Curriculum Materials: Amazing Animals in
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Image 2 Peru, Nazca Essays: Questions: |
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Nazca artists created a variety of vessels that includes spheres, domelike jars, open bowls, cylinders, and figural shapes like this one. The pottery of some ancient cultures of northern Peru emphasized MODELING and used limited color. The Nazca relied less on modeling, but covered their smooth, delicately curved surfaces with colorful polychrome painting and designs that tended toward the ABSTRACT.
This Nazca artist has represented the fish with some degree of NATURALISM but has clearly abstracted the forms to create a bold STYLIZED design. By distorting and simplifying certain features, such as the fins and the scales, and by combining two-dimensional and three-dimensional techniques, the artist has created a decorative, caricaturelike effect. As in the African Leopard, reference is made to certain anatomical features, but the intention is to simplify and to use color, line, and form for expressive purposes.
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