Art is Uzbekistan Plan: Art is Uzbekistan

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   Art is Uzbekistan
   

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1.Art is Uzbekistan
The art of the Uzbek people has an ancient history going back centuries. The territory of Uzbekistan, which occupies a vast area of ​​the Central Asian interfluve – the fertile valleys of the Oks and Yaksart, since ancient times was inhabited by numerous sedentary and nomadic tribes. In Zarautsay, Teshik-tash, Sarmyshsay, Aman Kutan, rock paintings belonging to the era of primitive society were found. The Amu Darya treasure, now kept in the British National Museum, confirms the existence of highly developed fine art in this area as far back as the Bronze Age. Samples of ritual sculptures, numerous terracotta figurines from the sites of Jarkutan, Molallitepa, Sapallitepa and other examples of the fine art of the ancient period on the sites of Bactria, Khorezm and Sogd testify to the deep traditions of monumental art and plastics. In the works of ancient art used complex semantics of ornamental, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic nature. They reflected a kind of artistic picture of the world, formed in the world view of the Eastern man. And the coexistence of various religions and cults, including Zoroastrianism, had a decisive influence on the mentality of the peoples of Central Asia.
The epoch of antiquity on the territory of the republic (IV century BC – IV century AD), was marked by the flourishing of architecture, monumental painting and sculpture, jewelry art, small plastics. In the interiors of temples, palaces and castles of the first centuries AD, magnificent specimens of wall-mounted thematic painting and sculpture, made under the influence of Hellenistic and then Indo-Buddhist art (Khalchayan, Fayaz-tepe, Ayrtam, Dalverzin-tepe, etc.) were found.
Religious views in Bactria-Tokharistan were variegated. Different religions and cults coexisted here – Buddhism, dynastic cult and ancient local beliefs. Along with Buddhism, declared at the turn of AD. Kushan ruler Kanishkoy state religion, the local population continued to worship the deities of the East Iranian pantheon.

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