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The Olmec culture was first defined as an art style, and this continues to be the hallmark of the culture. [30] Wrought in a large number of media – jade, clay, basalt, and greenstone among others – much Olmec art, such as The Wrestler, is naturalistic.
This category contains articles relating to the art of the pre-Columbian Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica. Pages in category "Olmec art" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
A selection of tiny naturalistic Olmec ceramic figurines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.The hunchback at center is less than 3 inches (7.6 cm) tall. Olmec figurines are archetypical figurines produced by the Formative Period inhabitants of Mesoamerica.
This is represented in Olmec "art" and those with elite status would have worn elaborate headdresses of feathers and other animal forms. [30] Ocean creatures were also sacred to the Olmec—Pohl (2005) found shark teeth and sting ray remains at feasting sites at San Andres and it is clear that those at La Venta shared in the same ideology.
The most naturalistic Olmec art is the earliest, appearing suddenly without surviving antecedents, with a tendency towards more stylised sculpture as time progressed. [17] Some surviving examples of wooden sculpture recovered from El Manatí demonstrate that the Olmecs are likely to have created many more perishable sculptures than works ...
Very little Olmec or other Early Formative era art shows war or sacrifice. [20] No stelae have been found extolling rulers' victories, unlike the later Maya or the contemporaneous Egyptian or Hittite cultures. Olmec colonization, that is the founding of new settlements by Olmec emigrants outside of the Olmec heartland, is unlikely.
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The sophisticated manipulation of form in the Guerrero cave paintings suggests that the “cave artists were court painters and the caves were used by some local elites.” [8] With that said, at Juxtlahuaca and Oxtotitlan the paintings are certainly the work of well trained artists, practiced in the themes and pictorial conventions of Olmec art but the Cacahuaziziqui paintings have a ...