The Mayan art is a reflection of their style of life and culture. The Mayan art was pronounced, in drawings and paintings in fresh, low and high paper or to the relief in stone, wood, mud, jade, and bone, as well as mud figurines.
Mayan art took shape in the course the Preclassic period (1500 B.C. to 250 A.D.), flowered during the Classic period (c. 200 to 900 AD), and went through a Postclassic phase until the upheavals of the sixteenth century destroyed courtly culture and put an end to a great artistic tradition. The Olmecs, Teotihuacan and the Toltecs have all influenced Mayan art. Traditional art forms have mainly survived in weaving and the design of peasant houses.
The technical process of metals was well-known, but the Mayan only use it in adornments. Music was very appreciated and is theater work tests, that they were carried out in the public ceremonies.
Classic Mayan great art is expressed in the media full-round sculpture, in relief carvings in stone and on wooden lintels, stucco sculptures and in wall painting. Human figures of rulers, priests, soldiers, and captives sometimes were realistically portrayed. A great deal of Mayan art also was bound up with god representations and with hieroglyphic writing.
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