(SESA2) Review
Review
Review the South, East, and Southeast Asia II works in the presentation below.
Can you answer the following questions?
- What was the purpose of the Taj Mahal? What is thought to have been its symbolic meaning? What aesthetic effect does it create?
- What was the Silk Road and what effect did it have on Chinese culture and art?
- Can you describe the function of the pagoda and how it evolved from the stupa?
- What was the function of the Forbidden City, Beijing, China?
- What are the conventions of Japanese art?
- What are the main subjects of ukiyo-e prints?
- What impact did Mongol emperors have on the arts of China?
- Can you summarize the porcelain traditions in China?
- What was the impact of Communism on Chinese art?
- How does Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, reflect both Western and Japanese pictorial traditions?
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