Describe the type of art work discovered from the ancient Indus sites.
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Explanation:
The forms of art found from various sites of civilisation include sculptures, seals, pottery, gold ornaments, terracotta figures, etc. Their delineation of human and animal figures was highly realistic in nature. Modelling of figures was done in an extremely careful manner.
Answer:
Indus Valley, ancient sites of which have yielded typical archaeological material, extend from Rupar in Ambala district to Harappa in the Montgomery district, and from Mohenjo-Daro in Larkana district to Rangpur and Lothal in Saurashtra- Gujrat. The Indus valley people were prolific in the arts of house building, stone and clay statuary, bronze casting, making of ornaments of gold and silver, and cutting of beads in various semi-precious stones like agate, ivory carving and weaving.
The different type of artifacts found from the civilization are-
Statues of diffdrent material lyk stone, bronze, Terracotta etc, seals, ornaments, toys, pottery, beads etc. I am here mentioning the more important and famous ones.
STATUES-:
Stone statues- Amongst stone statuary, a fine piece of sculpture found at Mohenjo-Daro shows a male bust, having a short beard and close cut moustache, draped in a shawl which is decorated with the trefoil pattern, indicating it to be a statue of a royal priest shown below. But the cream of the statuary is represented by two stone statuettes from Harappa, which would bring credit to any classical sculptor of Greece or Rome. One of the figures is male and the other with heavy hips, probably female. There are two remarkable statuettes found at Harappa, one of which, of red stone, imported from a distance, shows faithful modelling of fleshy parts and the other of dark grey slate, the figure of a male dancer, standing on his right leg, with the left leg raised high, the ancestor of Shiva Nataraja
Bronze statues- the bronze dancing girl from Mohenjo-Daro is a charming little statuette. Loaded profusely with bangles, she stands in a buoyant pose, with rather elongated legs and arms with the head slightly tilted. Another bronze figure, that of a wild buffalo with its massive uplifted head and the ponderous muscles of the body, is suggestive of the primitive vigour of the animal.
Terracotta figures- A number of Terracotta figurines of men and animals from the Indus valley comprises a very remarkable group. A female figure, the great mother goddess, is typical of this civilization. The high crested head dress, the chaplets round the neck, the long series of pendant necklaces and the broad girdle indicate the profound reverence of the artist. Terracotta toys were also produced in great variety, such as rattles, whistles, birds mounted on wheels. The carts are the earliest figured on a stone slab at Ur.
SEALS-:
Other art objects include square steatite seals with vigorous animal figures, like the humped bull with rippling muscles that tell of a vast fund of energy. Of exceptional charm are the hoards of gold necklaces and chest ornaments of elongated beads with domed Hollow terminals. More than 2 dozen Indus valley seals have been found in Mesopotamia at several sites like Ur, Kish etc. Although the trefoil pattern has been found in western asia, it's use on beads is exclusive to the art of Indus valley.
POTTERY-
The Indus pottery was generally wheel-made and was painted red-and-black ware. Sone of it was also 'incised', 'polychrome', and 'glazed'. The glazed Indus pottery is 'the earliest example of its kind in the ancient world', and that too as fine Fabrice. It appeared in Mesopotamia about 1000 B.C. and much later in Egypt. The speciality of this civilization was the great variety of painted decorations and pictorial motifs, including leaf pattern's scales, chequers, lattice work, wave patterns and trees and floral designs.
Of rather unusual artistic interest and exceptional charm is the miniature pottery, about an inch in size and made both of clay and faience. Faience was a special paste made of crushed steatite.
Decorative inlay shells and ivory were extensively used, pieces being fretted out in the form of petals, crosses, crescents, stepped patterns, and heart and eye shapes. The material is enormous and shows that art was pursued with a conscious effort and permeated all aspects of life.
