Source #25

1. http://www.rice-paper.com/uses/calligraphy.html
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4. Chinese calligraphy is an Oriental tradition rooted in centuries of practice. It is an art of turning square Chinese characters into expressive images by the responsiveness of rice paper and speed and pressure of a pointed Chinese brush. There are five common scripts in Chinese calligraphy. In its long history of scriptural evolution and refinement, Chinese calligraphy was practiced within a strict framework and governed by restrictive rules.
5. I do.
6. I believe this source because it makes sense and it also matches my other sources that I have searched
   

Source #24

1. http://www.rice-paper.com/uses/painting.html
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4. Painting in China has a long history of evolution and refinement, one that is entirely unique comparing to the other ways of painting humanity has ever developed. The major element of traditional Chinese painting was nature motif, and a work itself was an attempt to capture a feeling, or an immediate response, not an image. Such attitude toward art gave Chinese painting a mainly expressive character in both of its materials and techniques. The Chinese don't paint from life as Western painters do. They observe surroundings and paint what they understand. Chinese painters refer to the action of painting as writing. They take a writing brush to paint and paint in the same way as they write. The Chinese paint with a single color, black, looking upon the monochrome drawing as an art form. There are two styles in Chinese painting, meticulous and freehand style, each requiring different brush, ink and paper.
   
5. I do
6. Even though there is no credentials to this i still believe this source because this seems very accurate. It makes sense as to what they are saying.
   

Source #23

1. http://library.thinkquest.org/C0124022/introduction/eng/history.htm
   
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4. Chinese painting has its origins in the pictographs inscribed on bronze during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. Paintings on silk, possessing linear effecyts, had appeared during the period of the Warring States (475-221BC) and by the late Western Han era (206BC-AD24), paintings in rich colors were being done, such as the murals discovered in Han tombs. In the history of Chinese painting, figure painting was the first genre to appear. The earliest examples, during the Warring States period, were on silk. By the prime Tang (AD740-70), figure painting was already well advanced. Mountains, rivers, flowers and birds served only as the background or embellishment of a painting; they developed into independent genres at a much later date. In time, however, landscape painting became the most important genre and numerous schools,theories and techniques relating to it evolved. The earliest extant Chinese landscape is Spring Excursion by Zhan Ziqian of the Sui(AD 581-618),an artist who paid special attention to brushwork and used dots and lines as his principal method of expression. Today, many artists believe that a mastery of landscape painting makes it easier to learn figure and flower-and bird painting because techniques learnt for the former can be used in the latter.
5. I do
6. This site seems very legit. It has a lot of information on this site and also the information also matches other informations that i have gathered.
   

Source #22

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_painting
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4. Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures. Stone Age pottery was painted with spirals, zigzags, dots, or animals. It was only during the Warring States Period (403-221 B.C.) that artists began to represent the world around them.
5. I do but I also don't
6. I believe this because this information matches other information that I have researched and that I had believed. I don't believe this because wikipedia is a website that anyone can change so this isnt that reliable.
   

Source #21

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_ceramics
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4. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the dynastic periods. China is richly endowed with the raw materials needed for making ceramics The first types of ceramics were made about 11,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era. Chinese Ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated porcelain wares made for the imperial court.
5. I Do and I dont
6. I believe this because all the information that is on here is like other information that I have found and I don't because anyone can change the information on this website.
   

Source #20

1. http://www.imperialtours.net/ceramics.htm
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4. Over the following centuries innumerable new ceramic technologies and styles were developed. One of the most famous is the three-colored ware of the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD), named after the bright yellow, green and white glazes which were applied to the earthenware body. Another type of ware to gain the favor of the Tang court were the qingci, known in the West as celadons. These have a subtle bluish-green glaze and are characterized by their simple and elegant shapes. Blue and white porcelain was first produced under the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368 AD). Potters of the subsequent Ming dynasty (1368-1644) perfected these blue and white wares so that they soon came to represent the virtuosity of the Chinese potter. During the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), porcelain was enriched with the innovation of five-coloured wares. Applying a variety of under-glaze pigments to decorative schemes of flower, landscape and figurative scenes, these wares have gained greatest renown in the West.
5. I do
6. The information goes along witht he rest of my research and this website looks pretty accurate.
   

