Papier-mache dragon – Ancient China project
Chinese dragon, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Beginning at least as early as the Chou Dynasty, around 1100 BC, dragons like this one were the symbols of [...]
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How to make a Chinese Buddha Statue – China projects
A Buddha statue made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Many people in China after about 500 AD prayed to Buddha as a god. Buddhists often made gold statues [...]
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Mandala project – Buddhism in medieval China
Mandala from Dunhuang Caves, 900s AD - make your own mandala project What is a mandala? The Indian word "mandala" means a circle. Buddhists all over East Asia made mandalas [...]
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Tang Dynasty Chinese Pottery – Medieval China
T'ang Dynasty cup (Musee Guimet, Paris) Who invented porcelain? About 700 AD in China, plain white porcelain pottery first begins to appear, like these cups and these bowls. What is [...]
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Tang Dynasty Chinese Art – Medieval China
T'ang dynasty dancing women - Musee Guimet, Paris Sculpture, which had really begun to develop during the Sui Dynasty, reached its height under the T'ang Dynasty. Sculptors emphasized graceful lines [...]
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Song Dynasty Chinese Art – Medieval China
Fan Kuan, "Traveling amid Streams and Mountains" (National Palace Museum, Taipei) Landscape painting got even better under the Song Dynasty than it had been under the T'ang Dynasty that came [...]
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Sui Dynasty Art – Painting and porcelain in Medieval China
Sui Dynasty art: a clay camel, ca. 600-650 AD What came before the Sui Dynasty? In the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese artists had learned a lot about Indian and West [...]
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Stone Age Chinese Art – Early China
Jar from Ban'po, 4800 BC The earliest form of art we know from China was pottery - clay pitchers and bowls starting about 5000 BC. Most of the best early [...]
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Shang Dynasty Chinese Art – Bronze Age China
Shang bronze pitcher, about 1300 BC(Musee Guimet, Paris) When did the Bronze Age start in China? By about 2000 BC, people in China learned from the people of West Asia how [...]
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Yuan Dynasty Chinese art – Mongols in China
Yuan Dynasty china bowls Mongols and Chinese art You might think that the invasion of the Mongols in 1279 AD would have killed off a lot of artists and there wouldn't [...]
