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Excerpt: Discovering Inuit Stone Sculpture. When most people think about stone sculptures, it’s probably giant pieces of abstract art located outside large buildings or perhaps inside a famous art gallery or museum. Sometimes people think of stone sculptures as the ancient Roman or Greek mythological characters like Apollo, Venus or Zeus. For contemporary fine art, many see stone sculpture only for serious collectors or for the rich and famous to display in their well kept mansions. Most individuals, even avid art fans, rarely think about or…
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Discovering Inuit Stone Sculpture
June 18th, 2010How To Know If Inuit Or Native American Art Is Real?
June 18th, 2010Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: Both Inuit Eskimo art and Native American art have gained international recognition as valuable art forms over the past few decades. But, the rising popularity of both Inuit Eskimo art and Native American art has resulted in the increased proliferation of imitations and mass-produced reproductions of original Native arts. Some obvious fakes are made in Asia from molds where the finished pieces are forms of plastic, resin or ceramic. Other fakes are really made of cast stone simulating actual Inuit Eskimo art carvings and wood…
Discover The Origins Of Native American Art
April 28th, 2010Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: Discover The Origins Of Native American Art. Native American people represent only 1% of the population in the United States today even though they once dominated the entire North American continent. While many of these native groups have almost disappeared along with their culture, some of their beautiful art remains. Below is a discussion of five types of Native American art you might like to display in your home or give as an unusual gift. Southwestern Kachinas Kachinas are dolls which were created as representations of spirits or entities from the culture’s spiritual beliefs. After being crated, they were given to the…
Mayan Art
April 28th, 2010Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: 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…
