CREATIVITY IN PREHISTORY: THE PAINTED POTTERY FROM CUCUTENI B
CREATIVITY IN PREHISTORY: THE PAINTED POTTERY FROM CUCUTENI B

Summary/Abstract: The present study has in view an ancient time from the History of Art on the territory of Romania, that is the Eneolithic period. It is difficult (or maybe not?) to prove the borders of utilitarianism for those times, art having also a purpose (utilitarian, magical-religious) and the beginning of artistic quality for some objects that are considered nowadays works of art. The peak of the Eneolythic art in our country is a proof of the development of aesthetic taste in the case of the primitive man who created the Cucuteni art. This paper will not have in view the entire Cucuteni ceramics, which is considered the most interesting Neolithic pottery from the Balcans, but only its last phase, phase B and its unusual elements brought by it. There are special shapes (the vase as a bag from Miorcani); the bichrome chromatics which complements the previous polychromy; new motifs: crosses, the zoomorphic and ornithologic background, the suggestion of time and perspective.

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