Title: Zhou Dynasty Art: Characteristics, Types
Headings: Zhou Dynasty Art (1050-221 BCE)
History, Types and Characteristics

Zhou Dynasty Art (1050-221 BCE)
History, Types and Characteristics
Content: Ceramic art also continued to flourish, and was further extended and refined during the Warring States period and the era of Han Dynasty Art (206 BCE - 220 CE). As the urban and commercial infrastructure improved, architecture became more important, although most Zhou-style buildings have long since disappeared. It was also during the Zhou era that Nail Art first appeared in China. Painting
The same applies to painting, as - apart from a few works on silk - few pictures have survived from the Zhou era. We are left only with written descriptions of works, which featured principally figure painting and portrait art, as well as some historical scenes. Even so, the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE) was an important watershed in Chinese art, since it was the first time that Chinese painters began to represent the world around them. Pottery painting and mural painting on tomb walls were two common types of painting, while primitive ink and wash painting was performed on silk. The closely related art of Chinese writing - known as calligraphy - had first appeared during the Shang era and now blossomed in the Zhou regime, during which its main forms were the jiaguwen (chia-ku-wen) bone-and-shell script, and the jinwen (chin-wen) bronze script. These scripts, named after the materials upon which they were inscribed, remained in fashion until the beginning of Qin Dynasty art in the 3rd century BCE. Lacquering
Chinese lacquerware (including gold and silver inlays) was also fully developed during the Zhou Dynasty.