2. Characteristics
 It shows culture and history of the
country where it is from.
 It focuses more on the natural and
spiritual.
 There are 2 countries highlighted in this
era: China and India

4. Characteristics
 Forms of art have been influenced by
great philosophers, teachers, religious
figures and even political leaders.
 Divided into periods by the ruling
dynasties.

6. Chinese Art
Early forms of art in China were made from pottery and jade in the Neolithic period
ceramics were unpainted and most often cord-marked .
Banpo (1953)
discovered at the Yellow River Valley

7. The Bronze Age in China began with the Xia Dynasty.
Shang Dynasty has more elaborate objects, including
many ritual vessels that were crafted.
The most common motif in the Zhou Dynasty is
the taotie, which shows a mythological being presented
frontally as though squashed onto a horizontal plane to
form a symmetrical design.

8. Bronze jue Ding from late
(wine vessel) Zhou Dynasty

10.  In early imperial China, porcelain was
introduced and was refined to the point that
in English the word china has become
synonymous with high-quality porcelain.
Around the 1st century AD, Buddhism arrived
in China, though it did not become popular
until the 4th century.

12. Qin Dynasty
 The Terracotta Army, inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor,
consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terra-cotta figures of
warriors and horses buried with the self-proclaimed
first Emperor of Qin in 210–209 BC.
 The terracotta army belongs to Emperor Qin Shi Huang and they
are there to guard his burial site as well as protecting the entry to
the afterlife. He was the dynasty Emperor who managed to unify
China so that it became a central state and it was also because of
him that the foundations of the great wall were laid down.

16. •The Han Dynasty was known for jade burial suits.
A Han Dynasty Jade burial suit at the
National Museum of China, Beijing

17.  Buddhist architecture and sculpture thrived
in the Sui and Tang dynasty. Of which, the
Tang Dynasty was particularly open to
foreign influence. Buddhist sculpture
returned to a classical form, inspired by
Indian art of the Gupta period. Towards the
late Tang dynasty, all foreign religions were
outlawed to support Taoism.

19.  Paintings in traditional style involved the same
techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush
dipped in black or colored ink.
 In the Tang Dynasty , the primary subject matter of
paintings was the landscapes known as shanshui
(mountain water) painting.
 These landscapes are usually monochromatic and
sparse. Its purpose is to grasp an emotion or
atmosphere so as to catch the rhythm of nature.

22.  In the Song Dynasty, poetry was marked by a lyric
poetry known as Ci ( ) which expressed feelings of
desire, often in an adopted persona. Also in the Song
dynasty, paintings of more subtle expression of
landscapes appeared, with blurred outlines and
mountain contours which conveyed distance through
an impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena. It
was during this period that in painting, emphasis was
placed on spiritual rather than emotional elements, as
in the previous period.

24. •Under the Ming dynasty, Chinese culture
bloomed.
•Narrative painting, with a wider color range
and a much busier composition than the
Song paintings, was immensely popular
during the time.
•European culture began to make an impact
on Chinese art during this period.

26.  Chinese folk art
 Literature
 Visual Art
 Chinese music
 Performing arts
 Architecture

27. Chinese folk art

28. Literature

29. Visual art

30. Chinese Music

31. Performing Arts

32. Architecture

33. 3rd millennium BC

34.  Indian art can be classified into specific
periods each reflecting particular religious,
political and cultural developments.
 To viewers schooled in the Western tradition,
Indian art may seem overly ornate and
sensuous

35. The earliest examples are petroglyphs

36. Bhimbetka rock painting, Madhya Pradesh, India (c. 30,000
years old)

37. Indian Painting
 Mural Painting or Indian
Fresco
 Mughal Painting

39. Raja Ravi Varma's Shakuntala

41. Indian Sculpture
 Bronze and stones were commonly
used.
 During the 2nd to 1st century BCE in
far northern India, sculptures became
more explicit, representing episodes of
the Buddha’s life and teachings.

42. Bronze Statue of Nataraja

45.  Another of the most popular art forms is called
Rangoli.

46.  Rangoli is a form of sand
painting decoration that uses
finely ground white powder and
colors, and is commonly used
outside homes.

47. Panoramic view of relief sculpture at Mahabalipuram,
a World Heritage Site

48.  Architecture
Varaha Vave Temple
(late 7th century)

49. Ellora Cave

50. The temple complex at Khajuraho—adhering to the
shikhara temple style architecture

51. Akshardham Temple in Delhi
completed in 2005

53.  It was built by Mughal emperor Shah
Jahan in memory of his third wife,
Mumtaz Mahal.
 The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as
"the jewel of Muslim art in India and
one of the universally admired
masterpieces of the world's heritage".

54.  Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature
(kaavya), music and dancing evolved their own rules
conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with
one another not only the underlying beliefs but also the
procedures by which the relationship of the symbols and
the spiritual states were worked out in detail.