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Hokusai Exhibition Article 10-14
Smithsonian Magazine (May 2011) Probing the Mysteries of the Maya
Smithsonian Magazine (September 2011) What Ails the Taj Majal?
Videos related to these chapters
PBS - Nova Cracking the Maya Code (6 episodes)
Engineering an Empire - Aztecs (5 parts)
Engineering an Empire - Ancient China (3 Parts)
Engineering an Empire - The Maya
The Story of India - BBC Documentary
What the Ancients Knew - India (Discovery Channel Documentary)
INTERACTIVE TIMELINE on DIPITY
Memory Devices...
OCEANIA:
MAMA
Masks
Ancestor Worship
Music
Alone
MAMA represents how women in the culture were very important. They were great producers of art and helped with rituals and ceremonies.
Oceania: Wooden Surfboard
Explanation: The surfboard part is a remind that this is oceania, where days change with the tide. Personally it reminds me of the Philippines where there are 8000+ islands (i think) and the number changes day by day with the tide. It is this amount of islands that serves as a reminder that many island equals many languages. The wooden part is to say how much Oceanic people used wood like with Bisj pole and ceremonial houses.
Masks Men
Ceremonial Men's houses Created
Barkcloth Beautiful
Easter Island Eagles
Ships Sitting
Tattoos There.
India:
Hinduism Have
Buddhism Breakfast
Stupa Soon
Ashoka After
Ajanta Assisting
Sculpture Sue
India: The Lion, the Wheel, the Lotus, and the Hindu
Explanation: Lion/Wheel/Lotus are symbols of buddha and Hinduism is present in India as well. It is just a way to remember what impact religion had on India.
China:
Daoism Does
Confucianism Chester
Qin Shi Huangdi Quickly
Silk Road Show
Chan Buddhism Charlie
Court paintings Cheap
Pottery Plastic?
China: "Brush in...Brush out"
Explanation: Karate kid reminds me of Chinese culture. So "brush" is to remember the literati and calligraphy.
Japan:
Haniwa Has
Shinto She
Tale of Genji Taken
Ise Shrine Ice
Buddhism Back
Triads To
Zen Zach's
Ukiyo-e Uncle?
Japan: [refer to the picture below]
Explanation: Its a cube with the words "Zen," "Tea," and "Ise" written on it. I am a visiual person so once I see that I think of "woodblock." Ise reminds me that Ise is japanese and that it is associated with Shinto. Zen is the nature relationship and Tea reminds me that the Tea ceremony is in Japan not China.
Africa:
Cave Paintings Camels
Nok Heads Never
Ile-Ife Interact
Islam In
Christianity Crowds.
Terracottas They
Rock Churches Rarely
Masks Meet.
Africa: Mud-brick Ancestors
Explanation: Most of Africa architecture was mud-brick and there was a lot of ancestor worship
Americas:
Pyramids People
Nature Never
Sacrifices See
Ball Game Bologna
Carvings Covering
Mounds Mozzarella
Ceramics Cheese
Americas: Found a twig!
Explanation: Most America art was made from materials surrounding them. This memory device plays on the idea that they made art from the local materials like the adobe for the Southwestern Indians, stone in Mesoamerica, etc. Its similar to how a boy with a knife will find a less than a foot away twig as opposed to picking up a better twig ten feet away and carve a spear
Articles:
Empress' First Portrait Restored
CA 6 Africa 1100-1980 C.E.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 6.1 - Human life, which is understood to have begun in Africa, developed over millions of years and radiated beyond the continent of Africa. The earliest African art dates to 77,000 years ago. While interpretations of this art is conjectural at best, the clarity and strength of design and expression in the work is obvious.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 6.2 - Human beliefs and interactions in Africa are instigated by the arts. African arts are active; they motivate behavior, contain and express belief and validate social organization and human relations.
ENDURING UNDERSTAND 6.3 - Use and efficacy are central to the art of Africa. African arts, though often characterized, collected and exhibited as figural sculptures and masks, are by nature meant to be performed rather than simply viewed. African arts are often described in terms of the contexts and functions with which they appear to be associated.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 6.4 - Outsiders have often characterized, collected and exhibited African arts as primitive, ethnographic, anonymous and static, when in reality Africa's interaction with the rest of the world led to dynamic intellectual and artistic traditions that sustain hundreds of cultures and almost as many languages.
