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{{about|the style of decorative arts|the 2016 song by Biffy Clyro|Animal Style (song)|the style of dressing fast food|In-N-Out Burger products#Secret menu variations}}File:Arzhan deer.jpg|thumb|"Animal style" deer, (8-7th century BC) Arzhan kurgan, TuvaTuvaFile:BeltBuckleOrdos3-1CenturyBCE3.JPG|thumb|Ordos cultureOrdos cultureAnimal style art is an approach to decoration found from Ordos culture to Northern Europe in the early Iron Age, and the barbarian art of the Migration Period, characterized by its emphasis on animal motifs. The zoomorphic style of decoration was used to decorate small objects by warrior-herdsmen, whose economy was based on breeding and herding animals, supplemented by trade and plunder.Emma C.Bunker, Animal Style Art from East to West, Asia Society. p. 13 Animal art is a more general term for all art depicting animals.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Eastern styles
File:Fibula in the Form of a Recumbent Stag, about 400 AD, Northeastern Europe, and Stag Plaque, 400-500 BC, Scythian, western Asia, gold - Cleveland Museum of Art - DSC08141.JPG|thumb|The influence of Scythian art: Fibula in the Form of a Recumbent Stag (below), about 400 AD, Northeastern Europe, and Stag Plaque (above), 400â500 BC, Scythian, western Asia, gold]]Scythian art makes great use of animal motifs, one component of the "Scythian triad" of weapons, horse-harness, and Scythian-style wild animal art. The cultures referred to as Scythian-style included the Cimmerian and Sarmatian cultures in European Sarmatia and stretched across the Eurasian steppe north of the Near East to the Ordos culture of Inner Mongolia. These cultures were extremely influential in spreading many local versions of the style.Steppe jewellery features various animals including stags, cats, birds, horses, bears, wolves and mythical beasts. The gold figures of stags in a crouching position with legs tucked beneath its body, head upright and muscles bunched tight to give the impression of speed, are particularly impressive. The "looped" antlers of most figures are a distinctive feature, not found in Chinese images of deer. The species represented has seemed to many scholars to be the reindeer, which was not found in the regions inhabited by the steppes peoples at this period. The largest of these were the central ornaments for shields, while others were smaller plaques probably attached to clothing. The stag appears to have had a special significance for the steppes peoples, perhaps as a clan totem. The most notable of these figures include the examples from:- the Arzhan kurgan, Tuva, Siberia, with animal style artifacts (8-7th century BC).
- the burial site of Kostromskaya in the Kuban dating from the 6th century BC (Hermitage)
- Tápiószentmárton in Hungary dating from the 5th century BC, now National Museum of Hungary, Budapest
- Kul Oba in the Crimea dating from the 4th century BC (Hermitage).Loehr, Max, "The Stag Image in Scythia and the Far East", Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, Vol. 9, (1955), pp. 63-76, JSTOR
Germanic animal style
{{see also|Migration Period art|Anglo-Saxon art|Viking art}}The study of Germanic zoomorphic decoration was pioneered by Bernhard Salin(:sv:Bernhard Salin|Biography on swedish Wikipedia) in a work published in 1904.Die altgermanische Thierornamentik, Stockholm 1904, The Open Library online text, written in German and heavily illustrated. Salin classified animal art from roughly 400 to 900 AD into three phases. The origins of these different phases remain the subject of debate; developing trends in late-Roman popular provincial art was an element, as were earlier traditions of the nomadic Asiatic steppe peoples. Styles I and II are found widely across Europe in the art of the "barbarian" peoples during the Migration Period.Style I. First appearing in northwest Europe, first expressed with the introduction of the chip carving technique applied to bronze and silver in the 5th century. It is characterized by animals whose bodies are divided into sections, and typically appear at the fringes of designs whose main emphasis is on abstract patterns."Decoding Anglo-Saxon art", Rosie Weetch and Illustrator Craig Williams, British Museum] blog, 28 May 2014Style II. After about 560â570 Style I, declining, began to be supplanted. The animals of Style II are whole beasts, their bodies elongated into "ribbons" which intertwined into symmetrical shapes with no pretense of naturalismârarely with legsâtending to be described as serpents, though heads often have characteristics of other animals. The animals become subsumed into ornamental patterns, typically interlace. Examples of Style II can be found on the gold purse lid (missing image!
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) from Sutton Hoo (c. 625). Eventually about 700 localised styles develop, and it is no longer very useful to talk of a general Germanic style.Rituals of power: from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages, By Frans Theuws, Janet L. Nelson, p. 45 Salin Style III is found mainly in Scandinavia, and may also be called Viking art. Interlace, where it occurs, becomes less regular and more complex, and if not three-dimensional animals are usually seen in profile but twisted, exaggerated, surreal, with fragmented body parts filling every available space, creating an intense detailed energetic feel. Animals' bodies become hard for the unpractised viewer to read, and there is a very common motif of the "gripping beast" where an animal's mouth grips onto another element of the composition to connect two parts. Animal style was one component, along with Celtic art and late classical elements, in the formation of style of Insular art and Anglo-Saxon art in the British Isles, and through these routes and others on the Continent, left a considerable legacy in later Medieval art.Other names are sometimes used: in Anglo-Saxon art Kendrick preferred "Helmet" and "Ribbon" for Styles I and II.HillsImage:Sutton.Hoo.PurseLid.RobRoy.jpg|Sutton Hoo purse-lid, 7th century, with Style II animals. British Museum:{{British-Museum-db|1939,1010.2.a-l|id=87215}}File:Fragments from a helmet (Staffordshire Hoard).jpg|Cheek piece from a helm from the 7th to 8th century Staffordshire Hoard File:Vogel-broa.gif|Analysis of a bird from Broa, after whose finds the "Broa" style, a phase of Salin's Style III, is named.- Sutton.Hoo.PurseLid.RobRoy.jpg -
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See also
File:Warring States Gold Tigers (11866168324).jpg|thumb|Warring States gold tigers, Hebei ProvinceHebei ProvinceNotes
{{reflist}}External links
- Perm Animal Style: Photo gallery (Virtual museum)
- Perm Animal Style
- Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on and examples of animal style
- Andreeva, Petya, "Fantastic Beasts of the Eurasian Steppes: Toward a Revisionist Approach to Animal-Style Art", University of Pennsylvania, 2018:weblink
- Salin Styles in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
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