CHAPTER CHAPTER 1212

ART TRADITIONSART TRADITIONSFROMFROM

AROUND THE WORLDAROUND THE WORLD

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.

LESSON 1LESSON 1PREHISTORIC ARTPREHISTORIC ART

LESSON 1LESSON 1PREHISTORIC ARTPREHISTORIC ART

LESSON 1LESSON 1PREHISTORIC ARTPREHISTORIC ART

LESSON 1LESSON 1PREHISTORIC ARTPREHISTORIC ART

MESOPOTAMIAMESOPOTAMIA•Tigris & Euphrates – fertile crescent•People lived in city-states•Each city ruled by monarch•Today this land is Syria and IraqSUMERIANS •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 wayZiggurats stepped mountains made of brick-covered earth

INDIAINDIA 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

LESSON 2 LESSON 2 ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASTART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

LESSON 2 LESSON 2 ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASTART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

LESSON 2 LESSON 2 ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASTART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

CHINACHINAYY Oldest continuing culture in the worlds

YY Paper

YY Porcelain (ceramics)

YY Woodblock printing

YY Compass and gunpowder

YY Dynasty

YY Single family provided succession of rulers

YY Shang, Han, Ming

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

JAPANJAPAN 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

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