Proto Elamite Period ca. 3100 - 2900 B.C.
Lowland plain of Khuzistan in southwest Iran. Heart of ancient state Elam with Susa as major urban center. Writing, invented in mesopatamia, apeared soon thereafter at Susa, but in a different script. developing.
Highly expresssive animal figures, sometimes in human postures. Bodies often covered with linear pattern....symbolized natural forces and or protagonists in myths or animal fables.
Inanna Sumerian goddess of abundence.
Red black white
Cuneiform writing
"He fashioned his statue and set it up before the god in his temple, to pray to the god for the life of his father, for the life of his mother, and for his own life." -Meanesi ca. 2500 BC
[ancestral prayer]
Inanna "Queen of Heaven"
Goddess of fertility embodied in planet Venus
Appears in morning and again in evening
Her temple E-duranki : "the bond of heaven and earth"
Ritual and ceremony
[cigarette break]
Bridget Riley "Blaze 1"
Jean Tinguely "Narva"
Paul Gauguin "Te Bou Rao II"
Washed in blue, something therein.
Mark Rothko No. 3 1953
transcendent emotional response / layered planes
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