...Throughout Chinese history there were eight dynasties, including three before the famous six, along with those, and within the eight dynasties many kinds of ceramic arts were developed. All of the dynasties are equally important, to each culture’s time they learned new ways to build, glaze, fire and perfect ceramics and porcelain. The first couple of dynasties always shape the forthcoming dynasties into greatness. The Neolithic era, the Bronze Age, and the Han era were the foundations, the beginnings of the famous crisp blue and satin white porcelain, and the gorgeous ceramic pottery of what ceramics you see in China today. In the Neolithic period, the invention of pottery or ceramics around 5000-2200 B.C., the idea grew and changed exponentially throughout the course of history. The Neolithic dynasty had many trial and errors; after all they were the first to discover ceramics. Most or almost all of the pottery that came out of the Neolithic dynasty was not glazed, considering that glazing wasn’t really discovered yet. The regions with the most influence of pottery were the cultures of Ta-ti-wan, Pan-Po, Miao-ti-kou, and Lung shan. The pottery from the Neolithic era was almost always hand built; with reds, grays, and black wares, always complimented the craftsmanship of the ceramic pottery. Since the discovery of glaze wasn’t quite established yet, the normal design for a ceramic piece of this time was carving, painting or having plain black pottery. The photo above is a...
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...Jomons By: Aron Johnson Jomons The Jomon people were located in Japan. The Jomon period was from about 1,500 BC to 300 BC. They were mostly known for their hunting, while the women focused on their pottery. The first pottery phase for the Jomons were made by using cords and were all made by hand, without the invention of the wheel. The word Jomon means “cord-marking” in Japanese. They used many tools and also enjoyed jewelry and figurines. They had little development with agriculture and didn’t use any kind of metal. The mostly used stone for knives, axes, etc. The Jomons lived in pit dwellings surrounded by open areas, but because of the climate changing, they had to move around a lot. Since the Jomon Period lasted so long, they were divided into different phases. Those phases were Incipient, Initial, Early, Middle, Late, and Final. The Incipient Jomons were in the middle of the transition from the Paleolithic ways of life to the Neolithic. The Initial Jomons dealt with the climate warming up, which increased food supplies for them. The Early Jomons had large amounts of shell mounds, which showed that the Jomon people’s diets continued to come from the ocean. The middle Jomons marked the high point for the Jomon culture. They increased their population and production of hand crafts. The warming climate also reached its high point which caused a lot of movement in the mountain regions. The Late Jomons had to deal with the climate cooling down, which caused the people to...
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...Dr. Margaret Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of African American History, in 1961 on the south side of Chicago. Unlike other museums, the DuSable Museum in an independent institution dedicated to preserving the history of Africans and African Americans with numerous exhibits for visitors to enjoy and experience. Throughout, the DuSable Museum, visitors are taken though varies time frames in history, all which encompass the African and African American history. One can find beaded necklaces, tribal pieces, bow and arrows, and numerous other artifacts that can be dated from all five regions of Africa. This museum also has an exhibit that tells the life story of slaves, beginning from the voyage to American and other colonies, to the very...
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...Ancient Grecian pottery was used for holding food and liquids. Different pottery was used for different purposes. In the history Summative assignment, I must explain what this amphora is used for. How was pottery used in Ancient Greece? • Many types of pottery were used for different purposes. The amphora discussed in the paragraph, is a storage jar, used to hold and store oil, wine, milk and grain. Occasionally, they were used for holding burnt offerings or the remains of dead people. Other pottery was also used for 1. Storage 2. Carrying 3. Mixing 4. Serving 5. Drinking 6. Cosmetic containers 7. Perfume containers • Clay is also cheap, and was accessible in ancient Greece, making it also easy for Greeks to create pottery. • Terracotta...
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...The Plum Bayou culture was a prehistoric Native American culture that existed in the central Arkansas region between 650 and 1050 AD. This culture is named after the Plum Bayou site, where archaeologists have uncovered evidence of its existence. The Plum Bayou people were known for their advanced farming techniques, pottery-making skills, and complex social organization. One of the key aspects of the Plum Bayou culture was their agriculture. The people of this culture were skilled farmers who grew crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They also practiced a form of agriculture known as "raised bed gardening," where they built mounds of soil to plant their crops on. This allowed them to grow more food in a smaller area, enabling them to support...
