intro to Art 348

1. Chinese Art day 1
不要惊慌(do not panic)
Bùyào jīnghuāng

2. Ai Weiwei, Han Dynasty
Urn with Coca-Cola Logo,
1994, Urn, Western Han
Dyn. (206 BC- 24AD)

3. Han dynasty grave goods, ca. 25-200 CE

4. • Ai Wei Wei,
Sunflower Seeds
installation at
Turbine Hall, Tate
Modern,

5. • Longshan period
eggshell pottery
• ca. 2500-1700 BCE

8. Ai Weiwei, Study of Perspective-Tiananmen,
1995-2003, black/white
photographic print.

10. • Remembering, Installation of backpacks for the facade
of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2009 (Title of the
show was So Sorry)

11. • School collapsed after Chengdu, Sichuan earthquake, 2008

12. • Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, ca. 1095 CE

13. • Fisherman, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), ca. 1350
Wu Zhen (Chinese, 1280–1354)

14. Chinese Words & Names
• Rule #1: Don’t Panic
• Romanization
• Chinese is a character-based, tonal language
• Wade-Giles (now obsolete but often appears in older scholarship)
• Pinyin (currently used, official choice of PRC)
• Guides to pronunciation and Romanization converters on Bb

15. A note on dates
• BCE and CE (Before the Common Era and Common Era)
• BC and AD (Before Christ and Anno Domini, Year of Our Lord)
• BCE = BC
• CE = AD

16. Timeline weirdness
• 17th century BCE = 1600’s BCE
• 17th century CE = 1600’s CE
• Which is earlier: 1700 BCE or 1600 BCE?
• 1700 BCE
• Which is earlier: 1600 CE or 1700 CE?
• 1600 CE
BC/BCE Buddha Christ AD
2007 1700 1600 500
1 1 1600 1700 2007
Muhammad
570

17. Major Dynasties & Western World Art Periods
• Shang 1766-1027 BCE = (Egypt, Neolithic/Bronze Age,
Aegean)
• Zhou 1122-256 BCE = (Greece, Rome)
• Han 206 BCE- 220 CE = (Roman Empire)
• Tang 618-907 CE = (Birth of Islam, Early Middle Ages)
• Sung 969-1279 CE = (Carolingian, Romanesque,
Gothic)
• Yuan 1279-1368 CE = (Gothic, Renaissance)
• Ming 1368-1644 CE = (Renaissance, Baroque)
• Qing 1644-1912 CE = (Enlightenment, Romanticism,
Realism, Neoclassical, Modern)
• PRC (People’s Republic of China) 1949-ff.