This document discusses the history and use of animals in art and literature. It describes how early humans depicted animals in cave paintings and sculptures, often using them to represent gods or as symbols. Animals were commonly featured in ancient Egyptian and Assyrian art, and became a prominent focus of Greek art. During the Renaissance, animals were often painted or sculpted for their own aesthetic appeal rather than symbolic purposes. Later, animals were frequently used as moral allegories or to provide social commentary in fables and stories. Their depictions aimed to elicit empathy, sympathy, and interest from audiences.
5. - spontaneous desire to decorate
objects
- to make
images from nature and magical
superstitions
- reasons why images of animals hunted
by people are seen sculpted in caves
6. - remain and seem closer
to eternal life
- represent deities or Horus
themselves are gods
- used as symbols in
Hieroglyphs
Hathor
7. - are simplified and stylized monumentally
with the Assyrians’ grandiose stone reliefs
- depict interaction with humans, nature,
etc.
8. - most prominent focus
of Greek arts
- painted or sculptured
on vases
- prototypes of nobles
Ex voto Horse and Rider : Terracotta..
Greek Horse. Terracotta.
9. - used as symbols
Fish symbolizes Christ
The Apostles are often shown as lambs
Peacocks represent the immortality of soul
10. used as symbols
Native American symbols (Nazca lines in Peru)
Chinese Zodiac
Zodiac Signs
11. - became the main theme of the artists
without decorative or symbolic pretext
- painted and sculptured for their own
sake
12. - are used as models in different artworks—drawn
in text books, represented in pictures, served as
motifs for human aesthetic activities, and so on.
13.
14. - moral allegories
many writers -- animals provide
Tales of animal
turned to social
old guidance, social
abuse arose, in
satire and animal
animal stories and commentary,
which animals
no longer produce
genres to moral seen as the
were authority
represented the
new works dealing and sympathy in
victims of human
godsthemes of
with but portrayed fiction, often giving
greed, ignorance,
human foibles and
paranoia, voice to the
and
political corruption.
alienation, and silenced and
industrialization.
futility. oppressed.
15. - Empathy
- Sympathy
- Humor
- Fun
- interest
- They like animals
- They want to add emotions
- They can connect with the readers
- To target certain audience
17. - Literary compositions that tell conflicts
between animals
- Use animals as the characters of the stories
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http://myindiantravel.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/best/hd_best.htm
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http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/animals2.htm
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literature
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http://www.erudit.org/culture/va1081917/va1209623/55248ac.pdf