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...compared to other sherds found in other different mound sites also thought to have been occupied by the Swift Creek culture sometime during history (Pluckhahn and Cordell 2011). The McKeithen site is one of the mound sites that had the same pottery structure as the sherds found at Kolomoki (Pluckhahn 2007). The McKeithen site is located in north-central Florida, which means this pottery style was carried further down south than was thought at first (Pluckhahn 2007). This site was dated 200-900 AD, which mean that he Swift Creek culture traded their pottery, or they migrated further down south and other indigenous groups cultivated their pottery styles (Pluckhahn 2007). In the late 1940s and early 1950s, archaeological excavations started to...
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...|Paper Name: | OM530 | |Paper Number: |530 | |Assessment Number: |Assessment Three | |Assessment Name: |Individual Assignment | |Total Weighting: |45% | |Total Marks: |60 | |Lecturer Name: |Krish Naidu | |Year/Intake |2015 /May Intake | |Due Date: |Week 15 (Tuesday class time) | Learning Outcomes (LO) Assessed: LO 6, 7&8 Assessment Summary – Answer all questions |Section |Topic |Possible Marks |Your Marks | |A |Organisational Structure...
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...Compare and contrast influence on Face jug’s for Black Slaves White potters early 1900’s Mitchell Grafton Comparing and contrasting influence to face jug’s by different artists and potters from different time periods in history, helps us gain knowledge about the creative process of artists. The Black slaves made pottery because were not allowed to have tombstones so they would make face jugs and use it as grave markers. They had hidden meanings behind it. The white potter suffered economic depressions and they began making face jugs to earn money and prevent them from going out of business. Mitchell Grafton makes pottery by learning new techniques and he believes that there will be someone else to keep the tradition alive. Firstly slaves...
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...Contemporary Ceramics, The Art of Contemporary American Pottery, The Complete Guide to High Fire Glazes, and Masters of Porcelain. Sam Chung has a unique view of what he likes for his pottery pieces; he is interested in the way that pots have the unique ability to serve a multitude of roles and functions. He likes to not just make ordinary symmetrical pieces, but something more with a curve and a part of clay here and there to where you don’t know what to do with it other than look at it and be amazed. He is interested in a pot’s ability to contain not only physical matter, but also elements of history, memory, familiarity, and suggestion. I for one really like how some of his work looks, I like the different unique style of work. He goes above what the average artist does. It looks like, by what I saw he did, that he likes to use mainly white with black line looks, but in later years he has done more with color in his work. I like the black and white more, just because it is a more neutral and I like those colors in art better than the reds or blues or greens etc. In recent work Sam Chung has used a cloud pattern on his work. This is used a lot in Korean work as well. For his schooling he got a Master of Fine Arts Degree (M.F.A.) in Ceramics. He also got a Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.) in Ceramics. His interest is in the challenge of creating pots that reflect our contemporary time while drawing from the vernacular of pottery shapes that have lasted for ages. I think this is cool...
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...Ceramic Pottery Ceramic pottery is one of the oldest and diverse forms of human art; and for good reason- its a very simple process. Ceramics are made from clay (or a mixture of clay and other materials) that is shaped into a desired form then heated. Almost all developed cultures have known this recipe for thousands of years and each has established a long history of ceramic arts. Through the millennia, these different cultures have taken the rather simple process and adapted it to their own taste while also assimilating foreign influences imported through intercontinental trade and migrations. The result is an art form that is universally popular, yet regionally unique. The oldest examples of ceramic pottery date back past 10,000 BC and come from southern China and Japan. These early pots were made through the “coiling” method, a technique that required the clay to be worked into a long string which was wound round onto itself to form walls that could then be molded smooth. This process was independently developed by cultures across the world but was eventually replaced by the potter’s wheel after its invention in Mesopotamia around 4,000 BC. Thanks to the potter’s wheel, from 900 to 500 B.C. ceramic pottery was widely implemented throughout Ancient Greece, most commonly in the form of decoratively painted vases. While Greek vases typically depicted a scene or story drawn on the exterior, their interior served a variety of purposes; from small jugs used to store and transport...
