Deck 25: Chinese and Korean Art After 1279

Question 1

What was Zhao Mengfu reacting to or interpreting in the iconography of Sheep and Goat (Fig. 25-2)?

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

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

A) Roof Tiling (Fig. 25-21)
B) Reminiscences of Qinhuai River (Fig. 25-15)
C) Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land (Fig. 25-19)
D) Universe 5-IV-71 #200 (Fig. 25-22)

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Who was the primary audience of literati paintings?

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

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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 5

The earliest extant and dated Joseon secular painting is

A) Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land (Fig. 25-19).
B) Returning Home Late from a Spring Outing (Fig. 25-6).
C) A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines (Fig. 25-1).
D) The Qingbian Mountains (Fig. 25-12).

Question 6

How does Poet on a Mountaintop (Fig. 25-9) 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 7

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 8

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 9

Which colors are particularly noteworthy among Ming porcelain wares, such as the fifteenth-century flask with dragons (Fig. 25-4)?

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

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

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

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

Question 12

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 13

Which of the following was a preeminent professional painter in the Ming period who produced the influential handscroll Spring Dawn in the Han Palace (Fig. 25-7)?

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

Question 14

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 15

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 16

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

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

Question 17

The symbolism of Yun Shouping's Amaranth (Fig. 25-13) shows homages to court officials from what tradition?

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

Question 18

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 19

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

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

Question 20

The Garden of the Cessation of Official Life (Fig. 25-11) 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.

Question 21

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

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

Who was Dong Qichang? Address his achievements.

Question 24

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 25

Compare and contrast A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines (Fig. 25-1) and The Qingbian Mountains (Fig. 25-12) in terms of style, form, and content.

Question 26

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

Question 27

How does Whanki Kim exemplify Western and Eastern ideals?

Question 28

Who were the painters known as the individualists?

Question 29

Compare the production of ceramics in China and in Korea. Consider the relationship of the two cultures and how each developed distinctive stylistic traditions in these works.

Question 30

How does Wu Guanzhong's Pine Spirit (Fig. 25-16) combine Western and Chinese influences?

Question 31

Dong Qichang created his Qingbian Mountains (Fig. 25-12) in what standard format of Chinese painting?

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

Question 32

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 33

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

Question 34

Discuss the rise of literati painting in Chinese art history, and describe the literati influence on furniture, architecture, and garden design. Cite examples and discuss their characteristics.

Question 35

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

Question 36

What is the Forbidden City (Fig. 25-8)? Who built it? Consider its origins, its design, and its symbolism.

Question 37

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 38

Discuss the formats of Chinese painting.

Question 39

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

Question 40

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