Art Beyond The West

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This Era, Art Beyond The West is about the history, traditions and cultures and they tour the different artworks and architecture in Africa, America, China, Japan and India. The overall predominant styles in their art are the following:
-Realism
- Symbolism
-Abstractionism
-Naturalism

The Subject Matter:
-Shrines
-Religious Tribe
-People

It shows the different artwork styles from the earliest times to the present. Some of the earliest rock

art in Africa and Australia predates the famous Paleolithic cave paintings in France and Spain. The Indus Valley Civilization, Shang-dynasty China, and the earliest Native American ritual centers in South America were contemporaneous with New Kingdom Egypt and early Babylonia in

Mesopotamia. The ancient, pre-Islamic traditions in the arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and adjacent lands along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea lie beyond the West, but they played important roles in the development of Western art in antiquity and they are usually included in

studies of Western art. Directly or indirectly, these and other ancient non-Western civilizations gave birth to the cultures and art styles, many of which represent cultural ideas that remain vital forces in the modern world. Some early Asian cultures coalesced into large states or confederacies, as in India and China, while the cultural units in Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Native America generally
remained smaller and were organized more discretely around regional leaders and deities. But all of these groups, large and small, celebrated their identities through the arts, with religious rituals that often included prayers, song, dance, chants, architecture, elaborate forms of costuming, monumental art and portable art forms. Together, these non-Western cultures represent the majority of the land, people, and works of art produced around the world from prehistoric times to the present day, and some of them are poised to become leaders in the international art world of the twenty-first century.

The most favorite in Art Beyond the West is the Art style in Japan because the paintings is relaxing and mild, it is simple but nice and their artworks is based in Nature.