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Pre-Columbian America .

Pre-Columbian America . The art . Artistic culture of the classical period .

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Pre-Columbian America .

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  1. Pre-Columbian America. The art.

  2. Artisticculture of the classical period. The most ancient civilization of pre-Columbian America was the Olmec culture, living on the Gulf Coast in the II-I millennium BC.Olmec had cult centers and stepped pyramids, stone sculpture, objects of applied art, hieroglyphic writing, ritual calendar. Olmec architecture remained badly, because as a building material there were used  soil and rubble, covered with a plaster. The sculpture of Olmec, presented by huge stone heads up to 3m, became famous . Till our days it is not right known their destination, but probablythey had cult character. Today these giant heads, finded during researches, impress people.

  3. The most huge architectural cunstruction-piramide of The Sun (Mexico) has a heigh of 64,6 m at the present time (probably in the past it was heigher). The piramide of the Sun consists of four big truncated piramides substituted one onother. There is a system of gradually tapering rampantson the one of piramide’s sides wich conduct it to the sanctuary of the church.

  4. Ancient America. The history of Art Pre-Columbian America has more than 25 centuries. It was the result of mutual influence of more or less developed cultures of different nations: the Olmecs, Mayas, Toltecs, Aztecs and Incas. Some of these cultures were in full bloom, such as the Aztec culture or the culture of the Inca Empire (modern Peru): Both of them were destroyed by the Spaniards in the XVI century. Other cultures have either disappeared or were in decline , such as the Olmec culture, who lived on the Gulf Coast, as well as Mayan and Toltec cultures that lived in the Yucatan peninsula in western Mexico.

  5. Mayan pyramids. TheMayan culture is construcded with the knoweldge of the laws of the changing of the year’s seasons and the movement of the planets. The Maya were the most skilled architects and masons. They have mastered the two basic techniques of building art: building codes that allowed you to create ceilings are very large area, and the use of cement, which allowed to erect a strong wall, even in medium-sized stones.Starting from the IX century, the Maya have overcome the dominance of the Toltecs, but continued to build large structures like the temple-pyramids of Chichen Itza.

  6. Churche-piramideChichen Itza, Mayan arts in the period of Toltec domination, 950-1500 years, Yucatan, Mexico

  7. Aztec feather products. The Aztecs conquered all the nations of Central America and robbed them in all respects. They took a monumental sculptural forms of the Maya and Toltec, but they paid a particular attention to the individual shape of the characters. The Aztecs were both good artists and craftsmen, doing amazing and beautiful things from so strange material like feathers. In 1519 during the first landing of the Spaniards, the emperor Montezuma, trying to make with them trading relations,  presented to Hernando Cortes amazing crowns and shields made ​​from feathers. a fan

  8. Gold, silver and pottery of the Incas. The head of the Inca Empire was the ruler, worshiped under the name of the Son of the Sun. Some cities, built in inaccessible places, as in the secret citadel of Machu Picchu in the Andes, confirm the gift of Incas to overcome natural disasters. Handicraft art, too, reached a high level of technology, such as the works of gold, silver or bronze.

  9. WhenSpanishshipsappearedoffthecoastoftheNewWorld, inthisgreatcontinentlivedmanyIndiantribesandnationalitieswithdifferentlevelsofdevelopment.ThesmallregionsoftheWesternHemisphere - inMesoamerica(Mexico, Guatemala, ElSalvador, Honduras), andintheAndes (Bolivia, Peru) - SpaniardsmetwithIndiancivilizationahighlevel. The Indians of Peru had no written language, and in Central America may already be 3000 years ago was established the local Indian writing. Maya, the Aztecs left the codes that contain information of the Mexican state in pre-Columbian period. In the desert of Nazca (Peru) we found large images ( the 120-meter bird, 200-foot lizard, a monkey-giant).

  10. The Aztecs took over from the Toltecs, not only technique and art form, but also gods. So Quetzalcoatl, the god of vegetation and the return of spring, was the Aztec god of the priests, religious thought and art. Statue of the god Quetzalcoatl art of the Aztecs, the beginning of of the XVI century, red-grade porphyry, 44 cm (height), Museum of Man, Paris

  11. The presentation is made by V. Harutyunyan, A. Labo, D. Popov.

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