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The hunters which strike the stone.
Text: Pablo Maņé.
| Our magazine is used to inform about the well-known names in art. It allows you to follow the main events referring to plastic art. We wish to let you know about the work of anonymous artists. They were hunters from the north and east highlands of Tibet. We would like to bring the work closer to you which is practically unknown about an interesting civilization that emerges about 3,000 years ago and perpetuates through the Buddhism domination produced around 1,400 years ago. |
A group of anthropomorphism animals and shapes. Itīs possible that it refers to a theme on ritual magic. Probably prebudism period
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Human figure done at the beginning of the Buddhist
period.
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At this moment a hundred stones have been catalogued. In these there are images that witness changes in the area, such as the arrival of the domestic horse. We can see animals and hunting scenes which in recent times have developed into a representation of farm animals in which this type of exploitation has substituted hunting.
The most representative is the yak, that represents a powerful symbol in the identity of Tibet. The animals are shown alone or in herds and in occasion forming what some experts call, "composition of magical
rituals". |
We can see the hunters on foot or riding. The hunters usually carry bow and arrow and occasionally swords. We can also see them with shields and helmets.
Those hunters striking with a stone or painting with a colour roughly prepared with earth, have left us their prints and a work that in many occasions send us authors from the XX century. Itīs possible that they are witnesses of an art which never reaches its end because the art is always the same. |
Polychrome which was scarce in that area. Early Buddhist period, around 1,300 DC
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Myth bird with horns.Prebudism
period.
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(photographs and documentations: John Vincent Bellezza)
(Complementary bibliography:"Art of the Tibetan Rock paintings"- Sichuan Peopleīs publishing House. 1994)
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