During the Tang dynasty era of Ancient Chinese history, art, and fashion flourished as China came into contact with other cultures and beliefs through the Silk Road trade. The Dunhuang Caves is an excellent reservoir of collected art pieces and scripts. When reviewing the Caves, one is struck with the richness and diversity of its… Continue reading Final Project
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Week 13
This week we talked about Western art collectors. This was a fascinating topic when in conversation with Ming art collectors. It was frustrating to see how Western collectors completely disregarded the importance and cultural/religious significance of Ancient Chinese art. In one instance, a piece of the mural was completely torn off and brought back to… Continue reading Week 13
Final Project Draft
During the Tang dynasty era of Ancient Chinese history, art, and fashion flourished as China came into contact with other cultures and beliefs through the Silk Road trade. The Dunhuang Caves serve as an excellent reservoir of collected art pieces and scripts. When reviewing the Caves, one is struck with the richness and diversity of… Continue reading Final Project Draft
Week 12 Blog Post
This week, we reviewed Ming art collectors on Tuesday and imperial collections on Thursday. I wasn’t very intrigued with the content we reviewed so I’m not sure if my blog post will be able to bring any interesting discussion… Broadly speaking, we saw what kinds of goods art collectors had in their possessions. There were… Continue reading Week 12 Blog Post
Week 11 Blog Post
For week 11, our main discussion was on artisans in ancient China and their status. I found this topic particularly interesting, though getting through the assigned article was a bit rough and some of the concepts were out of my reach, (so please correct me if I need to understand). The article which was assigned… Continue reading Week 11 Blog Post
Ceramics
For this week’s class, we discussed porcelain and ceramics, as well as our writing workshop for our research papers. The pieces we viewed were very intriguing, and the techniques/processes used in order to create intricate and geometric designs were impressive. I liked seeing how Chinese porcelain continued the tradition of dragon imagery and symbolism– and… Continue reading Ceramics
Week 6
For this week’s classes, we talked about textiles. In all honesty, this specific topic was incredibly boring to me :,) We watched videos on how the yarn was produced. This was vaguely interesting to me as I enjoy knitting. Yet the process in which the people in the videos were able to make yarn seemed… Continue reading Week 6
Week 5
During class this week, we talked about the Tang Dynasty and its progressiveness, and how it interacted with the surrounding regions. Emperor Taizong was able to establish loose-bridle prefectures within the Western regions. He was able to integrate the Turkish leaders into his own government– giving them autonomy yet simultaneously using their calvary to his… Continue reading Week 5
Week 4
During this week, we talked about some of the artifacts that were in the Qin Emperors’ tomb. While I was previously aware of the Terracotta army, and how impressive of an artistic feat it was to finish them– the sheer expansiveness of his tomb, and how intricate each section of his tomb was, astounded me. … Continue reading Week 4
my idea for the final project
My idea for the final project is to research some form of art. I am leaning towards paintings because I am an artist and that is my favorite medium but also because that is what I primarily saw when looking through art museum’s ancient china exhibits. I am also considering maybe calligraphy, I was able… Continue reading my idea for the final project
