Deck 33: China and Korea, 1279 to 1980

Question 1

Zhu Yuanzhong established the Ming Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor. From which of the following groups of people did Zhu Yuanzhong share kinship?

A) Mongols
B) Huns
C) native Chinese
D) Manchurians

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following artists was condemned by Chinese history for serving in the Yuan administration?

A) Guan Daosheng
B) Zhao Mengfu
C) Wu Shen
D) Huang Gongwang

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The Noon Gate in the Forbidden City has five portals. Only the emperor can walk through the center portal. The next two portals immediately to the left and right of the center portal are reserved for the imperial family and high officials. The final two portals provide passage for everyone else. Which of the following ritual does this gateway describe?

A) a Ming Dynasty ritual
B) a Tang Dynasty ritual
C) an imperial court ritual
D) a ritual designed by Zhu Yuanzhong

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following garden designs would not conform to the Chinese aesthetic?

A) geometric design of flowers
B) uncultivated irregularities
C) contrived visual surprises
D) reflecting pools with trees and flowers

Question 5

Chinese gardens encourage the viewer to wander and ponder. The viewer was to look with a meditative eye at the arrangements of natural and artificial elements. Which of the following elements would appear in Chinese garden design?

A) fantastic rockwork
B) geometric designs
C) controlled trimming
D) terraced arrangements

Question 6

The Ming bureaucracy allowed China to be overrun by this group of invaders who then established the Qing Dynasty. Which of the following invaders is that group?

A) Manchus
B) Mongols
C) native Chinese
D) Han

Question 7

China is credited with the invention of which of the following?

A) clay
B) terracotta
C) porcelain
D) earthenware

Question 8

The work of the contemporary Korean artist, Song Su-Nam has been likened to which of the following American painters?

A) Jackson Pollock
B) Morris Louis
C) Mark Rothko
D) Barnett Newman

Question 9

Marco Polo's travels in China during the Yuan Dynasty resulted from which of the following?

A) increased trade between Europe and China
B) wanderlust of Marco Polo
C) invitation issued from Kublai Khan
D) shipwreck along the east coast

Question 10

During the Qing Dynasty what European group was invited to the imperial court?

A) East India Company members
B) French bibliographers
C) Dutch archaeologists
D) Jesuit missionaries

Question 11

Which of the following is a characteristic of literati painting?

A) polished example of the court style
B) follows the most current trends in painting style
C) appeals to a wide audience
D) personal conversation in pictures and words

Question 12

The Korean artist Chong Son was a great admirer of the Chinese Southern School of painting. Which of the following would describe the work of Chong Son?

A) controlled brush strokes
B) rigidly organized
C) expressive
D) precise

Question 13

The professional painter for the Ming court served to promote the ideology of the dynasty. Which of the following painting types would support that role?

A) bamboo painting
B) landscape painting
C) imperial family portraits
D) paintings of foreign envoys

Question 14

Which of the following is the preferred medium for East Asian literati?

A) oil on paper
B) oil on canvas
C) ink on paper
D) watercolor

Question 15

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is based on the wars fought during the Period of Disunity. Guan Yu, a famed general of the Wei dynasty, becomes a fictional hero in the novel which was very popular during the Ming period. Which of the following attributes would support the popularity of this novel during the Ming Dynasty?

A) He initiated his own dynasty.
B) He assassinated his emperor.
C) His loyalty to his emperor.
D) He colluded with the Mongols.

Question 16

A painting style that was a freer more expressive style describes which of the following schools?

A) Northern School
B) Southern School
C) Court School
D) Monastery School

Question 17

Which of the following buildings was the focus of the north-south axis of the Forbidden City?

A) Noon Gate
B) Pavilion of cheerful Melodies
C) Hall of Preserved Elegance
D) Hall of Supreme Harmony

Question 18

Many of the Chinese loyal to the former emperor refused to serve the new emperor during the Yuan period. Which of the following could be a reason for this rejection?

A) not enough prestige attached to the new positions
B) fearful of reprisals from the Yuan if they served
C) the new overlords were foreigners therefore unacceptable
D) public service was no longer satisfying

Question 19

During the Ming Dynasty, which of the following was considered the most prestigious painting style?

A) imperial court portraits
B) history paintings
C) bamboo paintings
D) landscape painting

Question 20

Which of the following might suggest the donor's high status from the Yuan Temple vase?

A) phoenix/dragon motif
B) holly leaves
C) laurel flowers
D) mushrooms

Question 21

What is another name commonly used for the former Imperial Palace Compound?

A) Forbidden City
B) Mao's Paradise
C) Qin Palace
D) Palace of Delight

Question 22

How does porcelain reflect Chinese art?

Question 23

Chinese garden design is akin to ____.

A) composing a poem
B) rigorous exercise
C) common work
D) painting a political event

Question 24

The last Chinese native dynasty was which of the following?

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

Question 25

A dragon may represent the yang, the principle characterized by which of the following?

