It is interesting to note that both the potter’s wheel and theĬart wheel, made their first appearance around 3500 BC However, no signatures were ever found bearing the name Love of beauty, a sense of order, and power of hierarchy, Reflected on their city gates, palace complexes and ziggurats,Īre scenes of both victorious wars and their prosperity!Īrt was then highly functional and repetitive depicting Mesopotamian Art in general glorified their powerful rulers

When major civilizations like the Sumerian, Akkadian,īabylonian, Hitties, Assyrian, and the Persians, in thisĬhronological sequence, contributed to Art History! Mesopotamian Civilization as the source of our earliest God, in a revolutionary religious reform! (Judaism) When Patriarch Abraham established the worship of a Single It was a period when writing got invented in its earliest Mesopotamia, where the Sumerians built their first cities,Īs the earliest River Valley Civilization around 3500 BC! The birth of civilization has been traced to Southern Where the Tigress and the Euphrates Rivers flow, to theĪncient Civilization of the Sumerians! (3500-2300BC) Let us now travel fast forward on our magic carpet to reach Rocks and raised stone edifices, defying marauding Time! Man’s everlasting quest for immortality lies etched on Right from the pre-historic days, up to our modern times! This type of post and lintel structure is also found in ancientĮgyptian architecture, and later in Greece as its specialĪrt History spans the entire history of mankind, With these nomads settling down in small communities,Īrt became mystical and monumental in range Īs seen in the megalithic (large stone) structures of the Pieced together by scholars with the help of science andĭuring the Neolithic Period beginning around 8,000BC,Īncient man became gradually sedentary, engaging in The Story of Art therefore begins before recorded History, Those nomadic tribes who were hunter-gatherers living in The cave paintings of Chauvet, Cosquer, and Lascaux, dateĭrawn by nameless and faceless people who emerged from Of large wild animals like horses, antelopes and bison īearing witness to the story of gradual human evolution! In some 350 caves of France and Spain are seen paintings Long before the evolution of any proper coherent speech When early humans left their creative imprints on rock Right into the ancient Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Let us take a ride on the magic carpet of History, down Therefore, knowing these aspects becomes necessary to I commence this story from its earliest days, and mention thoseĪncient Civilizations which influenced Art in many ways.Īrt has been greatly influenced by religion, culture and history The progress of his mind, taste and skill, which has graduallyįinding ultimate expression in his multi-faceted creations! Study of Art History is a study of man’s creative evolution Ī progress of his wakened consciousness, and a restless Of reality, and not simply out of a void! Who recreates by a selective rearrangement of the elements Thanks, -RajĪrt over the centuries has been variously defined,īut an all embracing definition is rather hard to find!Īyn Rand defined Art as a recreation of reality according toĪrtist’s values, his view of existence, and choice

Hope you find this interesting to read! Sorry for the length! Kindly give Comments after you have managed to read the entire portion in your spare time. Here I have used only a portion of my personal notes. This topic for a long time in a simplified form! Egyptian Art andĪrchitecture influenced the Early Greeks, who in turn influenced the Romans and other civilizations! Initially Art and architecture, religion and culture, were all closely inter-related! Real distinction emerged with the Italian Renaissance. Change country: -Select- Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belize Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Canada Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) French Guiana Georgia Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq Israel Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Martinique Mexico Mongolia Montserrat Nepal Netherlands Antilles Nicaragua Oman Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Puerto Rico Qatar Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Suriname Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands United Arab Emirates United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.S.Dear Poet Friends, being fond of Art, I wanted to compose on

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