Unit 2: Sculpture

Since the beginning of human life in the earth, there have always existed sculptures or intents of it throughout human evolution. It can be said that the earliest sculpture that ever existed is the rock when humans tried to make weapons out of it by giving it form. Humans continued experimenting with different rocky materials until they completely evolved and started to create figures during the prehistoric times.  With the great civilizations such as the roman, sculpture started to be viewed as a form art. This time the creation of forms had a different meaning to the world. Sculpture started to be a representation of something or somebody instead of using it as an object. Examples of the civilizations that played an important role in the evolution and refinement of sculpture are the Greek, Egyptian and Roman civilizations. Also, in the other part of the world, the Inca, Maya and Aztec among other civilizations started to create sculptures representing their gods with completely different and exotic materials never used and known before by the old continents’ civilizations.  So when the colonialist people arrived to the American continent a new types of sculpture started to emerge from the mix of cultures.  Today, the evolution of sculpture can be seen along the evolution of humans. We started sculpturing with rocks, then mud, clay, marble, ice and wax, until today’s easy –to-handle materials. Though what would never change is the human necessity to sculpt.