AHI 1D Lecture 1: Chinese Art notes
Document Summary
The importance of jade: begining in neolithic. Chinese vessel types - evolves from neolithic types. Dawn of bronze age - how bronze changes (process) Slip - tinted clay paint used on un-fired vessels. Wheel - thrown (related to ceramic production) ceramic vessel construction method. Early examples are all coil pots (hand built) Oracle bones - earliest representation of writing in china, and you can trace chinese language back to these bones (animal bones) Shamans would carve in the inscription with simple examples questions. And then put the bone into fire and view the cracks. The crack could be read for a replu to the question. Touches of white, more translucent and valuable. Pots super symmetric for pots made out of coil and not wheel. Terracotta, with iron oxide slip. (it rusts so red color) Made out of coils and paddeled into shape in order to be smooth.