A) active masculine energy
B) eternal change
C) harmonious disorder
D) passive feminine energy

Question 26

Who codified the distinction between a scholar-amateur and an academic-professional?

A) Dai Jin
B) Shitao
C) Chong Son
D) Don Qichang

Question 27

During which Chinese dynasty were paintings of bamboo favored?

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

Question 28

The People's Republic of China was established in ____?

A) 1849
B) 1917
C) 1945
D) 1949

Question 29

The phoenix may represent the ying, the principle characterized by which of the following?

A) active masculine energy
B) eternal change
C) harmonious disorder
D) passive feminine energy

Question 30

Which of the following artists attached an explanatory inscription to his scroll indicating the sequence of its creation?

A) Huang Gongwang
B) Wu Zhen
C) Xu Bing
D) Su Dongpo

Question 31

Which of the following dynasties designed the core of the imperial palace in the Forbidden City?

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

Question 32

How does the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City represent the emperor?

Question 33

The Ming architecture of Beijing follows the traditional Chinese construction technique. Which of the following identifies that traditional construction technique?

A) bracketing system
B) trabeated system
C) arcuated system
D) timber-framing system

Question 34

The Qing Dynasty was overthrown in which year?

A) 1811
B) 1911
C) 1918
D) 1921

Question 35

During the Yuan Dynasty why was bamboo used to symbolize a Chinese gentleman?

Question 36

The artist Shen Zhou painted Lofty Mount Lu as a tribute to his teacher. He indicated the size of the mountain by sketching a small figure at the bottom. Which of the following would define his style?

A) the colorful and expressive style of the Eastern School
B) the precise and academic style of the Northern School
C) the free and expressive style of the Southern School
D) the linear and academic style of the Western School

Question 37

In his painting Kumgang Mountains, the Korean Choson Dynasty artist Chong Son evoked an actual scene. Which of the following describes this type of painting?

A) special landscape painting
B) true mountain painting
C) true view painting
D) true mountain landscape painting

Question 38

Xu Bing, a contemporary Chinese artist, has created a work with an enormous number of woodblock prints. Which of the following would describe this work?

A) It is conventional.
B) It imitates social realism.
C) It is no hymn to tradition.
D) It follows the Northern School style.

Question 39

How do Chinese gardens speak to the spirit of Chinese landscape painting?

Question 40

Which of the following generals repelled the Chinese attempt to control northeastern Korea during the Ming Dynasty?

A) General Guan Yu
B) General Yi Song-gye
C) General Sun Tzu
D) General Kim-Jong-il

Question 41

How does Shen Zhou express the virtue and character of his teacher in Loft Mount Lu?

Question 42

Contrast the development of the decorative arts during the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 43

How does the layout of the Forbidden City relate to the emperor?

Question 44

What is the function of a Chinese garden?

Question 45

What was the Orchard Factory?

Question 46

Contrast Qing visual arts with the visual arts of the People's Republic of China. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 47

Describe the impact the Mongol invasion had on China. Consider the political and social implications, and their ramifications for the subsequent visual arts. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 48

How does the work of the Korean artist Song Su-Nam reflect Abstract Expressionism?

Question 49

How does Social Realism echo the visual vocabulary of the People's Republic of China?

Question 50

What group invaded China in the fourteenth century, and what influence did their invasion have on the art?

Question 51

How do bamboo paintings complement calligraphy?

Question 52

The painting Auspicious Objects by Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining) is a birthday tribute to the emperor. What elements in this work make it a birthday tribute?

Question 53

How did the audience of the literati respond to paintings created by the literati?

Question 54

Why did the Ming court establish workshops?

Question 55

Briefly describe China and the imperial administration during the Yuan period.

Question 56

How do the Chinese symbols of the dragon and phoenix represent status?

Question 57

How did Chong Son of the Choson Dynasty differ from his Chinese counterpart in his painting style?

Question 58

When does the modern period begin for Korea?

Question 59

Describe the impact the Manchu invasion had on China. Consider the political and social implications, and their ramifications for the visual arts. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 60

Describe the impact of the twentieth century on Chinese painting. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 61

Why was it significant that when this work was first exhibited it was anonymous?

Question 62

Describe the effect of the Choson Dynasty on twentieth century Korean art. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 63

How does this reflect Chinese prosperity?

Question 64

How does this illustrate the emperor?

Question 65

Describe the architecture of the Forbidden City. How does it reflect the emperor? Use examples to support your essay

Question 66

How does this represent the power of the emperor?

Question 67

What is the artist attempting in this work?

Question 68

Contrast Qing painting with Joseon Dynasty painting. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 69

Contrast Yuan painting with Qing painting. Consider the political climate of both periods. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 70

Explain the development of painting in later China, noting the materials and techniques used as well as the features distinguishing Chinese landscape painting. Use examples to support your essay.

Question 71

What is the artist attempting to illustrate?

Question 72

How does this painting illustrate the literati style?

Question 73

How was the work entitled Guan Yu Captures General Pang De significant to the Ming Dynasty?

Question 74

How does this garden reflect Ming landscape?