Sculpture Masterpieces of the Ancient World. Table of Contents, •Introduction to Sculpture •Methods and Materials •Earth the Master Sculptor, •Prehistoric Sculpture, •The Sculpture Masterpieces of India, •Egyptian Sculpture, •The Sculpture of the Olmecs, •The Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin, •Sculpture of the Ancient Middle East, •Cycladic Art and Sculpture. If oxen could draw and sculpt, their Gods would look like oxen. Xenophanes. Sculpture Masterpieces of the Ice Age Caves of Southern France and Northern Spain. The Venus of Brassempouy is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Paleolithic. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. About 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face. Indian Mythology dates back to as early as 7200 BC when the first hymns of the Rig Veda was composed. The hymns of the Rig Veda are the first and freshest expression of the sense of beauty and gladness awakened in the Aryan race by the charms and the bounty of nature. Wood sculpture of Ka-Aper from mastaba tomb, Saqqara, ca. 2,500 BC, Sheikh el-Balad, Arabic title for the chief of the village, was the name given to this remarkable wooden statue discovered by the workmen of Auguste Mariette, the French archaeologist, because it resembled their own village chief. Offering bearers from the tomb of Djehuty who was Overseer of Treasury and of Works during the 18th Dynasty reign of Hatshepsut. Cities of Sumer. Sumer was first settled between ca. 4500 and 4000 BC. Sumerian Cities of Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Eridu, River delta marsh country of the Lower Tigris and Euphrates. Rivers change course over time.
I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.
The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.
Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.
