china art names
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- Di
- high god
- Qingming
- springtime Clear Brightness Festival, verneration of ancestors
- Yangshao
- culture in early Shaanxi known for earthenware made from coils
- Qin Shi Huangdi
- First Emperor of Qin, had the huge terracotta army in his tomb
- bi
- Jade disks
- cong
- jade long, squared tubes
- fu hao
- wife of Shang kings Wu Ding, her tomb is known for luxury objects like jade
- ding
- bronze tripod vessel
- fang yi
- bronze square vessel
- gong
- bronze animal vessel
- taotie
- common motif on Shang bronze vessels, monster with horns and claws
- jiaguwen
- script on oracle bones
- jinwen
- script on bronze vessels used in ancient burials
- dazhuan
- large seal script, older version
- seal script
- 1200 B.C.,Qin period, rounded edges, curved forms, helped to unify china, later used for art and symbolic/formal stuff
- xiaozhuan
- small seal script
- Cai Yong
- Han scholar who copied classical texts (that survived the Qin) onto stone in the Imperial Academy
- Wenda Gu
- Chinese artist who studied carving characters in Xi'an
- lishu
- clerical script, Han, used for records and general documents
- kaishu
- regular script, 200-400 created, standard script
- xin shu
- cursive running script
- caoshu
- cursive draft script
- printing
- developed in the 8th century
- oldest printed picture and text
- Diamond Sutra, long hand scroll
- Wang Xizhi
- Jin, most important calligrapher, Orchid Pavilion Preface
- Wang Xianzhi
- son of Wang Xizhi, important calligrapher
- Wei Shuo, Lady Wei
- elite woman, calligrapher, Wang Xizhi's teacher
- Guan Daosheng
- Yuan period, first woman artist to get famous, landscapes and text, married to another artist Zhao Mengfu (song imperial family, served in the yuan court)
- Zhang Yanyuan
- Tang writer, artist, Lidai minghua ji (Records of Famous Paintings of all the Dynasties)
- Li Bai
- Tang poet
- Fan Kuan
- painter northern song
- Guo Xi
- Song painter, Shanshuixun (Advice on Landscape Painting)
- Su Dongpo
- Song dynasty poet and essayist
- Shen Zhou
- Ming, founded the informal school of landscape painters called the Wu School
- Dai Jin
- dismissed from the Ming court for an infraction, founded the Zhe School of landscape painters