Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

detail shown in FIG. 27-4,the painter built up the textured moun- tains with richly layered brush strokes, at times interweaving ...

Ming Dynasty In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhong led a popular uprising that drove the last Mongol emperor from Beijing. After expelling the ...

F rom ancient times the Chinese used lacquer to cover wood. Lacquer is produced from the sap of the Asiatic sumac tree, native t ...

or of laying out terraces, flower beds, and avenues in geometric fashion, as was the case in many other cultures (compare, for e ...

726 Chapter 27 CHINA AND KOREA AFTER 1279 M any Chinese paintings (FIGS. 7-21, 7-24, 27-3,and 27-11 to 27-13) bear inscriptions, ...

SHEN ZHOUThe work of Shang Xi and other professional court painters, designed to promote the official Ming ideology, differs sha ...

WEN SHULandscape painting was the most prestigious artistic subject in Ming China, and it was the preferred theme of male litera ...

sive force began to appear. A prominent painter in this mode was Shitao(Daoji,1642–1707), a descendant of the Ming imperial fam- ...

center of the dish are Fu, Lu, and Shou, the three celestial star gods of happiness, success, and longevity. The cranes and spot ...

Choson Dynasty At the time the Yuan overthrew the Song dynasty in China, the Ko- ryo dynasty (918–1392), which had ruled Korea s ...

CHONG SONOver the long course of the Choson dynasty, Ko- rean painters worked in many different modes and treated the same wide ...

YUAN DYNASTY, 1279–1368 ❚The Mongols invaded northern China in 1210 and defeated the last Song emperor in 1279. Under the first ...

28-1Ogata Korin,Red Plum Blossoms,Edo period, ca. 1710–1716. Detail of one of a pair of two-panel folding screens (FIG. I-12). I ...

E arly Japanese cultural history (see Chapter 8) reveals the dialogue that occurred between the Japa - nese islands and continen ...

responsibility. For this reason, Zen held a special attraction for the upper echelons of samurai, whose behavioral codes placed ...

stood out not only as religious institutions but also as centers of sec- ular culture, where people could study Chinese art, lit ...

KANO MOTONOBUThe opposite pole of Muromachi painting style is represented by the Kano School, which by the 17th century had be- ...

tious castles he helped decorate—not surprising in an era marked by power struggles. However, a painting of Chinese lions on a s ...

dark and pale—present a grove of great pines shrouded in mist. His trees emerge from and recede into the heavy atmosphere, as if ...

period, admiration of the technical brilliance of Chinese objects had begun to give way to ever greater appreciation of the virt ...