Source #19

1. http://www.arttiques.com/about_history.html
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4. After the invention of pottery in the Neolithic period, (5000-2200 B.C.), the ancient Chinese succeeded in producing painted pottery, black pottery and carved pottery. The long years of experience in kiln firing led China entering into a new ceramic age in the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) An obvious change in the attitude of figure modelling in the Six Dynasties (265-588 A.D.) was the inclination to include more details, an effort to make the models look more real. Six Dynasties potters also succeeded in improving the quality of early celadon wares both in glaze color and in body clay. The production of glazed proto-porcelain was a significant achievement in Chinese ceramic history. The major contribution made by Tang dynasty (616-906 A.D.) potters was their bold introduction of the multi-colour wares. In early Tang dynasty, production of sancai , or tri-colour pottery figurines dominate the pottery scene. Tang pottery figurines comprised three mayor categories, namely human figures, animals and fabulous tomb guards. The production of blue and white wares at the end of the Yuan dynasty (1280-1367) and the beginning of the Ming dynasty (1368-1643) was generally of a poorer quality, possibly due to the shortage of imported cobalt during the period of political instability. Throughout the Ming dynasty, dragon and phoenix were the most popular decorative motifs on ceramic wares. Another remarkable category of coloured wares produced in the Ming dynasty was the susancai or 'tri-colour'. The major three colours are yellow, green and aubergine. Tri-colour wares of the Ming dynasty appeared in the reigns of Hsuen Te, Chia Ching and Wan Li.The peak of Chinese ceramic production was seen in the reigns of Kang Hsi (1622-1722). Yung Cheng (1723-1735) and Chien Lung (1736-1796) of the Ching dynasty during which improvement was seen in almost all ceramic types, including the blue and white wares, polychrome wares, wucai wares, etc. The improved enamel glazes of early Ching dynasty being fired at a higher temperature also acquired a more brilliant look than those of the Ming dynasty. Ching dynasty is a period specially noted for the production of colour glazes.
5. I do
6. This source seems pretty legit. It has a phone number for you to contact. The information also some what matches the information that I have already gathered.
   

Source #18

1. http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/timeline.htm
2. Patricia Ebrey
3. AB University of Chicago 1968, MA Columbia University 1970, PhD Columbia University 1975
4. This is a timeline of China. It tells me when the arts flourished but sadly it does not tell me when they began.
5. I do.
6. She has very good credentials

Source #17

1. http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/graph/9gramain.htm
2. Patricia Ebrey
3. AB University of Chicago 1968, MA Columbia University 1970, PhD Columbia University 1975
4. The invention of printing in China during the Tang dynasty led to the development of a new art form, woodblock prints. These included both single sheet pictures intended to be pasted on a door or wall, or given away to advertise a product, as well as illustrations in books. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the graphic arts underwent rapid changes in order to adapt to new political and commercial needs. Chinese artists, exposed to Western art and design, incorporated elements of foreign styles into their work. At the same time, with a growing awareness of China’s identity in the world, artists also sought to reinterpret traditional art forms and apply them to new themes. The gradual transformation of Chinese visual culture had an impact on almost everyone in the population, as periodicals reached larger and larger audiences and posters were distributed throughout the country.
5. I do
6. She has very good credentials and also this site seems pretty legit

Source #16

1. http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/callig/callmain.htm
2. Patricia Ebrey
3. AB University of Chicago 1968, MA Columbia University 1970, PhD Columbia University 1975
4. In China, the style in which an individual writes has long been believed to communicate something essential about his or her personality, intellect, and abilities. Even today it is a common presumption that one can "read" the identity of the person through his or her handwriting. By the Later Han, the basic script types had been created, and no new types developed after this time.
5. I do
6. She has good credentials

