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 sand 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.
