GROUP I MAINS HISTORY

WOULD YOU AGREE THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION WERE GREAT ART LOVERS? GIVE REASONS FOR YOUR ANSWER.

        Indus valley civilization is one of the oldest civilization of the world and the IVC people were great art lovers. The arts of the IVC emerged during the second half of the third millennium B.C. The forms of art found from various sites of the IVC include sculptures,
seals, pottery, gold jewellery, terracota figures etc....

        The IVC people of that time surely had fine artistic sensibilities and vivid imagination. Their delineation of human and animal figures was highly realistic in nature. Since the anatomical details include them was unique.

        The Art of bronze casting was practised on a wide scale by the IVC people. Their bronze statues were made using the lost wax technique. ex; bronze dancing girl. In the case of terracota art, the modelling of animal figures was done in an extremely artistic manner. Terra cota images, ex Mother goddess, terracota figures, toycarts with wheels,birds and animals.

The stone statuaries found at Harappa and Mohenjadaro are best example of handling three dimensional volumes.ex; Steatite bearded
man, Torso in red stand stone.

        Indus valley pottery was the black painted ware has a fine coating of red slip on which geometric and animal designs are executed in glossy black paint. IVC men and women decorated themselves with a large variety of beads and ornaments from every conceivable material ranging from precious metals and gemstones to bone and baked clay.

        The beads are in varying shapes like disc shaped, cylindrical, spherical and barrel shaped. Finally the IVC seals were fine and artistic manner, it was made up by Steatite and other costly metals.The fine variety of seals consists of animal motifs and pictograps.