesses and their elaborate fashion and style

- Princess's tomb, where this was displayed and people could come visit her

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SPRING OUTING,

- Tang Dynasty COPY.

- Attributed to Zhan Ziqian.

- Fish scale waves to represent large body of water

- Composition recedes diagonally to sow depthPOlitical subject to show courts prosperity

- Blue/Green landscape including Azaurite and Malachite minerals

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NIGHT-SHINING WHITE.

- Tang dynasty,

- ca. 700–800.

- Attributed to Han Gan.

- Represents the horses that began to be imported from Ghana in HANG dynasty

- Horse tied to pole is a symbol to king’s power animalMany emporers have owned the piece and left their seal stamp on it

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THE THIRTEEN EMPERORS

- Probably a copy of an original Tang dynasty.

- Attributed to Yan Liben.

- They’re size distates their importanceWomen surround them (showin their place)

- Ladies are shown to be easily distracted from governed duties

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NIGHT REVELS OF HAN XIZAI

- Southern Song dynasty,

- ca. 1125–1200.

- Painting shows interaction of men and womenLee Yui discovered his advisor was having gatherings for fellow officials and students to mingle

-Copy after Gu Hongzhong.

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EARLY SPRING.

- Northern Song dynasty,

- ca. 1072.

- Guo XiSeal at the top is a suggestion it was commissioned by Emperor Shenxong

- Monumental landscape with tiny figures fishing in the bottom foreground

- Artist reveals concern with temporality evident in the representation of the season

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PEACE REIGNS ALONG THE RIVER

- Northern Song dynasty,

- ca. late 11th to early 12th century.

- Zhang Zeduan.

- Only a section of a whole scrollDepicts Rainbow bridge crowded with vendors and sightseers wandering

- Artist suggests the robust economy of the Song dynasty reflecting well on the emperor's governments

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A THOUSAND MILES OF RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS

- Northern Song dynasty,

- ca. 1113.

- Wang Ximeng.

- Scale and media of this work identify it as a Court productionSurreal beauty of mountains suggest Daoist of immortals

- Figures move through the landscape taking in scenery

- Supports notion that Emperor Huizong was a prosperous ruler

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FIVE TRIBUTE HORSES

- Northern Song dynasty

- ca. 1090.

- Shows sympathy/relationship between Man and Animals

- One of a bigger painting that includes 4 men with horses

- As the horse is a militant power symbol of China

- Horse is more detailed in order to show importance while male figure is just contouredMore naturalistic style of painting

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VIEWING PLUM BLOSSOMS BY MOONLIGHT.

- Southern Song dynasty.

- Fan mounted as an album leafMa Yuan.

- Shows scholar seated in the mountains observing the mountains

- One corner compositionUses combo of negative space and dilluded space

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TWELVE VIEWS OF LANDSCAPE4

- Southern Song dynasty,

- ca. 1210.

-Xia Gui with calligraphy by Empress Yang Meizi

- Last scene of 12 remaining

- empress single dragon seal suggests what calligrapger yan meizi

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WANG XIZHI WATCHING GEESE.

- Yuan dynasty,

- ca. 1295

- Qian Xuan.

- Subject matter: Scholar who was loyal to previous emperor then when new emperor came into power he became a monkFigure looking into Geese in the pond

- Shows daoist immortal landBlue pigments suggests that the Qian Xuan his withdrawal from the world

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SHEEP AND GOAT.

- Yuan dynasty,

- ca. 1300–1305.

- Zhao Mengfu made playfully

- Displays Sheep naturalistically is faced down to show how it is differential

- Goat is made awkwardly head up high to show pridePainting depicts Mongols and Chinese weren’t so differentShows their relationship

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DWELLING IN THE FUCHUN MOUNTAINS

- Yuan dynasty,

- ca. 1347–50.

- Huang Gongwang.

- Took him over 3 years to complete the painting

- Painting was damaged so they cut off that damaged section

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SIX GENTLEMEN.

- Yuan dynasty,

- ca. 1345.

- NI Zan

- Generally used dry pale ink to give painting Draws elements from Dong

-Ju Landscape tradition

- Trees are symbol for people Artist was known for static feel (staying in one position)

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THE HERMIT XU YOU RESTING BY A STREAM

- Ming dynasty.

- Dai Jin.

- Typical for Zhe styleIncludes ink wash and ax cut strokes associated Ma Yuan

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"POET ON A MOUNTAINTOP".

- Ming dynasty, ca. 1490–1500.