Source #15

1. http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/4ptgintr.htm
2. Patricia Buckley Ebrey
3. AB University of Chicago 1968, MA Columbia University 1970, PhD Columbia University 1975
4. Wall paintings were produced in great numbers in the early period of China's history. Paintings were also often done on screens, which served in a sense as portable walls, but these too have not survived. From the Song dynasty onwards, paintings in a variety of other more portable formats, such as the hanging scroll and the handscroll, were collected and passed on to later generations in significant quantities. In their details of everyday life and social customs, these paintings often provide information unavailable from written texts. Painting as an art form also reached a very high standard of quality during the Song , which is considered by many to be a high point in the development of the fine arts in China. Landscape themes began to dominate painting during this period, and would continue to be a favorite subject of artists up into the modern period.
5. I do
6. She is a professor of history at Univeristy of Washington

Source #14

1. http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0432760-00.
2. Klein, Donald W., and Peter J. Golas.
3. N/A
4. Western Chou Dynasty- the writing system continued to evolve; bronze vessels were still cast. Vassals enjoyed a free hand within their own domains but recognized the general military, political, and religious preeminence of the Chou. Eastern Chou- As the states that responded to these changes grew in size, power, and complexity, they required an increasing number of advisers, administrators, strategists, and diplomats. This emerging class of specialists included not only disinherited, exiled, or impoverished nobles but, more significantly, talented commoners who received an education directly or indirectly from these nobles. These specialists were the professional forerunners of the scholar-officials who would pilot the Chinese government throughout two millennia of imperial history. And the brilliant thinkers among them also made this period the golden age of Chinese philosophy.
5. I do
6. This source ahs a lot of information that seems pretty accurate

Source #13

1. http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0432760-00.
2. Klein, Donald W., and Peter J. Golas.
3. N/A
4. The Shang dynasty marks the beginning of China's Bronze Age. Written sources, the earliest extant, now supplement archaeological remains. Certain inscriptions on daggers, sacrificial vessels, and pieces of jade probably preserve the most primitive form of Chinese writing. More important for historians, however, are more advanced forms of inscriptions on the bones and tortoise shells used in scapulimancy. Discovered at the end of the last century, these "oracle bones," with their questions and, sometimes, answers concerning favorable times for the planting of crops, chances of success in a coming military campaign, the meaning of the king's dreams, and the like, have greatly added to our picture of Shang society.
5. I do
6. This source is very legit

Source #12

1. http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0432760-00
2. Klein, Donald W., and Peter J. Golas
3. N/A
4. Yang-shao culture (after a site in northwest Honan), characterized by reddish pots, often with geometric designs in black and Lung-shan culture (from the name of a site in Shantung), distinguished by the shiny black surface of its pottery. The technically superior Lung-shan pots show for the first time in China the use of the potter's wheel; many of them also bear potters' marks, though there is as yet no sign of literacy. Other indications of Lung-shan's cultural progress are the defensive walls of firmly packed earth that now began to surround the villages and the clearer social distinctions.
5. I do
6. This source is a site that teachers recommend students to use so this website is pretty accurate.

Source #11

1. http://www.mapsofworld.com/china/china-history/history-of-chinese-art.html
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4. Calligraphy, Painting, Sculpture, Pottery, Architecture, Bronze casting, Jewelery. Photography, Cinema are just some types of chinese art. Each art has been perfected.
   Calligraphy – Xia Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, Painting – all dynasties, Sculpture – Qin Dynasty, Pottery – Han Dynasty, Architecture - Qin Dynasty, Bronze casting – Xia Dynasty and Song Dynasty, Jewelery - all dynasties. Whenever the Chinese have felt need of expressing themselves they have resorted to the artistic forms available to them. Certain art forms like calligraphy have required specialized training and careful practice, a leisure that could only be afforded by the select few in the nobility; while others like sculpture, pottery, architecture, jewelry, have been a professional domain. But professional or amateur the Chinese practitioners of all art forms, in the history of Chinese Art, have always maintained a very high standard of work and ethics. This causes their work to glow with that personal warmth so identifiable in true artists.
5. I do
6. I believe this because the site looks legit. The information matches my other source's information.
   

