Arts is used to present ideas of people and it provides all expression of artist. There are many artists of today’s world that describe their view of earth through their art. These arts consist of paintings, sketching, or coloring but in past there was time of ancient artz, and in this art people used to represent their culture and civilization through art. This type of art is totally different from our art because at that time there were no painting tools and chart papers. People used do to art in caves and mountains letting other people know about their culture. In this blog, we will discuss some different types of ancient artz that represent culture of different civilizations.
What is ancient artz
Arts of our words represent ideas of artists and they use modern tools and techniques to draw those arts but in old age, ancient artz represent culture of that civilization. There are only few artists who draw arts that represent their ideas, most of the drawings that are discovered nowadays represent their wars and culture. Those ancient arts consist of their jewelry, stories and sculpture of their people. Their arts are also defined by their history. These arts are history of their civilization. They did not make these drawings to impress people or show their skills but they drew all these arts so that their children would study them and follow their path.
The concept of ancient artz started at the time of Egypt civilization when their pharaoh used their people to draw their culture on large stones and mountains. At that time there was no technology and tools so people used their hands and energy to curve these mountains and make different designs. The most two famous civilizations that use arts to represent their culture are Egypt and Vikings and now all the history that we get about these civilizations is through their arts. It is very clear that they do not make art to win competitions their art is to understand their history for upcoming generations.
How ancient artz were made?
Now a day’s art is very simple and it has traveled through three generations first is ancient second is paper painting and the most advanced is online graphics using many artificial tools. Arts is very easy we have all tools and ways to draw. Artist uses different papers and different paints to show their art but ancient artz is not that easy. At that time there were no papers and paints. Their scholars did not have any facilities to make these drawings and the following are some ways that show techniques used by people at that time:
- Stone: One of the oldest ways of art was stone art because at that time there were no charts paper and people did not have any place to make their art so they started carving stones and mountains and showing different works of art. The only tools that were available that time were hammers and axes and they use to cut these stones and make different shapes this type of art was very hardworking and time consuming but there are many famous stones that show people of that time were so hardworking.
- Clay: Another type of famous art is clay art and in this type of art people use it to write poetry and history of their civilization. After wars, there were people appointed that were used to write history on clay and also used many symbols that represent their men and weapons. This is because this type of art is not as difficult as stone and rock so this is the reason clay is used to write history.
- Metal: This type of art is used to make hardware objects such as jewelry and weapons and they require special teams and workers to make these objects. For weapons, they have special military team and they make different weapons after melting metals and that weapon represents their army. For jewelry and other small object there are different women who run their business. These objects of ancient artz are very different from today’s objects that are available in market.
- Woods: Another very famous type of art is done in wood and in this type of art people use different parts of wood to make different objects. People also paint on trees to show their area and make many small objects and toys by using moods. This type of art is not difficult because it does not require much force and people.
- Face paints and tattoos: In this type of art people use different liquids and inks to make tattoos on their face and body. This is done because when they go on wars it becomes very difficult to understand which is your people. For this reason, they use different paints on their face with different colors.
Strategies in ancient artz
These ancient artz are not simple and they require different strategies because these arts cannot be made with one person they require labors to make one painting. At that time, there were no artificial pints and there were original paints and these paints were made by crushing rocks and plants. These are permanent colors and they are used for different purposes. They do not have any paint brush to paint things. They also used wood and sticks to paint different objects.
Most of the ancient arts are done in caves and mountains and for this purpose, it requires large team to work together. This is the reason at that time there was no single famous artist most of the drawings were done in groups and it required a special person who had experience in arts and handling teams to make all these projects. Most of the work is done by labors but these labors are handled by a special person who is skillful.
Different types of old arts
Whenever we go to museum we can see different types of arts and history of old people. Much art is protected and most of the art is lost but still, we have many different arts that represent the old history of ancient artz and we will discuss some of the most famous arts of old age. Following are some different types of ancient art that are found in museums and also their history:
There are different types of sculptures that are found in museums that display ancient artz. These sculptures are just sketches of today’s world. Now we draw sketches and in ancient times they made sculptures. These are their gods, kings or famous people and these are made with heavy stones. Most famous sculptures that are found are Egyptian Gods and they are made with different stones and marble that show their God. These sculptures are very attractive and beautiful and with all latest technology, it is very difficult to match the professionalism of previous artists.
There are many poetries that are made by travelers who have visit many different places. Thee poetry is used to explain culture of different kingdoms and also explain belief of different people on different Gods. These poetries are written on wood and cloth and they represent all meaning of life observe by writers.
There are also many ancient mosaics and these are special designs that are used to decorate houses and places. These are stones which are found by different people and special teams work on these stones to make different designs to decorate houses of kings. These are used to decorate walls and floors and they require skillful team because it is very difficult to apply designs on stone and in museums we can find many decorated stones that show ancient designs of palaces of that time.
Jewelry is also considered as ancient arts because at that time these jewelries are not worn to show fashion but they also show religion. These are made with special stones and metals and each jewelry represents different meanings. Kings wear more jewelry than other people. There are fixed designs of jewelry for royal guards so that all other people can recognize them. So these jewelries are used to show position and status of different people.
There are also many different cave paintings that show skills of painters of that time. These paints are usually made with stones and inks. In caves, we can find many arts such as animals, kings and also some designs. When there were wars these cave paintings were also done to show signals to other people. These designs consist of different messаges and these messаges can only be understood by their own people.
If someone wants to see real ancient artz they should see ancient pyramids that are in Egypt. There are many pyramids in Egypt and each one shows different gods. These are made with heavy stones and almost it requires more than thousands of people to make one pyramid. In one pyramid we can find all types of art because its floor is decorated they have different structures of Gods they have different jewelry and complete structure of pyramid is itself art. These are some different types of art that show history of that people and also show beauty of ancient art.
Difficulties in Ancient Art
If we see artists of this generation we can see that it is very easy for them because it only takes skills and talent to be good artists but in ancient artz there were many difficulties. At that time there were no tools for art and people had to make every tool by themselves for example, if they wanted to make paint they had to find some special plants and rocks. Their arts were also not easy and they could not be made by single person they needed complete labor and it became very expensive.
In Egypt most of the art is done by slaves and they did not get anything in return and one of the most important difficulties is that most of the art is done on wood and clay and when there are heavy rains and winds it affects their art and they have to make complete new project. At that time there was no technology and machines so people carried all the stones with their hands it took so much time to do one project. These are some difficulties in ancient artz but with all these difficulties people still manage to display their history through art.
Conclusion
If we want to discover the old world, we can discover that through arts. Arts is used to present ideas of people and how they see earth. The art of our words represents ideas of artists and they use modern tools and techniques to draw those arts but ancient artz there are many different works of art that show their history. Some of the most famous types of art that we can see to read their history are sculptures of their kings, some old poetries and many temples that consist of all types of old art.
There were very less resources at that time because they are no tools and machines. This is the reason ancient art had many difficulties such as less resources, less labor and weather issues. To manage these resources people, use stones, metals and clay to show their art. Overall, we can say that ancient art is not done to show skills it was done to show history so if we want to learn history we should understand their art.