Pişmiş Toprak Figürinler ve Anıtsal Heykeller: Bağımsız mı Takipçi mi?
Articles > Article · 2019
Authors: Elçin DOĞAN GÜRBÜZER
Cedrus: Akdeniz Uygarlıkları Araştırma Dergisi, Other Refereed National Journals, National, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM), 2019, pp 299-331
Summary
<div class="page" title="Page 1" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: MinionPro;">A</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: MinionPro;">Since the very early period, one of the field of art which human being could be depicted in a real- like manner have been the plastic art. In this field, sto- ne sculptures and terracotta figurines have a special importance. In the region of ancient Aegean, the earli- est human representations among three dimensional ones, had been the figurines made from clay. Within the middle of the VII</span><span style="font-size: 6pt; font-family: MinionPro; vertical-align: 4pt;">th </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: MinionPro;">century BC, in parallel with the progress of the knowledge in art and the sense of aes- thetics, sculptors started to use the marble and the limestone in order to create live-size human figures. From then on, till to the end of ancient times, monu- mental sculptures were one of the most strong images in terms of religion and social life. Terracotta figurines share the same chronology with monumental sculp- tures. However, there have been some diffrences be- tween two field of art in terms of their functions and meanings. In spite of the technical and funtional dif- ferences, tipological characteristics reveal the inter- raciton between these two fields. For understanding the characteristics of this interaction clearly, it is esen- tial to examine the periodical progress of the terra- cotta figurines and monumental sculptures. It seems that there used to be a change of role between figu- rines and statues concerning to lead to the style. While terracotta figurines have the effects of specific monu- mental statues in certain periods, they also define the order of the sculpture in some periods. Consequently, as terracottas had their own dynamics in terms of ty- pe, iconography and function, they had a very im- portant role for understanding the ancient people and their lives.</span></p></div></div></div>