Romanian art

[2] During Antiquity, the Geto-Dacians produced art and built multiple cities of the dava type (like Sucidava, Argedava or Buridava).

After the Dacian Wars (101–102, 105–106), Emperor Trajan transformed a big part of Dacia into a province of the Roman Empire.

The first objects featuring abstract geometric ornaments are from the Late Paleolithic and early Mesolithic, discovered in 1966 in the Iron Gates area, in settlements at Cuina Turcului, Schela Cladovei, Ostrovul Banatului etc.

Scientists think that at the beginning of the Neolithic, migratory populations come here from West Asia, which will remain here and fuse with the locals from Mesolithic.

They left us pottery and abstract clay statuettes decorated with geometric patterns, that may give us hints on the way these civilizations used to dress and maybe tattoo.

A really famous one, known as the Thinker of Hamangia, depicts, as the name suggests, a man thinking, staying on a small chair, with his elbows on the knees.

All these vessels show the precision of the Neolithic people, since potter's wheel wasn't invented it, and so all these objects were produced manually.

Just like any other culture of its time, it used geometric ornaments to decorate its artifacts, including sinuous lines, spirals, ovals combined with zigzags, and rhombi.

Neolithic cultures are succeeded by the ones of Bronze Age, initially characterized by inferior artistic elements if we compare it to Cucuteni art.

In a short interval of tine, in comparison with the millennia of Neolithic art, a few cultures of a high technical and artistic level develop on the territory of Romania.

Bronze Age cultures include Sighișoara-Wietenberg, Verbicioara, Monteoru, Ottomány and Žuto Brdo - Gârla Mare.