Source #10

1. http://www.art-virtue.com/painting/history/sung/sung.htm
2. Joshua Hough
3. No credentials
4. The Sung Dynasty artists continued the traditions passed down from the Five Dynasties Period, and in both the landscape art of the north – rugged, steep and precipitous – and in the south – alluring, misty and elegant – scenes were created in which one could travel, gaze, wander and dwell. In paintings of the Sung Dynasty, one could find animals, birds, flowers and humans that were not only accurately depicted in shape and manner, their internal substance, emotions, ideas, and aspiration were also captured by the artists. The Sung Dynasty can be seen as the highlight in the development of traditional Chinese painting. The main themes of Sung painting were landscape, birds and flowers, and the living nature such as bamboos, birds, insects, horses and other plants and animals, and figure painting. The first period was characterized by realism with many landscape paintings drawn out with meticulous and vigorous brushstrokes. Emperor Huizong invented the Skinny Golden Style. The last period of Sung painting was characterized by the beautiful landscape paintings of the south. Literati painting was conceived as a mode through which a noble person expressed his ethical personality. It was much less concerned with technical showiness. Literati painters specialized in plain ink paintings, sometimes with minimal color. They lay great emphasis on the idea that the style with which a painter controlled his brush conveyed the inner style of his character - brushstrokes were seen as expressions of the spirit more than the matters of composition or skill in realistic depiction.
5. I do
6. I believe this source because it matches up with the other research that I had done
   

Source #9

1. http://www.art-virtue.com/painting/history/tang/tang.htm
2. Joshua Hough
3. No credentials
4. Subject matter in painting expanded during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Figure painting at this time flourished and reached one of its peaks in Chinese painting history. Landscape painting also matured quickly during the Tang Dynasty – forms were carefully drawn and rich colors applied, leading to the appellation “gold and blue-green landscapes.” The technique of applying washes of monochrome ink developed shortly after, providing a style of painting that captured images in abbreviated, suggestive forms and sharply contrasted with the rich, courtly beauty of the colored landscapes. These two styles of landscape painting would later lead to the theories of the Northern and Southern schools.
5. I do
6. All of this information is like all of the other informations that i have found from my sources

Source #8

1. http://www.art-virtue.com/painting/history/origin/index.htm
2. Joshua Hough
3. No Credentials
4. Chinese painting and calligraphy are sister arts. When the painting does not quite fully convey the artist’s feelings, the artist inscribes it with a poem. In other cases, a specific poem will be the subject, and without having written a single character on the painting it is filled with a lyrical mood. Thus, painting, poetry, and calligraphy are fully integrated. And when the habit of applying one’s seal on it, the spirit of Chinese painting is presented in its complete form.
5. I do
6. I believe this even though the source does not have any credentials at all because the information matches my other sources

