LESSON 5; CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART

• Chinese pottery, also called CHINESE CERAMICS, objects made of clay and hardened by heat: earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain, particularly those made in China.
• GU KAIZHI was an eccentric courtier who is most famous as a painter of portraits and figure subjects and as a poet. Gu Kaizhi's art is known today from both written records and paintings.
• The Admonitions Scroll depicts a poetic text composed by an official ZHANG HUA, aimed to correcting a behavior of an empress. The Scroll carries inscriptions by later collectors including the QIANLONG EMPEROR
• Many critics consider landscape to be the highest form of Chinese painting. The time from the Five Dynasties period to the Northern Song period is known as THE GREAT AGE OF CHINESE LANDSCAPE
• The most beloved modern painter. He began his life as a poor peasant and became great master. His most famous works depict flower and small animals

  QI BASISHI
• the greatest art form of ancient China?

  BRONZE METAL WORK
• It is a hard, beautiful stone that was highly valued by the Chinese?

  JADE