2018 Orange Global Art

Chilkat Blanket

2000 BCE

Chilkat blanket weaving originated with the Tsimshain tribes and spread to the Tlingits through trade and marriage.blankets take about a year of intense labor to make, and were highly sought by Northwest coast indians. Traditionally only the wealthy would wear the chilkat blanket. Men and women both take part in making the blanket. Patterns and looks we're provided by the men and the women gathered cedar bark and yarn to be wove.

Asmat Bisj Poles

1979 BCE

They are the 15 foot high wooden poles from the Asmat people carved from the Mangrove trees. The poles is carved with crouching figures and contained many aspects of religion and mythology. These 'bis' poles were used in a ritual feasts to honor the dead. Basically the trunk of Mangrove trees is used to carve in a believe to set a balance (for the loss of one person) in the world. The poles then displayed in bis ceremony for head hunt and plated in swamp in the end

Maria Montoya Jar

1939 BCE

Maria Montoya is one of the best known native Potter of the 20th century, as she had carried on a long tradition of black pot making to the non native culture. Maria was an observant, as this would be how she learned different techniques from other potters. The art of pot making is a communal event, some pot makers would even allow others to decorate their pots.

Nail Figure (Nkisi n'Kondi)

1875 BCE

Nkisi is considered as the sacred medicine to the people of Democratic republic of congo. It represents 'spirit' (plural:minkisi) which they believed it was bought to earth from heaven by their god. Basically, humans or animals figure are carved which then spiritually activated by their spiritual activists 'nganga' through chants, prayers and sacred substances.

The Great Wave of Kanagawa

1826 BCE

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a part of woodblock print series made by Katsushika Hokusai. The series is called Thirty-Six views of Mount Fuji and it was so famous during the time that he made forty-six scenes. Focal point Fuji mount is the only not moving part in the scene which stabilizes the force. The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a masterpiece of unity and harmony.

Lotus Mahal

1600 BCE

The Lotus Mahal is a two-story monument of uncertain function and it is located in Vijayanagara, India. It has a lotus looking structure and the vaulted second story rooms have a same look of the pyramidal roofs of southern Indian temples vimanas. The Lotus Mahal is an example of South Asian art and architecture style of the second millennium.

Taj Mahal

1600 BCE

Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving Shah Jahan as a memorial to his third beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. It was built of white marble and walls are inlaid precious and semiprecious stones. Taj Mahal has a perfect symmetrical balance which gives the building beauty and stability. The entire complex includes the central mausoleum, minarets, a mosque, a meeting house, a gatehouse, and a grand garden.

Coatlicue

1487 BCE

Coatlicue or " serpent skirt" is a goddess of Aztecs and was found and reburied twice for being pagan and horrifying. The basalt structure where's the neckless of severed hands and hearts with a large skull pendent. Coatlicue wears a skirt of interweaving snakes and head is made of two large snake heads that face each other.

Lofty Mount Lu

1467 BCE

Lofty Mount Lu is a hanging scroll made by Shen Zhou, a master of the Wu school painting, as a gift to his beloved teacher. It is considered his finest hanging scroll which bears a beautiful Mount Lu painting and a long poem written by the artist in honor of his teacher. Shen painted Mount Lu peaks to resemble his teacher’s virtue and character, even though he had never seen the mountain.

Akua's Child (Akua ba)

1960

Akua ba represents the fertility doll which is famous in African art. The name came after the Akan legend of women, Akua. It is a Disk-headed structure carried by the women at their back, wrapped by their skirt hoped of having a ideal child which is a practice initiated by Akua who bear a beautiful daughter. It is a wooden carved figure which sometime carved from the mud too. Generally the doll figures are all female since Akua's first child was a girl.