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ARTS 105 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Lecture 19ChinaSong DynastyI. Fan KuanII. Su DingoAfter Mongol invasionIII. Ni Zan IV. Shen ZhouOutline of Lecture 20I. Yin HongII. Forbidden CityIII. CeramicsQing DynastyIV. ShitaoV. Lang Shining [Guiseppe Castiglione]Opium Wars and the fall of Dynastic ChinaVI. Ren XiongCurrent LectureVII. Yin Honga. Hundreds of birds admiring the peacock, Ming Dynasty, ink and color on silk, professionali. Shows a study of the details of birds and flowersii. Imperial symbolism, peacock symbolizes emperor, other birds are the governors etc.iii. Still keeps trees, water, etc. done in monochrome, kept simpleVIII. Forbidden City, Ming Dynastyi. Home of the emperor, his wives and consorts, his children, staffed by eunuchs (castrated males so that his wives would not chase after them)ii. Oriented from North to South, feng shui iii. Emperor should be facing the southiv. World's largest surviving royal compoundb. Tienanmen Gate - site of student riotc. Hall of Supreme Harmony - smaller than one might expectThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.i. Buildings remain shorter because Chinese do not fully develop the arch, post and lintel systemii. Red is lucky, mourning color is whited. Marble Carving - largest intact slab of marvel in the worldi. Dragon is very powerful, influential creatureii. Only the emperor can use the 5-clawed dragoniii. Gardens - pavilions, circular doorwaysCeramicso Earthenware: fired at 1000 degrees C, not water tight (must be glazed to hold liquids)o Stoneware: fired at ~1250, silica clay melts to form stone-like surface (doesn't need to be glazed to hold liquid)o Porcelain: made from fine, hard white clay called kaolin, fired at 1400C with another type of fine clay that vitrifies (melts) to form extremely hard white bodyIX. Ru Ware, Celadon, Stoneware, Song Dynastyi. Made for the imperial family onlyii. Made to resemble jade (believed to have life benefiting properties)iii. Very simple, subtle shapeiv. Crackle - hot glaze reacts with cool air and cracksX. Ding Ware, Stoneware, Song Dynastyi. Simple bowl, monochrome glaze, incised with lotus designXI. Porcelain Vase, Ming Dynastyi. China was the only country in the world who knew how to make porcelain for about a millenniumXII. Blue and White Porcelain Vase, Ming Dynastyi. Blue is from cobalt, one of the only colors that can withstand the high temperatures needed for porcelain ii. Three toed dragonQing DynastyIntroduced the queue hairstyle (long single braid, most of head shaved)Overglaze enamel porcelainsPiece is fired, then painted with enamel glaze and fired again at a lower temperatureXIII. Shitaoa. Landscape, Qing Dynasty, ink and color on paper, literatii. Black and peach ink to show texture and depthii. Shitao was part of the Ming imperial familyXIV. Lang Shining [Guiseppe Castiglione]a. One Hundred Horses in a Landscape, Qing Dynastyi. Jesuits would learn about Chinese culture before trying to convertii. Introduced a fused style of paintingiii. Patronized by the emperor Opium Wars and the fall of Dynastic Chinao Britain had massive trade deficit with china, so they grew opium in their Asian colonieso It is estimated that 25% of Chinese population was addicted to opium,o Chinese attempts to through British and their opium outo Chinese lose and western powers begin to carve out protectorateso Opium wars led to Taiping Rebellion, charismatic Chinese leader attempts to over throw the Qingand expel foreignersXV. Ren Xionga. Self-Portrait, Qing Dynastyi. Sought to revive Chinese painting by incorporating western


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