Art

= = toc = = = = **Ancient Indian and Ancient Greek Art**

=Main Points:=
 * Ancient India's sculptures
 * Ancient India's paintings
 * Ancient India's music and theatre
 * Ancient India's carvings
 * Ancient Greece sculptures
 * Ancient Greece paintings
 * Ancient Greece music and theatre
 * Ancient Greece carvings

= = =Ancient India:=

Sculpture
Ancient India had a verity of a sculptures from small figurines to towering statues. These figurines were mainly made of ivory, wood, clay, bronze, and clay. Some of the statues were made of granite, marble, and soapstone. Forms of art came out of delight, laughter, sorrow, anger, fear, disgust, wonder and tranquility. Potters dug up clay fromlake shores and mixed it with water. Once it was mixed, they would mold it. Potters mainly made jars and clay pots.

Paintings
Ancient India had beautiful paintings. They did so many different sized murals. Normally, murals decorated walls of temples, palaces, and estates.

Music and Theatre
Ancient India had classical and traditional music. Some music includes Karnatak and Hindustani music

Carvings In Walls
Most carvings in temples, pillars, palaces, and shrines. These carvings were inspired by earthly images and the earthly images reflected off Hindu belief. In fact, thirty villages were discovered with Buddhist temples carved into caves.

=**Ancient Greece**:=

Sculptures
Pottery in Ancient Greece was very important. Almost all house hold items were made of clay. Potters worked in in workshops with slaves. Some items that they made were small figurines and life-sized statues. In fact, one of the most popular was the Black Glaze of Athenian. It was admired all over the ancient world. Athens exported clay throughout the Mediterranean.

Paintings
Ancient Greece had Beautiful paintings. These beautiful paintings were painted on the walls as decorations for rooms. Some examples of the paintings were murals and wallpaper. These paintings decorated the walls of temples and many other buildings. Some paintings were found from the Bronze Age.

Music and Theatre
Greek plays started around 500 BC. Some plays were tragedy plays and Comedy plays. The stadium where plays where held in amphitheater. Some instruments used were lyres, pipes and singing.

**Carvings In Walls** Ancient Greece made beautiful carvings in the wall. They made relief sculpture. A relief sculpture is a sculpture that is partially carved into the wall and need a base to hold them up. These were normally carved into walls or on tombstones.

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