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Lesson: The Geographic Influence on Chinese Art

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This lesson will introduce students to the different geographic regions of China. Students will view various paintings and then try to determine what part of China the artist may have been depicting.

Subject Categories: Geography and Climate

Locale: China

Grade Levels: Grades 1-4

Associated Images:
1933.220 Cloudy Mountains
1959.348 Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain
1967.145 Bamboo and Ducks by a Rushing Stream 1127-1279
1971.227 The Peach-Blossom Spring
1982.68.5 Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Man Lies in a Bamboo Grove, 1700s
1997.95 Mountains of the Immortals

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