Deck 7: Chinese and Korean Art After 1279

Question 1

What was Zhao Mengfu reacting to or interpreting in the iconography of Sheep and Goat ?

A)court paintings
B)animal interactions
C)Buddhist scripture
D)foreign rulers

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Literati painting was an established academic style practiced at court during which period of Chinese history?

A)Yuan
B)Ming
C)Qing
D)Song

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Garden of the Cessation of Official Life was designed to

A)encourage leisure and foster the owner's scholarly pursuits.
B)reflect Confucian beliefs about the individual's role in society.
C)show an ideal plan for balance and harmony in the universe.
D)recall the owner's successful career as a government official.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What makes the Korean buncheong ware resemble more expensive white porcelain?

A)crackle glaze
B)brown slip
C)white slip
D)red slip

Question 5

What was often part of a handscroll and could consist of inscriptions related to the work, such as a poem or comments by various owners of the scroll over time?

A)index
B)antiphon
C)forward
D)colophon

Question 6

Which colors are particularly noteworthy among Ming porcelain wares, such as the fifteenth-century flask with dragons ?

A)red and white
B)blue and white
C)grey and white
D)green and-white

Question 7

With the fall of the north to invaders in 1126, which court set up a new capital in the south that became the cultural and economic center of the country?

A)Song
B)Tang
C)Shang
D)Zhou

Question 8

What does a treasured scroll often bear that not only identifies its maker but also collectors and admirers of that scroll throughout the centuries?

A)fingerprints
B)seals
C)colophons
D)symbolism

Question 9

Who was the primary audience of literati paintings?

A)patrons from court
B)lower government officials
C)close friends and scholars
D)private collectors

Question 10

During the 1980s, who emerged as a leader in Chinese painting for his synthesis of Chinese and Western ideas and techniques?

A)Yin Hong
B)Shitao
C)Wu Guanzhong
D)Wen Hong

Question 11

Which individualist from the Qing period painted Reminiscences of Qinhuai River?

A)Shitao
B)Guang Zhou
C)Wang Hui
D)Qiu Ying

Question 12

Which of the following was a preeminent professional painter in the Ming period who produced the influential handscroll Spring Dawn in the Han Palace ?

A)Guan Zhou
B)Zhao Mengfu
C)Dai Jin
D)Qiu Ying

Question 13

The symbolism of Yun Shouping's Amaranth shows homages to court officials from what tradition?

A)Yuan
B)Shang
C)Qing
D)Tang

Question 14

The earliest extant and dated Joseon secular painting is

A)Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land .
B)Returning Home Late from a Spring Outing .
C)A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines .
D)The Qingbian Mountains .

Question 15

Which work reflects the study of Western modernism, as well as Eastern roots?

A)Roof Tiling
B)Reminiscences of Qinhuai River
C)Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land
D)Universe 5-IV-71 #200

Question 16

Characteristically, Chinese furniture is constructed without the use of glue or nails, relying instead on the principle of

A)twisted assembly.
B)the bent connection.
C)the mortise-and-tenon joint.
D)cement joining.

Question 17

During the Ming dynasty, emphasis on painting's expressive nature brought it closer to what other Chinese art form?

A)porcelain production
B)calligraphy
C)landscape design
D)poetry

Question 18

What feature distinguishes Korean porcelains from those of the Ming dynasty in China?

A)asymmetrical designs
B)underglazing
C)natural subjects
D)irregular shapes

Question 19

How does Poet on a Mountaintop represent the essence of Ming literati painting?

A)the loose rendering of a mountain landscape
B)the harmonious blending of mind and nature
C)the emphasis on the solitary man
D)the use of calligraphy

Question 20

Dong Qichang based his ideas about China's Northern and Southern schools of painting on

A)regional centers of artistic production.
B)parallels he saw in Buddhist practice.
C)traditions associated with the Song dynasty.
D)political divisions of the Yuan dynasty.

Question 21

Who was Dong Qichang? Address his achievements.

Question 22

How does Whanki Kim exemplify Western and Eastern ideals?

Question 23

Explain the silhak movement.What is the meaning of the word silhak?

Question 24

How did conditions in Korea from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century affect its artistic development?

Question 25

Which kilns were destroyed by invading Japanese armies in the last decade of the sixteenth century and brought the ware's production to a halt?

A)barbarian
B)kaolin
C)buncheong
D)literati

Question 26

Explain the dry brush technique.Identify an artist and a work associated with this technique.

Question 27

Who were the painters known as the individualists?

Question 28

Dong Qichang created his Qingbian Mountains in what standard format of Chinese painting?

A)hanging scroll
B)handscroll
C)album leaf
D)plate scroll

Question 29

After the Mongol invasions, how did China view itself in relation to the rest of the world?

Question 30

The symmetrical layout of the Forbidden City intentionally emphasizes the emperor's role as

A)the Son of the Seas.
B)the greatest Ruler.
C)the Son of Heaven.
D)the Son of Buddha.

Question 31

What is the derivation of the word porcelain, and how was it made?

Question 32

What is the Forbidden City ? Who built it? Consider its origins, its design, and its symbolism.

Question 33

Artist Zhao Mengfu, a descendant of the imperial line of Song who chose to serve the Yuan government, was well known for his finely rendered paintings of which animal?

A)birds
B)horses
C)turtles
D)cats

Question 34

The Forbidden City was built for the most part by rulers from which dynasty?

A)Qing
B)Ming
C)Joseon
D)Yuan

Question 35

Explain the significance of the dragon in Chinese tradition.Cite a specific example of its representation in the arts.