Estonian art

About 1700 registered cup stones have been found from the Bronze Age and archaeological finds from the neolithic period.

Nearest two caves with Paleolithic paintings are in Southern Ural mountains in Bashkortostan and Russia.

Neolithic rock carvings have been preserved in granite rocks on the Eastern coast of Lake Onega, also in the White Sea region, on Kola peninsula, Northern Norway and Southern Sweden etc.. Cave paintings were the first pieces of art, they were found in caves and tunnels.

Ancestral farmers and gatherers would use blood, bone marrow and crushed up animal hair to add pigmentation to the illustrations.

The art pieces would have skeletons and walking corpses, these would symbolize the death of people from the wars they had with the Swedish forces.

The most notable work is the Bronze Soldier (made by Enn Roos and Supervising architect Arnold Alas) it was unveiled on the 22 September 1947 on the second anniversary of the Soviet Red Army re-entering Tallinn in September 1944.

Estonia started surreal art from early 1900 and is quite renowned in comparison to other countries in the region.