1. Artist: n/a
Title: China and Korea
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2. Artist: n/a
Title: Art and Its Context: Chinese Characters
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Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Chinese characters: Ancient pictographs, and ideographs - Modern, ideographs- pronunciation shifted in late 20th century

3. Artist: n/a
Title: Technique: Formats of Chinese Painting
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4. Artist: n/a
Title: Elements of Architecture: Pagodas- holds figures of the Buddha on every level
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Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Early stupa, later stupa, watchflower, stone pagoda, wooden pagoda

5. Image Artist: n/a
Title: The Forbidden City. View from the southwest
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Date: Mostly Ming dynasty
Source/Museum: Now the Palace Museum, Beijing

6. Image Artist: n/a
Title: The Forbidden City. View from the southwest/ with picture of Mao
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Date: Mostly Ming dynasty
Source/Museum: Now the Palace Museum, Beijing

7. Image 206 Hall of Supreme Harmony- largest building within the complex

8. Image 206 plan of the Forbidden City

9. Image 194 Funeral Banner of Lady Dai https://www. khanacademy
This is a view into the funeral arrangements and beliefs of the Han Dynasty BCE cm long
Found with 100 objects well preserved. Was found with several coffins. This covered one. Yin symbols on left, yang symbols on the right.
Top is Heaven- guarded by officers. Moon is at the left ( Yin); legend of the 10 suns is at the right ( Yang). Middle area is Lady Dai
About to journey to the Heavens with walking stick and her servants, dragons circle through a bi ( symbol of the heavens). Her mourners below serve a meal. At the bottom is the underworld- dragons, turtles, fish ( underwater animals) and tomb gaurdians.

10. 5 ft tall and weighed 75 lbs.

11. Circular bi discs found in neolithic burial sites in China, circa 3000 B.C.E. The jade objects represent Heaven and in ritual were laid along limbs of the deceased. Set of four in shades of cream brown, gray, and ochre. Disk sizes: 7 1/2", 9 3/4", 11", 11 1/2". All in excellent condition.
Often made from jade

12. Image 201 Fan Kuan. Travelers Among Mountains and Streams c
Image 201 Fan Kuan. Travelers Among Mountains and Streams c ink on silk- Song Dynasty
Doaist philosophy
3 layers to this painting. Isolation of the people. Relationship of the people to the landscape.Various brushstrokes to create texture.
Long waterfall accents the mountain. People in the midground.
Worked in isolation- hermit– seclusion of the Literati

13. Signature

14. Bassin d’ Argenteuil
Claude Monet
1872
Oil on Canvas
500x 334 cm

15. Ma Yuan, Scholar Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1200
Song Dynasty
Like most Song academy painters, Ma Yuan was almost forgotten during later periods, but his work nevertheless inspired both Chinese artists of the Zhe School, as well as the great early Japanese painters— His placement is contemplative and asymmetrical.

16. Artist: ShiTao
Title: Man in House Beneath a cliff
Medium: Ink and color on paper
Size: 9½ X 11" (24.1 X 28 cm)
Date: Qing dynasty, c. 1700
Source/Museum: One leaf from An Album of Landscapes. / Collection C. C. Wang family
Worked in an abstract style. Almost lost his life when the Moghuls took over China. Went into the Monastery.
Influenced by QiChang. Painted series of “ugly dots”.

17. Artist: Wu Guanzhong
Title: Pine Spirit
Medium: Ink and color on paper
Size: 2'3⅝" X 5'3½" (0.70 X 1.61 m)
Date: 1984
Source/Museum: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence. Gift of the E. Rhodes and Leonard B. Carpenter Foundation
1980’s leader in semi abstract style

18. Image 205 Portrait of Sin Sukju 1417-1475
Ink and color on Silk
Korean Prime Minister and soldier
Clouds and wild goose is the insignia of the under-grade officer.
Korean portraits signified the worth of the individual to the state ( Confucianism) . Repainted when he died. Western painting techniques helped to paint the face in a likeness. Might have been painted by several masters- master of the drapery etc.

19. Image 212 Chairman Mao En Route to Anyuan, based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua
1969- color lithography
Cultural Revolution- painted as propaganda- high art was dismissed and artists killed or worked in farms.
Poster with vivid colors, anonymous work sold to everyone.. Art as politics.
Mao on his way to Anyuan to lead a miner’s strike from when people began to support Communism. 900,000,000 copies made.
Social realism style copied the Soviet Union, meant to make Mao popular- adaptation of traditional Chinese landscape work.

20. Qin Shi Huanggi Terracotta Army xian China pit standardized money, measurements and language-began the Great Wall– rivers of mercury in the underground palace
1st Dynasty
Found in 1974

21. Sima Qian, a great historian who wrote in early Han dynasty, offered archeologists great insight on the mausoleum's construction. We learned from him that the tomb is huge. The coffin of Emperor Qin Shi Huang was cast in bronze. Underground Palace was gem-studded replica of imperial housing above ground. Moreover, booby traps with automatic-shooting arrows were installed to deter would-be tomb robbers. Heaven and earth were represented in the central chamber of the tomb. Ceiling shaped into sun, moon and stars by inlaying pearls and gems symbolizes the sky and the ground was an accumulation point of rivers, lakes and seas, like Yellow River and Yangtze River, which stands for the earth. It is said that the underground palace was brightly lit by whale oil lamps for eternity. Nowadays, the records in this book have been definitely proved right by archaeological findings and the underground palace of the tomb is presumably well preserved.

22. Artist: n/a
Title: Soldiers
Medium: Earthenware
Size: life-size
Date: Qin dynasty, c. 210 BCE
Source/Museum: From the mausoleum of Emperor Shihuangdi, Lintong, Shaanxi
Found by peasants in l figures facing east, ready for battle.

23. Single Soldier and horse
Tomb of Shi Huangdi 210BCE
Qin Dynasty
Daoism- the Individual behind the mass

24. Image 195 Longmen Caves- 493- 1127- Buddha is 55 feet tall
Tang Dynasty, Luoyang China
Vairocana ( international) Buddha with Boddhistavas, attendants and guardians-The steep limestone cliffs extend for almost a mile and contain approximately 110,000 Buddhist stone statues, 60 stupas (hemispherical structures containing Buddhist relics) and 2,800 inscriptions carved on steles (vertical stone markers).

25. Image 195 Longmen Caves

26. Image 195 Detail of Longmen Caves
Vajrapani- wielder of the thunderbolt

28. Image 196- Gold and Jade Crown 5th century Korea- Silla Kingdom- crowns made the Chinese jealous- used Shamanism ( wise man) – used in a burial
Trees and antlers- remind of the Eurasian connection to reindeer
evokes The sacred Tree of the World- which acts as the axis mundi- connecting heaven and earth ( prior to Buddhism here)
Jade ornaments are the gogok representing fruit and reproduction

29. Image 204-- The David Vases 1351 White Porcelain with blue underglaze
Originally with an incense burner for an altar; inscription; blue glaze came from Iran, modeled after bronzes, elephant handles, neck and foot vegetation, chinese dragons ( eastern protectors) in a sea of clouds where they live
Name after a white English man who collected them
 “Pax Mongolica”- established by the Kublai Khan