The Art of South America I always felt somehow alien. Arts of Africa, perhaps even more fantastic, but somehow it is more commonly associated with the planet Earth.
Perhaps nowhere in the world of art was not given such great importance in ancient South America, where "it was ... and science, and religion, and literature, and writing, and adornment of life ... His spirit was embodied in the image of the Aztec god of music Shochipilli. Frozen in a tense position with an ecstatic expression on his face, adorned with symbols and decorative elements, like a magician immersed in a trance - a god of art could emerge only from the people for whom the idea of beauty was inextricably linked to the idea of understanding the essence of phenomena, with the idea of overcoming external shape of things for the sake of identifying their hidden, seemed to them a secret, sense. " (ill. in the previous post).
Another remarkable feature of South American culture - its mystical and focus on the dialectics of life and death. Iznanka this concentration - sombre religious ceremony with mass human sacrifices.
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1,2 - "Queen of Uxmal (Culture mayev)
3,4 - Coatlicue - the goddess of death and soil. Instead of her head - the skull (culture of the Aztecs)
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5 - Seated Woman (culture Totonacs). Striking similarity with the cap headdress Nefertiti.
6 - bound captives 7 - Man. 8 - Women (all - the culture of the West)
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9 - presumably - the scene of sacrifice to God of trade (the Olmec culture. 6 - 1 century BC). Turns, steep disassembly in business circles - sanctified and celebrated by thousands of art tradition.
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LCR, and you do not want to ask admin to move this noble theme of "Destination Art", where it would have been a good company with the primitive art of the peoples of Africa? After all, here she quickly falls down and disappears from sight ...