CA6 Links:
Time Period Maps of Africa - Interactive
National Geographic Africa information page
Art and Life in Africa - Iowa University site
IMAGES
167. Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe. Southeartern Zimbabwe. Shona peoples. c. 1000-1400 C.E. Coursed granite blocks.
UNESCO World Heritage information
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVShn1vKV0
168. Great Mosque of Djenne. Mali. Founded c. 1200 C.E.; rebuilt 1906-1907. Adobe.
Making mud for the Great Mosque
Muslim viewpoint of the Great Mosque
3D Animation of the Great Mosque
169. Wall plaque, from Oba's palace. Edo peoples, Benin (Nigeria). 16th century C.E. Cast brass.
Article on the history of the Edo peoples
170. Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool). Ashanti peoples (south central Ghana). c. 1700 C.E. Gold over wood and cast-gold attachments.
PBS Description of the object page
Overview of the Ashanti peoples
171. Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul. Kuba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo). c. 1760-1780 C.E. Wood.
172. Power figure (Nkisi n'kondi). Kongo peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo). c. late 19th century C.E. Wood and metal.
Pat Steir's Critique of the Power Figure
173. Female (Pwo) mask. Chokwe peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Late 19th to early 20th century C.E. Wood, fiber, pigment and metal.
174. Portrait mask. (Mblo). Baule peoples (Cote d'Ivoire). Early 20th century C.E. Wood and pigment.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/319512
175. Bundu mask. Sande Society, Mende peoples (West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia). 19th and 20th century C.E. Wood, Cloth and fiber.
176. Ikenga (shrine figure). Igbo peoples (Nigeria). c. 19th to 20th century C.E. Wood.
177. Lukasa (memory board). Mbudye Society, Luba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo). c. 19th to 20th century C.E. Wood, beads and metal.
www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/214/index.html
178. Aka elephant mask. Bamileke (Cameroon, western grassfields region). c. 19th to 20th century C.E. Wood, woven raffia, cloth and beads.
179. Reliquary figure (byeri). Fang peoples (southern Cameroon). c. 19th to 20th century C.E. Wood.
Dallas Museum of Art acquisition
180. Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga). Olowe of Ise (Yoruba peoples). c. 1910-1914 C.E. Wood and pigment.
CA 7 West and Central Asia 500 B.C.E.-1980 C.E.
CA 7 West and Central Asia 500 B.C.E.-1980 C.E.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 7.1 - The arts of West and Central Asia play a key role in the history of world art, giving form to the vast cultural interchanges that have occurred in these lands that link the European and Asian peoples.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 7.2 - The religious arts of West and Central Asia are united by the traditions of the region: Buddhism and Islam.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 7.3 - Use of figural art in religious contexts varies among traditions, whereas figural art is common in secular art forms across West and Central Asia.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 7.4 - Artists of West and Central Asia excelled in the creation of particular art forms exhibiting key characteristics unique to their regions and cultures. Important forms include ceramics, metalwork, textiles, painting and calligraphy.
RESOURCE LINKS
Judaism
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/judaism-art/a/judaism-an-introduction
Christianity
Islam
Buddahism
IMAGES
181. Petra, Jordan. Buddhism Ptolemaic and Roman. c. 400 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Cut rock.
Virtual Tour
National Geographic Information Page
182. Bamiyan Buddhas, Afghanistan. Gandharan. c. 400-800 C.E. (destroyed in 2001). Cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint.
The Man who Helped Blow up the Buddha - BBC
UNESCO World Heritage Information Page
183. The Kaaba. Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Islamic. Pre-Islamic monument; rededicated by Muhammad in 631-632 C.E.; multiple renovations. Granite masonry, covered with silk curtain and calligraphy in gold and silver-wrapped thread.
National Geographic Documentary
184. Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple. Lhasa, Tibet. Yarlung Dynasty. Believed to have been brought to Tibet in 641 C.E. Gilt metals with semiprecious stones, pearls and paint; various offerings.
185. Dome of the Rock. Jerusalem, Palestine. Islamic, Umayyad. 691-692 C.E., with multiple renovations. Stone masonry and wooden roof decorated with glazed ceramic tile, mosaics and gilt aluminum and bronze dome.
186. Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh). Isfahan, Iran. Islamic, Persian: Seljuk, Il-Khanid, Timurid and Safavid Dynasties. c. 700 C.E.; additions and restorations in the 14th, 18th and 20th centuries C.E. Stone, brick, wood, plaster and glazed ceramic tile.
UNESCO World Heritage information page
187. Folio from a Qur'an. Arab, North Africa, or Near East. Abbasid. c. eighth to ninth century C.E. Ink, color and gold on parchment.
Collection of articles over the Art and Architecture of Islam
188. Basin (Baptistere de St. Louis). Muhammad ibn al-Zain. c. 1320-1340 C.E. Brass inlaid with gold and silver.
learner.org/courses/globalart/work/65/index.html
189. Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama. Islanic; Persian, Il'Khanid. c. 1330-1340 C.E. Ink and opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper.
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ilkh/hd_ilkh.htm
190. The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama. Sultan Muhammad. c. 1522-1525 C.E. Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shnm/hd_shnm.htm
191. The Ardabil Carpet. Maqsud of Kashan. 1539-1540 C.E. Silk and wool.
www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-ardabil-carpet
Content Area 8 South, East and Southeast Asia 300 B.C.E.-1980 C.E.
Content Area 8 South, East and Southeast Asia 300 B.C.E.-1980 C.E.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 8.1 - The arts of South, East and Southeast Asia represent some of the world's oldest, most diverse and most sophisticated visual traditions.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 8.2 - Many of the world's great religious and philosophic traditions developed in South and East Asia. Extensive traditions of distinctive religious art forms developed in this region to support the beliefs and practices of these religions.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 8.3 - South, East and Southeast Asia developed many artistic and architectural traditions that are deeply rooted in Asian aesthetics and cultural practices.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 8..4 - Asian art was and is global. The cultures of South, East and Southeast Asia were interconnected through trade and politics and were also in contact with West Asia and Europe throughout history.
RESOURCE LINKS
India
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/south-east-se-asia/india-art/a/beliefs-of-hinduism
www.culturalindia.net/indian-history/
History of India Part 2 BBC
China
Japan
Cambodia
Korea
Indonesia
IMAGES
192. Great Stupa at Sanchi. Madhya Pradesh, India. Buddhist; Maurya, late Sunga Dynasty. c. 300 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone on dome.
education.asianart.org/explore-resources/background-information/stupa
193. Terra cotta warriors from mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China. Qin Dynasty. c. 221-209 B.C.E. Painted terra cotta.
www.chinahighlights.com/xian/terracotta-army/
National Geographic information page
194. Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui). Han Dynasty, China. c. 180 B.C.E. Painted silk.
195. Longmen caves. Luoyang, China. Tang Dynasty. 493-1127 C.E. Limestone.
UNESCO World Heritage information
education.asianart.org/explore-resources/background-information/buddhist-cave-shrines-longmen
196. Gold and jade crown. Three Kingdoms Period. Silla Kingdom, Korea. Fifth to sixth century C.E. Metalwork.
197. Todai-ji. Nara, Japan. Various artists, including sculptors Unkei and Keikei, as well as the Kei School. 743 C.E.; rebuilt c. 1700. Bronze and wood (sculpture); wood with ceramic tile roofing (architecture).
198. Borobudur Temple. Central Java, Indonesia. Sailendra Dynasty. c. 750-842 C.E. Volcanic-stone masonry.
199. Angkor, the temple of Angkor Wat, and the city of Angkor Thom, Cambodia. Hindu, Angkor Dynasty. c. 800-1400 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone.
UNESCO World Heritage Information Page
200. Lakshmana temple, Khajuraho, Chhatarpur District, Madhya Pradesh, India, dedicated 954 C.E. (Chandella period), sandstone.
201. Travelers among Mountains and Streams. Fan Kuan. c. 1000 C.E. Ink and colors on silk.
202. Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja). Hindu; India (Tamil Nadu), Chola Dynasty. C. 11th century C.E. Cast bronze.
203. NIght Attack on the Sanjo Palace. Kamakura Period, Japan. c. 1250-1300 C.E. Handscroll (ink and color on paper).
www.bowdoin.edu/~ktravers/projects/heijiscroll/intro.html
204. The Vases of David. Yuan Dynasty, China. 1351 C.E. White porcelain with cobalt-blue underglaze.
www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/nEO59KLxRoGD4hW9LD-L_g
205. Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417-1475) Imperial Bureau of Painting. c. 15th century C.E. Hanging scroll (ink and color on silk).