Source #7

1. http://www.chinatownconnection.com/history-of-chinese-painting.htm


2. There isn't really a source.


3. Since there is no source there is no credentials.


4. Traditional Chinese painting dates back to the Neolithic Age about 6,000 years ago. The colored pottery with painted human faces, fish, deer and frogs indicates that the Chinese began painting as far back as the Neolithic Age. In its earliest stage, Chinese prehistoric paintings were closely related to other primitive crafts, such as pottery, bronze ware, carved jade and lacquer. The line patterns on unearthed pottery and bronze ware resemble ripples, fishing nets, teeth or frogs. The animal and human figures, succinct and vivid, are proofs to the sensitivity of the ancient artists and nature. Chinese painting are even more ancient. Strong visual effects characterize the bright red cliff paintings in southern China that depict scenes of sacrificial rites, production activities and daily life. Before paper was invented, the art of silk painting had been developing. The earliest silk painting was excavated from the Mawangdui Tomb in central China of the Warring States Period (476-221 BC). Silk painting reached its artistic peak in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD25). Grotto murals, wall murals in tomb chambers, stone carvings, brick carvings and lacquer paintings flourished in a period, very important to the development of traditional Chinese painting. The Tang Dynasty (618-907) witnessed the prosperity of figure painting, where the most outstanding painters were Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang. Their paintings, depicting the life of noble women and court ladies, exerted an eternal influence on the development of shi nu hua (painting of beauties), which comprise an important branch of traditional Chinese painting today. Beginning in the Five Dynasties (907-960), each dynasty set up an art academy that gathered together the best painters throughout China. The succeeding Song Dynasty (960-1127) developed such academies into the Imperial Art Academy. During the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) the "Four Great Painters" -- Huang Gongwang, Ni Zan, Wei Zhen and Wang Meng -- represented the highest level of landscape painting. Their works immensely influenced landscape painting of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The Ming Dynasty saw the rise of the Wumen Painting School, which emerged in Suzhou on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The "Four Monk Masters" -- Zhu Da, Shi Tao, Kun Can and Hong Ren -- had their heads shaved to demonstrate their determination not to serve the new dynasty, and they soothed their sadness by painting tranquil nature scenes and traditional art. Yangzhou, which faces Suzhou across the Yangtze River, was home to the "Eight Eccentrics" - the eight painters all with strong characters, proud and aloof, who refused to follow orthodoxy. They used freehand brushwork and broadened the horizon of flower-and-bird painting. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Shanghai, which gave birth to the Shanghai Painting School, had become the most prosperous commercial city and a gathering place for numerous painters. Following the spirit of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, the Shanghai School played a vital role in the transition of Chinese traditional painting from a classical art form to a modern one. The May 4th Movement of 1919, or the New Culture Movement, inspired the Chinese to learn from western art and introduce it to China. Many outstanding painters, led by Xu Beihong, emerged, whose paintings recognized a perfect merging of the merits of both Chinese Art and Western Art styles, absorbing western classicism, romanticism and impressionism. Other great painters of this period include Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong and Zhang Daqian. In the 1980s Chinese oil painting boomed. Then came popular folk painting -- Chinese New Year pictures pinned up on doors, room walls and windows on the Chinese New Year to invite heavenly blessings and ward off disasters and evil spirits - which dates back to the Qing Dynasty and Han Dynasty.Techniques can be divided into two styles: xieyi style and gongbi style. Xieyi, or freehand, is marked by exaggerated forms and freehand brushwork. Gongbi, or meticulous, is characterized by close attention to detail and fine brushwork. Freehand painting generalizes shapes and displays rich brushwork and ink techniques.
   2. The principal forms of traditional Chinese painting are the hanging scroll, album of paintings, fan surface and long horizontal scroll. 3. Traditional Chinese painting can be classified as figure paintings, landscapes and flower-and-bird paintings. Landscapes represent a major category in traditional Chinese painting, mainly depicting the natural scenery of mountains and rivers. The range of subject matter in figure painting was extended far beyond religious themes during the Song Dynasty (960-1127). Landscape painting had already established itself as an independent form of expression by the fourth century and gradually branched out into the two separate styles: blue-and-green landscapes using bright blue, green and red pigments; and ink-and-wash landscapes relied on vivid brushwork and inks. Flower-and-bird painting deviated from decorative art to form its own independent genre around the ninth century.
5. I kind of do.
6. I do because the information some what matches my other sources but I don't because this website has no credentials and it does not have an author.

