1. CHAPTER 12
ART TRADITIONS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD

2. 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.

3. LESSON 1
PREHISTORIC ART

4. LESSON 1
PREHISTORIC ART

5. LESSON 1
PREHISTORIC ART

6. 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

11. ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
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

12. ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
LESSON 2
ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

13. ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
LESSON 2
ART OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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