INVESTIGATING MOTIFS ON CERAMIC OBJECTS FOUND IN TAPPEH HESAR EXCAVATIONS AND EXAMPLES OF CONTEMPORARY APPLICATIONS OF MOTIFS

Abstract

Contemporary ceramic art is based on traditional and functional products. These products not only release the person, but also the beliefs, cultures, lifestyles and minds of that age. The investigation of founded pottery samples in the excavations of the Hisar Tepe in the Damgan district of Iran, which is the refuge of the first civilizations, reveals that the life in this region is lasted up the four thousand years before the century. According to the results of carbon analysis of the products found in the excavations at Hisar Tepe, especially the ceramic objects was determined that, these products were made in the Chalcolithic Age (4500-300) and Bronze Age (3000-1500 BC). During these ages, the motives and production techniques of the ceramics, which have been made by three civilization in Hisar Tepe, grouped in three categories. These are similar in terms of visual characteristics such as the combination of designs, negative - positive area relationship and composition in products made in different periods. However, the rhythm, repetition and features of the lines have changed in the product decorations. The similarity of the motifs on the ceramic objects of these period and the small changes with time reveal the slow development of the visual properties on the ceramic.

             In this research, the motifs on the ceramic products, which were obtained in Hisar Tepe excavations and thought produced in that area, were examined and evaluated. Today some of these motifs are interpreted and used in contemporary ceramic art and other visual art works.