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Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty,
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- Similarly, in the 19th and 20th centuries the West has had huge impacts on Eastern art with originally western ideas like Communism and Post-Modernism exerting a powerful influence.
- Later, African sculptures were taken up by Picasso and to some extent by Matisse.
- Thus, Japanese woodblock prints (themselves influenced by Western Renaissance draftsmanship) had an immense influence on impressionism and subsequent development.
- Increasing global interaction during this time saw an equivalent influence of other cultures into Western art.
- Thus the parameters of Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, etc. cannot be maintained very much beyond the time of their invention.
- The history of 20th-century art is a narrative of endless possibilities and the search for new standards, each being torn down in succession by the next.
- The late 19th century then saw a host of artistic movements, such as academic art, Symbolism, impressionism and fauvism among others.
- This led to Romantic rejections of this in favor of pictures of the emotional side and individuality of humans, exemplified in the novels of Goethe.
- The western Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century saw artistic depictions of physical and rational certainties of the clockwork universe, as well as politically revolutionary visions of a post-monarchist world, such as Blake's portrayal of Newton as a divine geometer, or David's propagandistic paintings.
- Woodblock printing became important in Japan after the 17th century.
- Japan names its styles after imperial dynasties too, and also saw much interplay between the styles of calligraphy and painting.
- So, for example, Tang dynasty paintings are monochromatic and sparse, emphasizing idealized landscapes, but Ming dynasty paintings are busy and colorful, and focus on telling stories via setting and composition.
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- Chinese styles vary greatly from era to era and each one is traditionally named after the ruling dynasty.
- China saw the flourishing of many art forms: jade carving, bronzework, pottery (including the stunning terracotta army of Emperor Qin), poetry, calligraphy, music, painting, drama, fiction, etc.
- India and Tibet saw emphasis on painted sculptures and dance, while religious painting borrowed many conventions from sculpture and tended to bright contrasting colors with emphasis on outlines.
- Further east, religion dominated artistic styles and forms too.
- In the east, Islamic art's rejection of iconography led to emphasis on geometric patterns, calligraphy, and architecture.
- reflected in the corporeality of the human body, and development of a systematic method of graphical perspective to depict recession in a three-dimensional picture space.
- Renaissance art had a greatly increased emphasis on the realistic depiction of the material world, and the place of humans in it,
- Nevertheless, a classical realist tradition persisted in small Byzantine works, and realism steadily grew in the art of Catholic Europe.
- or glass in mosaics or windows, which also presented figures in idealized, patterned (flat) forms.
- and used styles that showed the higher glory of a heavenly world, such as the use of gold in the background of paintings,
- In Byzantine and Medieval art of the Western Middle Ages, much art focused on the expression of subjects about biblical and religious culture,
- For example, this period of Greek art saw a veneration of the human physical form and the development of equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty, and anatomically correct proportions.
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- Some also have provided the first records of how artists worked.
- Because of the size and duration of these civilizations, more of their art works have survived and more of their influence has been transmitted to other cultures and later times.
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- Each of these centers of early civilization developed a unique and characteristic style in its art.
- India, China, Ancient Greece, Rome, as well as Inca, Maya, and Olmec.
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- Many great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of the great ancient civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia,
- in addition to the oldest musical instruments unearthed so far, with the artifacts dating between 43.000 and 35.000 BC, so being the first centre of human art.
- where the oldest non-stationary works of human art yet discovered were found, in the form of carved animal and humanoid figurines,
- The first undisputed sculptures and similar art pieces, like the Venus of Hohle Fels, are the numerous objects found at the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site,
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- but the precise meaning of such art is often disputed because so little is known about the cultures that produced them.
- Sculptures, cave paintings, rock paintings and petroglyphs from the Upper Paleolithic dating to roughly 40,000 years ago have been found,
- The oldest piece of art found in Europe is the Riesenhirschknochen der Einhornhöhle, dating back 51,000 years and made by Neanderthals.
- Containers that may have been used to hold paints have been found dating as far back as 100,000 years.
- A series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.
- A series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave.
- A set of eight 130,000 years old white-tailed eagle talons bear cut marks and abrasion that indicate manipulation by neanderthals, possibly for using it as jewelry.
- A shell engraved by Homo erectus was determined to be between 430,000 and 540,000 years old.
- Main article: History of art