Source #6

1. http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/arthistory/china.htm
2. Cynthia
3. None. She is a student from a school.
4. Chinese arts are influenced by three major religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Another major influence was nature. The three major kinds of subject they liked to paint were birds, flowers, and landscapes from the countryside. All the religions stress love for nature. All landscape painters tried to get a feeling of the human spirit and the strength of the wind, water, mist and mountains. Painting became an art form more than 2000 years ago then influenced the later painters. Chinese arts come in many different forms, painting, folk arts, silk, calligraphy, pottery, sculpture, metal arts and papercuts. Chinese papercuts were created around the first century in A.D. The Chinese invented paper, which was very important for papercuts. It first started in the Tang Dynasty. People then would hang them up to decorate windows, houses, clothes and even ladies hair. In these thin and fragile papercuts, they would create animals, aerobics, Buddha, opera faces and other subjects. Sculptures were made of many different materials: stone, jade, lacquer, wood, metal, clay, etc. They weren’t only for admiring but they were used as everyday items like a wine bucket, mirrors, pottery, and pendants. Paintings became an art form more than 2000 years ago. The Chinese painted emperors, landscape and zodiac animals, flowers, ladies, and birds. Chinese have three thousand years of history of painting starting from 600 A.D T’ang dynasty to the 20th century.
5. I some what do.
6. I do because my source used a book to help her and I do not because she is only in 3rd grade.

Source #5

1. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/art/chou.htm
2. Dr. Karen Carr
3. Associate Professor of History, Portland State University
4. The first part of the Chou Dynasty is called the Western Chou. During the Western Chou dynasty, art didn't change very much from the Shang Dynasty. People kept on making the bronze sacrificial jars and cups that they made under the Shang emperors. Often the shapes of the jars were more complicated. As more and more people learned to write, it got more common to put long inscriptions on the jars. People made special bronze jars for their ancestors, and wrote long inscriptions about their own lives so their ancestors and descendants would know what they had done. A lot of the jars were in animal shapes like birds and dragons. Then under the Eastern Chou dynasty, beginning about 722 BC, people began to use these bronze jars and cups in their own houses, to show how wealthy and powerful they were. People made whole sets of cups that they could use at big dinner parties in their houses. And they began to make other things out of bronze: bells, mirrors, belt-hooks, candleabras, and weapons, for example. There were some new technical ideas about how to make the bronze jars during the Eastern Chou period as well: for instance, artists began to make the designs on the jars using stamps. And the shapes of the jars became simpler again. Most of the designs were abstract interlacing patterns. Artists began using gold and silver inlays to decorate their patterns. Towards the end of the Eastern Chou period, about 300 BC, artists began to create the first Chinese pictures of whole scenes with several people and a landscape, often hunting scenes.They also continued to make jade ornaments and decorations, in complicated shapes with carving on them .It was also in the Eastern Chou period that people in China first began to make other kinds of art. Especially in southern China, people began to make things out of lacquer (LACK-urr), the colored red sap of the lac tree painted onto wood. You used lacquer to make beautiful light-weight boxes, dishes, and even small statuettes. And at the end of the Eastern Chou period, about 300 BC, people also began to paint scenes with people and landscapes onto silk.
5. I do
6. It has very accurate information. The person who wrote this has a very good credential.

