Cultural Influences In Early India And China

Each one of these early works were influenced by something or someone. Through my two choices, early India and China have influences that are different, but also similar to each other in nature. Early Indian works have a lot of influence through music. A huge amount of their artwork involves movements through their sculptures. For example, my choice of picking the Dancing Girl was because this specific figure incorporates a lot of Indian attributes, but also showing a big influence of music through their culture since the figure’s movement was dancing. In addition to that, I see influences of religious beliefs through this figure as well. The girl has a little amount of clothing and her body parts are embraced; her fleshy, sensual body tells a lot about the religion not being

The swirling designs were both present, but instead the Yangshao culture made their pots more sophisticated in designs along with their use of orange, red glazes. Not only that, but there is a present similarity between the two works because in the Dancing Girl she has movement in her body language and in the Yangshao Pot the lines throughout the pot show a movement of energy as well. The differences between my two choices of artworks are in their form, purpose, and content. The Dancing Girl, for starters, comes from early Indian work and challenges society. This would be intimidating to the Chinese society because of how this figure portrays itself with the girl wearing almost no clothing and being really sensuous. This figure also contains movement that rarely is ever in Chinese works. Many artwork from early China are very sophisticated and show how structured their society was while early Indian artwork is a very much more “go with the flow” type of society. Early Chinese work would not have the same types of artwork like early India. Also, another difference is that my choice of picking the Yangshao Pot is just one of many that early China used for almost everything in their daily