Art History Timeline:

EASTERN ART

CHINA

Chinese Pottery History and development

of porcelain, celadon and
(18,000 BCE - 1911 CE) stoneware.

World's oldest clay-fired Xianrendong Cave Pottery

pots, found in Jiangxi
Province. (c.18,000 BCE)

World's second oldest

ceramic ware discovered
Yuchanyan Cave in a limestone rock
shelter south of the
(16,000 BCE) Yangzi River basin in
Hunan Province.

Painting, bronze
sculpture, metalwork,
enamelling, decorative Chinese Art
arts, architecture and
crafts.

Ceremonial bronzes, jade

carvings, pottery,
lacquerware, metal
Traditional Chinese Art sculpture, clay statuettes,
scroll painting,
calligraphy and more.

Late Stone Age cultures in

China; Xia Dynasty,
Neolithic Art in China
Bronze Age art.
(7500-2000 BCE)

Jade Carving Art of hardstone carving

in nephrite, jadeite.
(c.4900 BCE onwards)

Art of decorating wood,

bamboo, metal or other
surfaces, with a hard,
resinous, colourful finish, Lacquerware
made from the resin of
the Toxicodendron (4,500 BCE onwards)
vernicifluum, known as
the Lacquer Tree.

Noted for its black

eggshell pottery, bronze
Xia Dynasty Culture making (including the
piece-mold casting
(c.2100-1600 BCE) technique), sericulture,
early forms of calligraphy.
 Renowned for its
ceremonial bronzes, plus
developments in pottery, Shang Dynasty Art
jade carving, lacquerware
and ivory carving, as well (1700-1050 BCE)
as fine turqoise goblets,
and more.

Large-scale bronze
sculptures of human faces
Sanxingdui Bronzes and masks uncovered
near the present-day city
(1200-1000 BCE) of Guanghanin, in the
province of Sichuan.

Celebrated for its

outstanding bronze
casting of ceremonial
vessels, as well as jade Zhou Dynasty Art
carving, and the
development of (1050-221 BCE)
calligraphy and
lacquerware.

Famous for the

extraordinary hoard of
figurative sculpture
Qin Dynasty Art known as the Chinese
Terracotta Army, one of
(221-206 BCE) the greatest archeological
finds in the history of
Asian art.

Ink and Wash paintings,

Mountain-and-Water
paintings, Tang Chinese Painting
Landscapes, Song Dynasty
Golden Age of Chinese (from c.200 BCE)
painting (960-1279), Roll
paintings.

Ink and Wash paintings,

Mountain-and-Water
Chinese Calligraphy paintings, Tang
Landscapes, Song Dynasty
(206 BCE - 1911 CE) Golden Age of Chinese
painting (960-1279), Roll
paintings.

Celebrated for
developments in Chinese
pottery (notably ceramic
figurines), jade carving
Han Dynasty Art
(notably jade suits), silk
weaving and Chinese
(206 BCE - 220 CE)
painting (on paper).

Noted for its Buddhist

architecture and
Arts of the Six Dynasties Period decorative art, as well as
cave paintings as well as
(220-589) stone statues carved out
of cliffs, and more.

Buddhist statuary ranks

alongside jade carving,
lacquerware and Chinese Buddhist Sculpture
porcelain, as one of
China's most distinctive (c.100-present)
visual arts.

Chinese Porcelain Characteristics, history,

types of fine white china.
(c.100-1800)

Chronological list of
Chinese artists, from the Chinese Painters
4th century to the 20th
century, including (c.220-present)
contemporary painters.

Buddhism stimulated
demand for all types of
Sui Dynasty Art art, including architecture
and ceramics. Bronze
(589-618) statues depicted both
Buddha and Bodhisattvas,
as did ivory carving.
 Famous for its shan shui
(mountain-water)
painting, tomb murals, Tang Dynasty Art
jade carving, Buddhist
stone sculpture, and (618-906)
more.

Noted for its ink and wash

Song Dynasty Art painting, calligraphy and
jade carving as well as
(960-1279) black and red
lacquerware, and more.

Noted for calligraphy, ink

and wash painting,
Buddhist stone statues, Yuan Dynasty Art
and the first recorded
blue-and-white Chinese (1271-1368)
porcelain.

world famous its ceramic

art: in particular, its
Ming Dynasty Art cobalt blue and white
porcelain, its sea-green
(1368-1644) celadon glazed stoneware,
and its white porcelain
sculpture.

Famous for landscape

painting, Buddhist
temples of the Tibetan Qing Dynasty Art
school, porcelain
decorated with fencai (1644-1911)
enamel, and more.

