I thought that the whole assignment sucked, but the teacher thought I did good job. Mayan Art         Hundreds, even thousands of years before the Spanish conquests of the Middle and South Americas, huge empires of the Olmecs, Incas, Aztecs, and Mayan people ruled over the land. A lot is misunderstood about these early civilizations, for example Mayan, and Aztec art is often mistakenly call Olmec art. The Olmecs were the earliest Indian culture of the …showed first 75 words of 392 total…

…showed last 75 words of 392 total…on what I think art is, in my opinion, this statue is art. This statue was created most likely for a religious reason, and was simply an adornment for a building or public place. This statue was carved out of some sort of stone, possibly a sedimentary stone (like sand-stone) from the mountain areas in which it was created. The tools that carved it were probably very simple, like smaller stones, and simple metal chisles.