206. Forbidden City. Bejing, China. Ming Dynasty. 15th century C.E. and later. Stone masonry, marble, brick, wood and ceramic tile.
UNESCO World Heritage Information Page
207. Ryoan-ji. Kyoto, Japan. Muromachi Period, Japan. c. 1480 C.E.; current design most likely dates to the 18th century. Rock garden.
208. Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings. Bichitr. C. 1620 C.E. Watercolor, gold and ink on paper.
www.asia.si.edu/explore/worlds-within-worlds/zoom/jahangir-preferring-sufi-shaykh-to-kings.asp
209. Taj Mahal. Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Masons, marble workers, mosaicists and decorators working under the supervision of Ustad Ahmad Lahori, architect of the emperor. 1632-1653 C.E. Stone masonry and marble with marble with inlay of precious and semiprecious stones; gardens.
210. White and Red Plum Blossoms. Ogata Korin. c. 1710-1716 C.E. Ink, watercolor and gold leaf on paper.
211. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Katsushika Hokusai. 1830-1833 C.E. Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper.
212. Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan. Artist unknown; based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua. c. 1969 C.E. Color lithograph.
Content Area 9 The Pacific 700-1980 C.E.
Content Area 9 The Pacific 700-1980 C.E.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 9.1 - The arts of the Pacific vary by virtue of ecological situations, social structures and impact of external influences, such as commerce, colonialism and missionary activity. Created in a variety of media, Pacific arts are distinguished by the virtuosity with which materials are used and presented.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 9.2 - The sea is ubiquitous as a theme of Pacific art and as a presence in the daily lives of a large portion of Oceania, as the sea both connects and separates the lands and peoples of the Pacific.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 9.3 - The arts of the Pacific are expressions of beliefs, social relations, essential truths and compendia of information held by designated members of society. Pacific arts are objects, acts and events that are forces in social life.
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING 9.4 - Pacific arts are performed (danced, sung, recited, displayed) in an array of colors, scents, textures and movements that enact narratives and proclaim primordial truths. Belief in the use of costumes, cosmetics and constructions assembled to enact epics of human history and experience is central to the creation of and participation in Pacific arts.
RESOURCE LINKS
Australian Timeline from Prehistory to Present Day
IMAGES
213. Nan Madol. Pohnpei, Micronesia. Saudeleur Dynasty. c. 700-1600 C.E. Basalt boulders and prismatic columns.
Masao Hadley: the Worship of Nan Madol
214. Moai on platform (ahu). Rapa Nui (Easter Island). c. 1100-1600 C.E. Volcanie tuff figures on basalt base.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/civilization/giants.html
News Story about the bodies of the Moai
215. 'Ahu 'ula (feather cape). Hawaiian. Late 18th century C.E. Feathers and fiber.
News story about the return of the cape in native language
Documentary of the return of the cape in English
216. Staff god. Rarotonga, Cook Islands, central Polynesia. Late 18th to early 19th century C.E. Wood, tape, fiber and feather.
217. Female deity. Nukuoro, Micronesia. c. 18th to 19th century C.E. Wood.
218. Buk (mask). Torres Strait. Mid- to late 19th century C.E. Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers and shell.
Documentary about Torres Strait
219. Hiapo (tapa). Niue. c. 1850-1900 C.E. Tape or bark cloth, freehand painting.
Short video demonstration about the making of bark cloth
220. Tamati Waka Nene, Gottfried Lindauer. 1890 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Benjamin Pittman on Tamati Waka Nene - Part 1
Benjamin Pittman on Tamati Waka Nene - Part 2
Benjamin Pittman on Tamati Waka Nene - Part 3
221. Navigation chart. Marshall Islands, Micronesia. 19th to early 20th century C.E. Wood and fiber.
Article about how to make a navigation chart
222. Malagan display and mask. New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. c. 20th century C.E. Wood, pigment, fiber and shell.
223. Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II. Fiji, Polynesia. 1953 C.E. Multimedia performance (costume; cosmetics, including scent; chant; movement; and pandanus fiber/hibicus fiber mats), photographic documentation.
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