1. Non Western Art

2. Background
• Western Civilization =
Prehistoric – present Europe
and the colonies of Europen
countries
• Non-Western = Civilization
that developed in the East,
on the South Pacific Islands,
Australasia, the early
civilizations in the America’s
etc.
• Conceptual and religious art

3. Indigenous
American
Mayan and
Aztec
Easter Island
Indian
Indigenous
Australian
Chinese
Australian
Japanese
Australian
Map of Non-Western Civilizations

4. Easter Island
Stone Heads

5. Easter Island
• Island discovered by the
Dutch Admiral Roggeveen
during Easter 1722
• They satand 10m high
along the coast
• 2 Tribes: Ha-nau-aa-epe
(dominant, long ear) and
Ha-nau-mo-moko (short
ear)

6. Easter Island Stone Heads
• Estimated that people
first arrived on the
islands between 4th and
7th Century AD
• It was during this time
that the platforms were
created
• First heads only erected
after 1000 AD
• What else could the
platforms have been
used for?

7. • 1000 Heads have been found on the island
• No heads were erected after 1680 due to the
community collapsing through tribal war and
slavery
• All the heads gaze towards the land even
though they are near the sea.
• The heads measure between 2 and 11 metres
• All appear the same – long head, upper torso,
chin and long ears, arms against bodies or on
stomachs
• Some have eyes made from red and white
stones or coral
• +- 70 have headdresses made from volcanic
rock ( chieftains)

8. • +- 400 heads in the inner core of the Rano Raka volcano
• How did they move the heads when there were so few trees to use
as rollers?
• One unfinished head is 20m high and weighs an estimate of 270
tons!
• In a quarry there are pointed stones pushed into the rock face
indicating how they must have excavated the stone

9. • Tablets of wood with
a type of hieroglyphic
called Rongo Rongo
were found, but most
of them were burnt
by a priest who
settles on the island
• There are 26 of these
artefacts remaining
with a total of 1600
signs
• They are seen as
ritualistic rather than
a written language

10. • The history of the tribes and the reasons why
they carved the heads are still unclear, especially
as the population became so depleted that a
strong cultural history did not survive

11. Art of China
Terracotta Army

12. The Terracotta Army
• 6000 – 8000 figures
• Discovered in 1974 by a group of farmers in
the eastern suburbs of Xi’an in the Shaanxi
province of China
• Funerary art buried with the first Emperor of
China in 210 BC
• The army was to serve the Emperor in the
afterlife