Prehistoric and ancient arts (Continue)

pictographs
definition : 
•“Pictograph” / “pictogram” came from two Latin words which are “pictus” (painting) and “graph” / “gram” (drawn or written).

•Pictograph that represents one particular idea usually referred as “ideogram”.

Types of pictographs :
•Most artworks were created inside rock shelters or deep caves.
•Parietal art:
-Abstract symbols
-Hand stencils (handprints, palm prints)
-Rock engravings (painted, unpainted)
-Cave painting (monochrome, polychrome)
characteristics :
•Characterized by their stereotyped execution, 
- Standardized at least within their group or locality.

examples :
•Red- ochre blobs among the El Castillo Cave paintings
-Upper paleolithic
-Have been uranium/ thorium dated which is from 39, 000 BCE
-About the time that anatomically modern man first set foot in europe


Purpose, function or idea behind pictographs:

•Describes an image, sign or symbol (to express idea or information).
•Paintings of animals or hunting scenes may also have been carefully arranged to communicate some kind of message.
•Served as an early forerunner of neolithic written languages:
-Sumerian cuneiforms (wedge- shaped symbols)
-Egyption hieroglyphs
•Each of them have their own meaning and interpretation.
•Not “art for art’s sake” but means of expression with a shamantic, ceremonial and hunting function.

ANCIENT


EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT ARTS :

•EGYPTIAN ARTS
•ROMAN ARTS
•CHINESE ARTS
•EARLY BUDDHIST ARTS
•GREEK AND HELLENISTIC ARTS
•BYZANTINE ARTS

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