Saturday, January 26, 2008

Question #3, January 26 Ancient Near Eastern

Describe the conventions of Sumerian art.
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4 comments:

learn to speak binary. said...

Sumerian figure sculpture was largely for the purpose of spiritual worship; the creation of a statuette as a 'stand-in' for the creator in some ritual of supplication. most of the figures have their hands folded in front of their bodies, many holding offerings of cups or bowls, with their eyes exaggerated and wide open, as though in perpetual wakefulness for their deities. even in ancient Sumer, people were figuring out ways to skirt religious ceremony. the eyes would have been inlaid with semiprecious gems, and usually the heads were made of solid carved stone while the rest of the body was wood.

January 29, 2008 at 3:58 PM
xXSweet_LunaXx said...

The art of the Sumerian civilization was one of enormous power and originality that influenced all of the major cultures of ancient western Asia.Poor in the raw materials of art, the Sumerians traded crops from their fertile soil for the metal, stone, and wood that they required. Clay was their most abundant native material, and its qualities determined their style of baked-mud building and the nature of their fine-textured pottery. A major peak of artistic achievement is represented by a female head, called Lady of Warka (Erech) from about 3200 B.C. (Iraq Mus.). It is carved in white marble with simplicity and subtlety.

Irma Villanueva

January 31, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Driftlikeashes said...

Sumerians used three major conventions: repetition, simplification and abstraction. They also used ritual and personal objects.

February 1, 2008 at 6:54 PM
learn to speak binary. said...

'describe' =/= list.

February 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM

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