ART TRADITIONS

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CHAPTER 12
ART TRADITIONS FROMAROUND THE WORLD
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LESSON 1 PREHISTORIC ART

• PALEOLITHIC PERIOD
• ? Old Stone Age
• ? 2 million years ago
• ? Ended with the close of the last ice age about
  13,000 B.C.
• Cave paintings of Altamira, Spain (The Hall of
  the Bulls) and Lascaux, France
• NEOLITHIC PERIOD
• ? New Stone Age
• ? 7000 2000 B.C.
• ? Developed agriculture, stone tools
• ? Megaliths
• ? Stonehenge ? Pg. 348
• ? Built around 2000 B.C.
• ? Post and lintel construction
• ? Upright slabs ? posts
• ? Horizontal supports ? lintels
• ? Peaceful balance upset by population explosion,
  4 ancient civilizations emerged.

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LESSON 1 PREHISTORIC ART
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• MESOPOTAMIA
• Tigris Euphrates fertile crescent
• People lived in city-states
• Each city ruled by monarch
• Today this land is Syria and Iraq
• SUMERIANS
• First dominant group
• Cuneiform
• Developed a system of writing using wedge-shaped
• characters
• Stood for ideas and concepts
• Written on clay tablets
• Sculptures
• Depicted figures lifelike and realistic way
• Ziggurats ? stepped mountains made of
  brick-covered earth

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LESSON 2 ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• INDIA
• ? Influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism
• ? Began about 2000 B.C.
• ? Architecture
• ? Stupas
• ? Beehive shaped domed places of worship.
• ? Statues inside, people gather outside around
  it.
• ? Hinduism prevailed
• ? 3 main Hindu gods ? Brahma, the Creator
  Vishnu,
• the Preserver Shiva, the Destroyer.
• ? Fired clay brick structures
• ? Multi-storied houses
• ? Drainage systems
• ? Soapstone relief carvings ? personal seal

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LESSON 2 ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
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• CHINA
• Y Oldest continuing culture in the worlds
• Y Paper
• Y Porcelain (ceramics)
• Y Woodblock printing
• Y Compass and gunpowder
• Y Dynasty
• Y Single family provided succession of rulers
• Y Shang, Han, Ming

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• CHINA
• Y Buddhism
• Y First to consider picture painting
• Y Artists were also scholars who wrote poems in
  beautiful writing ? calligraphy
• Y Scrolls ? long roll of parchment or silk
• Y Hung on walls or read.
• Y By 1100 landscapes were main themes of
  paintings.
• Y Sculpture
• Y Ceramic objects of porcelain ? fine ground
  white clay ? kaolin
• Y Ming dynasty ceramics reached its peak

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• JAPAN
• Traces of Korean, Chinese other Asian
  influences
• 594 first art object of modern times
• Temples ? made from wood due to volcanic rock of
  
• their soil.
• Intricately built and elaborately decorated
• Pagoda ? tower of several stories with roofs
  curving
• slightly upward at the edges
• Painting
• Yamato-e
• Screen paintings in sections used to divide
  interiors
• of homes
• Ukiyo-e Pictures of a floating world
• To meet the demand for these kinds of paintings
• they developed printing
• Woodblock printing
• Making prints by carving images on blocks of
• wood inexpensive way of reproducing many print
• of one image

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The Palette of King Narmer, c. 3100-3000 BCE,
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