Pseudo-Chinese decorative
style which flourished in
Chinoiserie Europe. Chinoiserie motifs
(dragons, pagodas, figures,

(17th/18th Century) landscapes) were introduced

into garden architecture,
interior design, ceramics,
textiles and silks.

Chinese contemporary painting

movement, influenced by Surrealism,
that satirized the fear and uncertainly Cynical Realism
prevalent among the avant-garde
following the suppression of the (1990s)
Tiananmen demonstrations (1989).

INDIA

World's oldest cave art.

Cupules found at Bhimbetka Petroglyphs
Auditorium Cave &
Daraki-Chattan Rock (290,000-700,000 BCE)
Shelter.

Harappan seal-carving,
Indus Valley Civilization & Culture bronzes - like the Dancing
Girl of Mohenjo-Daro -
(3,300-1300 BCE) pottery and architecture.

Indus Valley culture,

Pillars of Ashoka, Ajanta
Caves, Hindu sculpture of
the Gupta Empire Indian Sculpture
Elephanta Caves, Pallava,
Pandya, Pala, Chandela, (3300 BCE - 1850)
Chola and Mughal schools
of plastic art.

Ajanta, Bagh, Sigiriya,

Badami, Panamalai,

Classical Indian Painting Sittanavasal, Tanjore, and

Polotmaruva schools of
painting plus Pali illuminated
(Up to 1150 CE) manuscripts and late
Buddhist art in Bengal and Sri
Lanka.
 Located in Madhya Kandariya Mahadeva Temple
Pradesh, India, it is
renowned for its Nagara- (Khajuraho)
style architecture and
erotic stone carvings. (1017-29)

Vijayanagar painting,
Post-Classical Indian Painting Gujarat illuminations,
illustrations from Mewar
(14th-16th Century) and Malva, plus Hindu art
in Orissa.

A masterpiece of 17th Taj Mahal

century Mughal
architecture. (1632-54)

Babur, Akbar, Jahangir,

Shah Jahan and
Mughal Painting Aurengzeb painters, plus
painting from the
(16th-19th Century) Islamicised Sultanates of
the Deccan.

Rajastan, Mewar, Malva,

Bundi, Kotah, Kishangar
painters, plus the Upper
Punjab schools like the
Rajput Painting
Basohli, Guler, Jammu,
Garual and Kangra
(16th-19th Century)
groups.

INDONESIA

Chinese contemporary painting

movement, influenced by Surrealism, that
satirized the fear and uncertainly
prevaleAsia's oldest known cave art, proof
that creativity first emerged before
Sulawesi Cave art
(c.37,900 BCE)
modern man left Africa to migrate around
the world.nt among the avant-garde
following the suppression of the
Tiananmen demonstrations (1989).

JAPAN

Jomon pottery, art of the

Buddhist Temples, Zen ink-
painting, Yamato-e
("Japanese Painting"), Japanese Art
Ukiyo-e ("Pictures of the
Floating World"), and more.

Harappan seal-carving,
bronzes - likeAncient "cord
Jomon Pottery pattern" pottery produced
by Japan's first Stone Age
(c.14500-1000 BCE) culture. the Dancing Girl of
Mohenjo-Daro - pottery and
architecture.

Japanese woodcuts that

were hugely fashionable
during the Edo culture
(Tokyo), by artists like Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints
Hiroshige (1797-1858) and
Hokusai (1760-1849). (c.1670-1900)
Exported to Europe in the
1860s.

Name given to the late-19th

Japonism century European craze for

Japanese art - notably
screens, fans, lacquers, silks,
(c.1854-1900) porcelains and Ukiyo-e
prints.
 Japanese art of paper folding.
Known as Zhezhi in China, and Origami
Jong-i jeob gi in Korea.

CAMBODIA

Angkor Wat Temple

Architecture & Sculpture of 12th
century Khmer temple in
Cambodia, built by King
Suryavarman II, to serve as his
mausoleum.
(c.1115-1145)

KOREA

Including its prehistoric

culture, as well as arts from
Korean Art the Three Kingdoms period,
Silla Period, Goryeo Dynasty,
(from 3,000 BCE) Joseon Dynasty, and Modern
period.

RUSSIAN FAR EAST

Paleolithic & neolithic Amur River Basin Pottery

ceramic pots, from the
Russian Far East. (14,300 BCE)

CONTEMPORARY ART
PRESENT

FRANKIE JOYCE V. TAGLE

BSIE 1C-S

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