Source #4

1. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/art/shang.htm
2. Dr. Karen Carr
3. Associate Professor of History, Portland State University
4. Shang Dynasty- By about 2000 BC, people in China had learned from the people of West Asia how to make bronze out of copper and tin. They began to make many jars and plaques out of bronze that were used for worshipping their gods. Right from the beginning, these were of very high quality. Some people have thought that the Chinese must have been practicing a long time to make such good bronze pieces. These bronze jars and boxes were cast in molds using the lost-wax technique. Usually they were cast in several different pieces and then soldered (SOD-erd) together with melted bronze or tin. Some of them are plain with just a few lines cut (incised) into them. Other jars and goblets have lots of fancy decoration sticking out all over them. Some are abstract designs, others show plants or animals or mythical monsters like dragons. Some show demons, or human faces.Towards the end of the Shang Dynasty, about 1200 BC, people began to write messages on these bronze jars and cups using the earliest Chinese pictograms. It was probably sometime during the Shang Dynasty that nomadic Indo-Europeans brought the potter's wheel to China. The potter's wheel let artists make pots much more quickly, so that they became cheaper and more widely used.
5. I do
6. This source is like other sources that I have found. The person who wrote this also has a very good credential.

Source #3

1. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/art/stoneage.htm
2. Dr. Karen Carr
3. Associate Professor of History, Portland State University
4. It talks about the first pottery ever made up until now. It shows pictures of the first pottery and also the first painting. It tells you when the first artist put their name on their art work. Stone Age- The earliest form of art we know from China was pottery - clay pitchers and bowls. Most of the best early pottery comes from a place called Ban’po and it is named after that place. This Ban'po pottery was handmade (not on a potter's wheel). At first the polished red pots were plain. Then they were painted with black swirling spirals and geometric shapes, and sometimes with human faces. Later on, the Chinese used a brush to paint their pottery, and the designs became more sophisticated
5. I do
6. The information in the website is almost the same as the other websites that I have found.

Source #2

1. http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/ceramics/early-chinese-ceramics.cfm
2. The Minneapolis Institute of Art
3. They are an institute.
4. Han-notable for its concentration on organized ceramic production. Molds aided tremendously in the manufacture of identical vessels, but the most important technical innovation was the development of lead glazing. These low-fired glazes were colored with copper to produce green, or iron to create yellow or brown. The toxicity of lead however meant that these new glazes were best suited to mortuary pottery rather than daily use. Yueh refers to all southern high-fired celadon wares dating from as early as the Warring States period (480 - 221 B.C.) to the early Sung dynasty (10th century). Celadon is a descriptive term used primarily in the West to describe green glaze porcelaineous wares. Produced with iron oxide as the coloring agent and fired in a reduction atmosphere over 1200oC, Yueh celadon in fact can range from yellow to grey-green, olive, blue, or blue-green, depending on its glaze compound and conditions of firing. T'ang-They invented porcelain, underglaze painted décor, phosphatic glazes, perfected high-fired celadon, and experimented with cobalt blue glazes. Their interest in single color wares, especially white ware, brown ware, celadon, and cobalt blue laid the groundwork for Sung (960-1279) taste in monochrome glazes, refined ceramic shapes, and splashed brown and black wares. Sung-During the Sung period, a unity of the essential components fundamental to the art: vessel shape, potting techniques, glaze, decoration, firing processes, and aesthetic theory were all combined in a high standard of excellence.
5. Yes
6. This source has a lot of information and they are also an institute of art.

Source #1

1. http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0061120-0
2. John Hay and Robert D. Mowry
3. John Hay-Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Robert Mowry-Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
4. The earliest known examples of Chinese painting, or huihua , as it was traditionally defined, date from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), when the walls of temples and official halls were often painted with murals. Their style is closely related to that of the sculptured tomb reliefs of the period. Through the Tang period (618–906), murals and large screens were probably the painters' main formats. Another format, that of the scroll, evolved concurrently and later became much more important. The earliest type of scroll painting was the so-called horizontal handscroll, or shoujuan (shou-chüan). This was also the first form of the book, in use before a folded format. It was developed in the Song dynasty (960–1279). During the Song, vertical scrolls intended for hanging on a wall also became common; they are known as "hanging scrolls," or lizhou (li-chou). Scroll painting was traditionally produced for the exclusive enjoyment of a small intellectual elite.
5. Yes
6. This sounds pretty accurate and also because the people who wrote it have very good credentials.