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Gardner's Art through the Ages,
Concise Edition by Fred Kleiner
Chapter Seventeen
China and Korea
Prepared by
Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Randal Wallace
University of North Texas
China
Dates and Places:
• 1600BCE to present
• Mainland China
People:
• Political dynasties
• Lavish burials
• Daoism,
Confucianism,
Buddhism
• Bureaucratic
administration
YE YUSHAN and others, Rent
Collection Courtyard, 1965.
Fig. 17-19
China
Themes:
• Religious themes
• Animals
• Portraits, narratives
• Landscape
Forms:
• Non-illusionistic
• Idealized figures
• Hierarchy of scale
• Shifting perspective
WU ZHEN, Stalks of Bamboo by a
Rock, Yuan dynasty, 1347. Fig. 17-1.
China
Example:
• Shang Dynasty
• Bronze libation vessel
• Intricate surface
design, linear patterns
suggest forms
• Abstract composite
creatures
• Burial item, ritual
function
Guang, Anyang, Shang dynasty, 12th
or 11th century BCE. Fig. 17-2.
China
Example:
• Qin Dynasty
• Painted terracotta
army for emperor’s
burial
• Outfitting afterlife
• Body parts from
molds, but
individualized by
assembly and hand
sculpting
Army of the First Emperor of Qin,
Lintong, Qin dynasty, ca. 210 BCE.
Fig. 17-3.
China
Example:
• Tang Dynasty
• Buddhism introduced
through trade,
missionaries
• Cave complexes
• Hierarchy of scale
• Buddha, monks,
bodhisattvas
• Monumental simplicity
Vairocana Buddha, disciples, and
bodhisattvas, Longmen Caves,
Luoyang, Tang dynasty, completed
675. Fig. 17-6.
China
Example:
• Tang Dynasty
• Scroll painting
• Golden age of figure
painting in China
• Exemplars of morality
and political virtue
• Hierarchy of scale
• Some shading to
suggest volume
Attributed to YAN LIBEN,
Emperor Xuan and Attendants,
The Thirteen Emperors,
Tang dynasty, ca. 650. Fig. 17-8.
China
FAN KUAN, Travelers
among Mountains and
Streams, Northern
Song period, early
11th century.
Fig. 17-9.
China
Example:
• Song Dynasty
• Age of technological
progress
• Landscape painting
• Observation of nature
• Evocative scale
• Exceeds boder
• Shifting perspective
• Texture strokes
FAN KUAN, Travelers among
Mountains and Streams, Northern
Song period, early 11th century.
Fig. 17-9.
China
Example:
• Song period, Liao
Dynasty
• Buddhist pagoda
• Chinese wood
construction: pitched
roof, projecting eaves,
columns, brackets,
lintels—skeletal
• Colors symbolic
Foguang Si Pagoda, Liao dynasty,
1056. Fig. 17-12.
China
Example:
• Ming Dynasty
• Palace complex of
emperor
• Restricted access
• Ritual architecture
• Gates, courtyards,
buildings
• North-south axis to
throne
Forbidden City, Ming dynasty, 15th
century and later. Fig. 17-15.
China
Example:
• Ming Dynasty
• Hanging scroll
landscape painting
• Literati painting
• Free and expressive
style of Southern
Song painting
• Abstract patterns of
light and shadow
DONG QICHANG, Dwelling in the
Qingbian Mountains, Ming dynasty,
1617. Fig. 17-17.
Korea
Namdaemun, Seoul, Choson dynasty, first built in 1398. Fig. 17-21.
Korea
Example:
• Choson Dynasty,
Korea
• Korea influenced by
China
• Civic structure: gate to
city
• Stone foundation,
wood above, brackets
• Compare to Roman
triumphal arches
Namdaemun, Seoul, Choson dynasty,
first built in 1398. Fig. 17-21.