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...There are many unique aspects in the first Chinese dynasties. These unique aspects include their use of bronze, the belief in dangerous spirits, and the record keeping of the first dynasties. An example of a unique feature of the first Chinese dynasties is the fact that the ancient Chinese people recorded history through dynasties. The earliest writing from China was from the Shang Dynasty. During this time, the Shang Dynasty was creating pottery that had engravings of a pictographic writing system. This system was used by priests to tell the future. The priest also engraved the questions they had on turtle shells and animals using sharp tools. The writing on the animal bones and turtle shells developed into the Chinese people’s current written language. The style in which they used to crave the symbols is now known as...
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...Pottery is a skill man acquired very early in cultural development. “In the Far East, pottery has been found from around 10,000 BC” (Hutt 69). The Tang Dynasty period, 618 to 907 AD is only one small section of history on the Chinese pottery timeline, but it is noted especially for its ceramic funerary animals and its change from earthenware to stoneware. There is a strong foreign influence during this period and it is evident in the ceramics as well as other art (Medley 77). During the Tang period, there are gradual improvements in the earthenware and stoneware. It seems that there is a search for the “pure white body” (Medley 97). For centuries, there had been a continued effort to make bodies cleaner, whiter, and harder. It is in the Tang Period that “the clay bodies themselves were essentially kaolinic, being supplemented… with other ingredients which helped towards a degree of vitrification. It is to this type of material in north China that the term porcellanous is applied” (Medley 99). It is perhaps a type of “protoporcelain” that leads historians to believe that porcelain was developed sometime between the Han and Tang dynasties (Latourette 628). This had a profound impact on the art of Asia and of Europe (Medley 102). The result of this type of pottery was also the invention of the word “china,” the modern word for more refined ceramics used today (Smith 142). The animals frequently found in Tang ceramics were created using several moulds and then by luting...
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...African Archaeological Review, Vol 15, No. 3, 1998 A Review of Swahili Archaeology Felix A. Chami1 The Swahili people have been viewed as of Persian/Arabic or Cushitic-speaking origin. Scholars have used historical and archaeological data to support this hypothesis. However, linguistic and recent archaeological data suggest that the Swahili culture had its origin in the early first centuries AD. It was the early farming people who settled on the coast in the last centuries BC who first adopted iron technology and sailing techniques and founded the coastal settlements. The culture of the iron-using people spread to the rest of the coast of East Africa, its center changing from one place to another. Involvement in transoceanic trade from the early centuries AD contributed to the prosperity of the coastal communities as evidenced by coastal monuments. More than 1500 years of cultural continuity was offset by the arrival of European and Arab colonizers in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries AD. Le peuple Swahili a souvent ete considere comme un peuple dont la langue avait pour origine le Perse/Arabe ou le Cushite. Les chercheurs ont utilise des donees historiques et archeologiques afin de supporter cette hypothese. Cependant I'etude linguistique de cette langue, ainsi que de nouvelles decouvertes archeologiques suggerent que la culture Swahili trouve son origine au debut de l'ere chretienne. Ils furent les premiers fermiers a s'installer le long du littoral, fondant des...
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...“archaeology that brings Stalling history to life” (Sassaman 26). Sassaman tells the story of the shoals people...
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...Art and CultureArt in ancient GreeceThe Charioteer of Delphi, Delphi Archaeological Museum. One of the greatest surviving works of Greek sculpture, dating from about 470 B.C. Source:WikipediaThe art of ancient Greece has exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until the present, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In the West, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models. In the East, Alexander the Great's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Central Asian and Indian cultures, resulting in Greco-Buddhist art, with ramifications as far as Japan. Following the Renaissance in Europe, the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists. Well into the 19th century, the classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the western world.PeriodsThe art of Ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, the Archaic, the Classical and the Hellenistic.As noted above, the Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years (traditionally known as the Dark Ages), the period of the 7th century BC witnessed the slow development of the Archaic style as exemplified by the black-figure style of vase painting. The onset of the Persian Wars (480 BC to 448 BC) is usually taken as the dividing line...
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