- Shen Zhou

- Part of a Ming Literati

- Displays strong vegetation on the mountainside

- Very wealthy and started his own art instittionHemp fiber stroke

- Poem and art were conceived to be a whole piece

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QINGBIAN MOUNTAINS.

-Ming dynasty, 1617.

- Dong QichangPainting is a reimaging of an original by Weng MengWang

- Men liked to look at old works and combine them with modern styles to get his style of art

- Replicates tree style of Fan Kuan in his paintings

- Politics are starting to make a huger contribution to paintings these days

- Moving away from naturalism and towards the idealistic rhelm

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MIND PICTURE OF A WELL

- Qing dynasty,

- ca. 1736.

-Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione) and Chinese court painters.

- Imitated tradition European style portraiture because of frontal perspective

- Inauguration of the emperors

- Clothing style reflects high social status

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A THOUSAND PEAKS AND MYRIAD RAVINES.

- Qing dynasty,

- ca. 1679.

- Gong Xian.

- Strong Chiascurro distinguishes the piece

- Dark landscape reflects artists somber mood between change in dynasty

- Different because of it has no negative space, little sense of depth and little atmospheric perspective

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MOON AND MELON.

- Qing dynasty,

- ca. 1689.

- Zhu Da (a.k.a Bada Shanren).

- Moon is supposed to resemble the moon cake eaten at Mid-Autumn festival

- Melon has 2 political references: 1. Melon alludes to the fall of rein of Don Ling 2. Melon seeds refer to the multiple empirical descendants

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REMINISCENCES OF QINHUAI RIVER

- Qing dynasty,

- ca. 1695–1700.

- Shitao

- Uses dots to indicate vegetation

- Trees on the side are quite bold and unusual

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SELF-PORTRAIT.

- Qing dynasty,

- ca. 1856–1857

- Ren Xiong

- Study in contradiction to adhere to conventional painting

- Roughly life-size

- Boldly outlined that make it seem cartoonishInscription refers to his sense of disconnection in a tumultuous world

- Takes on a more aggresive pose

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PORTRAIT OF MISS L.

- ca. 1929.

- Guan Zilan (a.k.a. Violet Kwan)

- Guan Zilan developed interest in woodblock prints

- Her clothes and jewelry are indicative of changing cultural norms in China

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TO THE FRONT!

- ca. 1932.

- Hu Yichuan.

- Woodblock print.

- Design mobilized to the Chinese Created after Japanese invasion of Manchuria

- Artist was inspired from German printmaker

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FOOLISH OLD MAN REMOVES THE MOUNTAIN.

- 1940.

- Xu Beihong.

- Old man figure wanted to remove the mountain from the view of his home so he passed that down his generations until the mountain was gone

- Unusual that the portrayal of male characters were nude

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FIGHTING IN NORTHERN SHAANXI.

- ca. 1959.

- Shi Lu

- Painter put Mao in an isolated position which was uncommon because Mao was trying to unify China at that time

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CHAIRMAN MAO GOES TO ANYUAN.

- ca.1968.

- Liu Chunhua

- Depicts Mao as a youthful Communist Organizer on his way to coal mining strike

- His stance on top of the mountain indicates his superiority over the viewer

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FATHER.

- 1980.

- Luo Zhongli

- Artist saw his man outside of a public bathroom and was inspired to record his suffering

- Painted in a photorealistic style

- Unusual that they used such a close perspective when the subject wasn’t any social importance

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MOUNTAINS CLEARING AFTER RAIN.

- ca. 1965–1970.

- Chang Dai-chienter

- Mist is an element that suggests transience and may have signified his itinerant of leaving China

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VOCAB: Earthenware

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a clay body that is fired at low tempuratures and is pourous

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VOCAB: Mandate of Heaven

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ancient chinese concept in which Heaven grants the ruler the right to rule

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VOCAB: Animistic

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Belief that everyone/everything has a soul or spirit even inanimate objects and natural phenomena

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VOCAB: Blue-Green Landscape

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style of Chinese landscape painting characterized by the prominent use of blue and green mineral pigments derived from azurite and malachite.

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VOCAB: Literati

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Scholar/Official

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VOCAB: Hippied Roof

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roof with four trapezoid sections sloping outward and down from a ridgepole at the top

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VOCAB: Axe-cut Stroke

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Triangular brushstroke that suggests the texture of wood chopped by an axe

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VOCAB: Hemp-fiber Strokes

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Long ropy brushstrokes used to indicate texture in landscape paintings of Dong-Ju tradition