Luohan Earthenware Analysis

Nyoirin Kannon from the Heian Period in Japan, is a three and a half foot tall wooden sculpture

he Harvester’s Vase, a fascinating 3500 year old stone sculpture from the Aegean Bronze Age was a product of cultural interactions between the Minoans and the outside world. The vase is “unprecedented” in ancient art history due in part to the animated facial features and accurate human anatomy, thanks to the Minoans long history in making art and their mercantile economy. While Mycenaeans and Hellenic Greeks are more well-known and studied, Minoans played a huge in part in laying the foundations of Western art. Discovered in ruins of the Hagia Triada on the island of Crete. The Harvester’s vase was created around 1500 to 1450 BC, the vase is unique in that it is one of the few well preserved artifacts of the Minoan Kamares where they have

story is that according to a Chinese myth there were two brothers and one was very

The Sikyatki style of Hopi pottery was the introduction of artistic quality to the yellow pottery of the Anasazi period. From 1400-1600 A.D., the Sikyatki Polychrome style was described as "flamboyance of decoration" on the yellow pottery now being made (Bartlett 6). The geometric designs of the Anasazi period were abandoned for the Sikyatki use of life-form designs and nature designs. These included mammals, birds, reptiles, as well as rain clouds, stars, and sun symbols.

However, this does not mean that the previously mentioned wabi-sabi aesthetic disappeared. For example, the town of Shigaraki in Shiga prefecture and Bizen city in Okayama prefecture are just two of the oldest kilns that produced wood-fired stoneware beginning from the end of the twelfth century. These two locations, as well as some others, produced utilitarian vessels of the wabi-sabi aesthetic long before the tea ceremony even came to popularize it. However, these two are different in that Shigaraki ware is characterized by a “fiery orange color and a speckled, bumpy surface caused by the feldspar in the clay” whereas Bizen ware is known for its “deep reddish to blackish brown color” (Willmann 2011). Regardless, these kilns produced the wabi-sabi aesthetic before the rise in tea ceremony, continued it during the popularization of porcelain, and still continues to make such work today. The following pictures are examples of each of the two

Describe the important chemistry of early earth and how this may have given rise to life forms.

“The Last Judgement” was a sculpture founded in the Cathedral of St. Lazarus in Autun, France. The sculpture was built around 1130-46, by Gislebertus who was a French sculptor. The material used in this sculpture was stone. (Khan academy)

Knowing the date it was painted and where it was painted is important as the vase on its own cannot help us identify and understand its historical context. We can assume that at this time the traditional pattern-based technique to vase painting had not yet kicked in, or it was not well recognized in China. However, the lack of the artist's name, we cannot determine when the painter was active and the possible reason he/she did not employ certain forms. Its form is a blank slate without any decorations except the black dripping glaze (earthenware with a black glaze). This is an 8th-century piece as most pottery during this period were increasingly round-faced and rotund, reflecting a change from the 7th-century

sculpture in their honor. Created during the Tang Dynasty in 742 by an unknown artist in

Ritual Bronzes gained in popularity and importance during the Shang and Zhou dynasties (which became known as the Bronze Age in China), when bronze technology and metalworking became more complex. Bronze cups and other vessels were used for ritual sacrifices and ceremonies. Ritual bronzes during the Shang dynasty grew more intricate and larger. During the Zhou dynasty, the taotie (animal mask) motifs that were so prevalent during the Shang dynasty faded in favor of other decorations such as spikes. Ritual bronzes also came to be used to store texts and to be passed down to later

I went to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts on Stanford Campus on 2/28/13. I saw a lot of sculptures and vases there. They are very beautiful and interested. The most interested one I think was Kleophon Painter, “Volute Krater”, ca. 430 BCE, Greece, red-figure terra cotta vase, size 26’ ¾” * 19’ *19’. Hazel D. Hansen Fund, 12, 1972 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. This vase is located in the Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center from the classical period between 479-323 BCE in Greece. The Kleophon Painter is an anonymous Athenian vase painter in red figure style. The name he is named because of a youth named “Kleophon”. He is also good at Achilles Painter; a number of “black figure” works in the mid-to-late 5th

They were found on roads to where they would stand, also in quarries where they were mined. I thought it was interesting that many people believe the works literally just dropped their tools where they were and stop working or left. These massive stone statues stood as tall as 33 feet and weighed up to 82 tons. However, some of the abandon ones that were under construct that were found stood up to 65 feet tall and weighed up to 270 tons. The statues even stood on enormous platforms up to 500 feet long and 10 feet high weighing up to 10 tons.Another extremely astonishing thing I liked was that the statues were transported many miles with no draft animals with just manpower, and no wheels. Another extremely interesting thing was that in 1770 there were over 200 statues standing and by 1864 the islanders pulled all of them

The Han dynasty (25-220 CE) exhibit outside in the corridor demonstrated remarkable uniformity. Common pottery such as models of houses and farm structures, were created as funerary objects for burials. The Han period has deeply shaped and cast its roots in contemporary burial rituals. Today,

Shinos are traditional Japanese glazes that have high feldspar and clay content, and can produce a range of color and texture depending highly on application and firing. The main colorant in shino glazes are the iron oxide impurities contained in various clays.

The Ritual Wine Jar and Ritual Wine Container, on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Weber Galleries of Early Chinese Art, were believed to have been a part of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, respectively. The Shang dynasty, whose countless rulers sought great advancements in the arts and economy, is thought to have existed from 1600 BCE to around 1046 BCE. However, with the fall of the Shang dynasty came the rise of the Zhou dynasty existing from 1046-256 BCE.