The Great wave off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai was published in 1832 and is one of many art works with mount Fuji in the background. The style of art is woodblock print.
There were many different styles in chinese art as well. The Shang Dynasty, which was the first dynasty of the Bronze Age had many elaboarate bronze vessels that were used in sacrifices and funerary ceremonies. Hanging and hand scrolls were very popular throughout the dynastys. For instance, Travelers Among Mountains and Streams by Fan Kuan was a hanging scroll that showed chinese landscape and very small people. Chinese artist believe that nature was a better teacher than anything else. Artists would study landscape and effects of sunlight. Terracotta soldiers were another important chinese aspect in art. They were clay figurines that were life sized and meant to protect the leader's grave.
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