Awesome Ancient Art
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Only AAA ITT.
>>2306422
Oh, and post the date/culture if you know it. The head in the first post is 1200-900 BCE, Olmec.
Pic related is 1400–400 BCE, Olmec.
1345 BC: by Thutmose, ancient Egypt
>>2306422
2nd – 3rd century CE, Gandhara
an example of greco-buddhist art
1st century AD, Roman
Neat idea for a thread. I think this is a nice way to get people to look at different types of art and cultures. I find I can relate more to ancient cultures when I look at their art.
Attaching the Lion-man sculpture. It's a favourite of mine...it was carved from a woolly mammoth tusk using a flint stone knife, and features an extinct type of lion's head on top of a person. That alone is super cool, but the fact that it is 40,000 years old just blows my mind entirely. It is literally older than cave paintings. I just try to imagine all those generations in 40k years and I simply can't comprehend that amount of time. And yet back then there was some primitive culture that was able to sculpt an amazing image like this. The person that made this had feelings, a family, a life. Biologically they were the same as someone today, they could even have been a genius, it is just that they happened to be born in a different time. Their name and history is gone, but their art remains. There's something very powerful in that I think. I'm glad to be a part of the artistic heritage, even if I myself won't contribute anything of value I do feel a connection to others before me who have gone down a similar road.
>>2306422
between 27 BC and 68 AD, Roman
though some support a date as early as 200 BC.
>>2306447
Crazy how something done one and a half thousand years before Michelangelo or Bernini could stand up next to them perhaps even surpassing them. And for all that we can do today with modern technology and skills, we simply can't come even close to what ancients did with simple tools and no electricity.
100-500 CE, Moche culture
>>2306422
dogu statue, 1000-400 BC, Jomon (Japan)
https://www.asia.si.edu/collections/aneareast_highlights.asp
>>2306422
>Only AAA
gamergate sissy boi detected
1400-1700 AD, Mississippian culture
>>2306476
>AAA
>Awesome Ancient Art
are you retarded?
300-600 AD, Nazca
>>2306480
nice coverup sissy boi
>>2306471
I like the cactrot Haniwa, also. They make me laugh.
Somebody here loves s./central american ceramic vessels. I have a thing for zoomorphic objects. I feel like there's another potter/sculptor on this board.
>>2306463
This is my favorite sculpture.
>>2306497
>I feel like there's another potter/sculptor on this board.
Aye.
I've been making a lot of face jugs and face mugs, and find ancient sculpture is a pretty good reference for stylized faces.
>>2306505
Oh, you're that guy. Hey. How's your gf? I'm still jealous. That thread died before you uploaded any glaze-fired shots.
>>2306511
We've been cranking out face mugs for Christmas. I'll start a ceramic general thread and post the fired work/new stuff.
>>2306577
Ah. I like how they came out! Fun stuff.
back on topic
30,000 BC, Aurignacian
thirty
fucking
thousand
B C
>>2306449
well I mean technically speaking with our 3d printers, we can literally print out things of exact quality.
>>2306725
We can print copies of existing things but not create original works that are of equal skill/beauty. Also obviously it's different when it's just some printed plastic. That's like saying "technically we can paint as well as Sargent, because we can use an inkjet printer to print his artwork". It makes no sense.
>>2306715
Are those the paintings from the Herzog film? That one was really interesting.
Seated Guanyin Bodhisattva 11th-12th century CE, China
>>2306999
This one is perfection. I even did a painting based on it a while back.
>>2307010
post said painting
The book of Kells is kool
>>2307705
He's good, but the tradition and goals and aesthetics he follows is very different from that of the Greeks or Renaissance/Baroque sculptors. It's comparing apples and oranges. It's similar to how Chuck Close and Rembrandt are not doing the same thing at all.
>>2307723
Well, it's certainly not idealised in the same way as classical roman sculpture (its the opposite), but the acheivement in terms of technique, craftsmanship and effort is totally comparable.
That said, thinking about it, Mueck's work will deteriorate and disappear, whereas those marble sculptures will last a good god damn while. That's too bad.
I have a bunch of Ancient Nigeria and Benin stuff I used as reference for a project a while back.
They date from 1100-1500 A.
1100-1500 AD.
maybe not that ancient but still qualifies. Some old viking art
>>2307848
They loved their wood carvings.
>>2307017
got bigger ress of this kind of work?
does this counts?
hope it does, btw im this requester
Venus von Willendorf - 29.500 years old
let that sink in for a moment.
the way she's holding her breasts, that's pure porn.
I saw it in the natural history museum - it's tiny
>>2306481
I know at least ONE ancient citizen laughed their ass off to this
>>2308448
Cartoon lobsters and miles of perfect lines in the ground. Nazca people were some cool dudes.
This one is beautiful, and 4500 years old. 4500!!! Wrap your heads around that.
>>2308480
Yup, far from being considered ancient, but Bernini is still the GOAT sculptor and always appreciated in art threads.
>>2308512
> Dem nephratities
Hnng
>>2307848
Fuck, I just wrote a long post, intending to post that particular picture. But yes, I love norse carvings and patterns, particularly those from the Urnes stave church.
2090 BC, Mesopotamian
