Deck 9: Later Asian Art

Question 1

Southern Song painting applied the concept of "sudden enlightenment" from which of the following philosophies?

A)Chan Buddhism
B)Neo-Confucianism
C)Daoism
D)Shintoism

Answer 1

A

Question 2

During the Heian period,Japan was culturally influenced by

A)China and India.
B)India and Korea.
C)China and Cambodia.
D)China and Korea.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What does the royal complex of Angkor Wat symbolize?

A)a cosmic mountain that is home to the deity and axis of the world
B)the Hindu god,Vishnu
C)the power of Emperor Suryavarman II
D)the wealth of Silk Route trade

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which was the new system of thought that developed during the Song dynasty?

A)Daoism
B)Buddhism
C)Neo-Confucianism
D)Hinduism

Question 5

Which subject was of special interest to Neo-Confucian artists?

A)portraits
B)still lifes
C)histories
D)landscapes

Question 6

Which became the most prominent religion in India during the period ofc.650-1526?

A)Islam
B)Hinduism
C)Buddhism
D)Christianity

Question 7

In Neo-Confucian thought,li is the force in the universe representing

A)object or matter.
B)principle or idea.
C)middle path.
D)great Ultimate.

Question 8

Which is a construction method used in Japan in which a large wooden sculpture is made from smaller carved blocks?

A)woodblock
B)system
C)joined-block
D)assemblage

Question 9

Which is the most important surviving example of traditional Chinese architecture?

A)the Forbidden City
B)Byodo-in
C)Angkor Wat
D)Kandariya Mahadeva temple

Question 10

Which of the following is the series of three halls in a Hindu temple?

A)shikhara
B)fusuma
C)garbhagriha
D)mandapa

Question 11

Why is Zhao Mengfu unusual?

A)He was a high Yuan official.
B)He resigned his position with the Yuan court.
C)He refused association with the Yuan dynasty.
D)He combined poetry and painting.

Question 12

Which is an extremely refined white clay made from kaolin?

A)stoneware
B)earthenware
C)porcelain
D)guan ware

Question 13

Which of the following is generally true of Chinese scholars under the Yuan dynasty?

A)They took government positions.
B)They suppressed the arts.
C)They developed the arts.
D)They educated the Yuan rulers.

Question 14

What was the purpose of the painting Jahangir and Shah Abbas by Nadir al-Zaman?

A)to memorialize the emperor
B)to enhance trade between empires
C)to show strength
D)to show the mutual respect between rulers

Question 15

Which of the following features of the Taj Mahal represents the Islamic notion of paradise?

A)the mosque
B)the tomb
C)the rest house
D)the garden

Question 16

Which of the following elements of the Guan ware vase relates most directly to Chan Buddhism?

A)controlled form
B)irregular cracks
C)lustrous off-white glaze
D)vertical format

Question 17

Although Byodo-in temple was originally a secular palace,it was designed to evoke the

A)Great Ultimate.
B)Western Paradise.
C)world mountain.
D)home of Vishnu.

Question 18

Who was the first Mughal emperor,who conquered an empire stretching from Afghanistan to Delhi?

A)Suryavarman II
B)Shah Abbas
C)Jahangir
D)Babur

Question 19

Which of the following is the knob-like architectural decoration found at the top point of a spire where earthly and cosmic worlds are thought to join?

A)axis-mundi
B)finial
C)shikara
D)mandapa

Question 20

Which is a technique in which cutout paper is pasted onto another surface?

A)gilding
B)collage
C)polychrome
D)paste-up

Question 21

Which philosophy is evident in Monk Sewing,attributed to Kao Ninga?

A)Zen Buddhism
B)Pure Land Buddhism
C)Shinto
D)Daoism

Question 22

Which of the following is the Japanese name for the popular art,usually woodcuts,that literally means "pictures of the floating world"?

A)fusuma
B)ukiyo-e
C)shikara
D)li

Question 23

What makes Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop such an excellent example of literati painting during the Ming dynasty?

Question 24

Discuss the iconography of Shiva Nataraja.

Question 25

What are the physical characteristics of the axis mundi of an Indian temple,and what is its symbolism and meaning?

Question 26

What do the cranes and pines in Kano Eitoku's Fusuma symbolize?

A)endurance
B)friendship
C)peace
D)long life

Question 27

The samurai ruled Japan during which of the following periods?

A)Heian
B)Kamakura
C)Momoyama
D)Edo

Question 28

Describe the Japanese aesthetic sensibility that has created such admiration for simple objects such as a teabowl.What characteristics should a proper teabowl have?

Question 29

What makes Chinese landscape painting fundamentally different from Western landscape painting? Explain why a viewer might be able to "wander" through a Song painting more easily than a Western painting.

Question 30

Which of the following is the world's oldest novel?

A)Beowulf
B)The Iliad
C)The Tale of Genji
D)Gilgamesh