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Sumerian Art

Sumerian Art. By: K atie K ozy. Art. Sumerian art is mainly about exploring and supporting the relationships between people, gods, plants, and animals Sumerian art is represented in many ways Almost all Sumerian sculptures served as a dormant or ritual equipment for the temples. Clay.

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Sumerian Art

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  1. Sumerian Art By: Katie Kozy

  2. Art • Sumerian art is mainly about exploring and supporting the relationships between people, gods, plants, and animals • Sumerian art is represented in many ways • Almost all Sumerian sculptures served as a dormant or ritual equipment for the temples

  3. Clay • Clay was common in west Asia and stone was not, most of the earliest statues were made out of clay • Its hard to make sharp edges when working with clay, most of west Asia sculptures looked round and soft • When they started carving with stone the kept this round, soft look

  4. Art • Sumerian craftsmanship was of marked excellence from very early times • They have the smooth perfection and idealized features of the classical period of Sumerian art • Painting and sculpture were the main medians used and art was primarily used for religious purposes

  5. Created Art • A sculpture was set upon a mound and the platform built to support its crowning shrine was 40 feet high • Sumerian art had 3-dimentional statues made of marble with an obvious hierarchy • Some Sumerian portraits are in marble and others were in black-grey diorite

  6. Art • Invasions of Semitic peoples, present day Iran and Syria, ended the last Sumerian golden age • Stone, wood, and metal had to be imported into Sumer • The vast royal cemetery at UR has yielded many masterpieces of Sumerian art • Outstanding among these are a wooden harp detailed with gold and mosaic inlay picturing mythological scenes on the sound box

  7. Created Art • The tallest statues of the vegetation god almost about 30 inches in height • A number of statues and sculptures were religious and depicted the mother goddess

  8. More About Clay • Sumerian art was complex and ornate with clay being the most abundantly used material • Clay’s qualities determined their style of baked-mud building and the nature of their fine textured pottery • Clay was their most abundant material

  9. Art • Excavations have unearthed great skill and artistry in Sumerian art • Sumerian art can easily be separated into ritual objects, state objects, and personal objects • Sumerian art forms reflect on the culture and lifestyle

  10. More facts about art • At Lagash a strongly modeled head of stone portraits a Sumerian man • Its large and widely spaced features set on a heavy round skull are revealed in relief and inlay work of the period • Among the other Sumerian art, one of the most sophisticated was the cylinder seal

  11. Different Kinds Of Art • With the assent to power Sargon of Akkad Sumerian art reached new heights of expression particularly in sculpture • The Ziggurat Temple form was the most striking architectural achievement of the Sumerians • One Ziggurat at Erech extended over an area of half a million square feet

  12. Credits • Education. Yahoo • Cristalinks.com • Historyforkids.org • Ezineathicles.com • Google images

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