A Vision of Ancient and Classical Art

Art As Old As Time. Like today, not everything from the past has a purely functional use; some beautiful artworks have come down to us from the ages.

Have you ever own an old photograph of your grand, grand father or have you experience shopping in an antique store? Creepy but most of them have valuable beauty tracing how it is done many years ago.

Art was one of the earliest manifestation of culture, this is because it fulfils human kinds need to interpret everything around them including their world and spiritual beliefs. Art is a huge part of ancient history. Ancient art provides insight from the past about many different civilizations. Just from looking at ancient art archeologists can found out hold old something like pottery is, or who ruled over an area at a certain time. Egypt and Persia are thought to have the richest artistic history and various, diverse artifacts from thousands of years ago. Paleolithic art can be found to date back over thirty thousand years.  They were cave paintings that depicted men, women and, animals, these types of works were most often found deep in caves were no natural light could reach. In the gloom of the caves, the paintings look remarkably realistic. As well as paintings there were many sculptors, mainly animals, the human forms discovered are believed to be symbols of fertility, these were carved form materials like ivory, serpentine and limestone.

Greek art was developed through several cultural phases, geometric, archaic, classical, and Hellenistic. Geometric was characterized by the use of geometric shapes; the archaic style developed from the use of oriental motifs. The period of The Classical was composed of idealistic human figures with emphasis on naturalism, grace and sophistication, depicted with drapery. The Human form in an idealized state was much admired by Roman artists, as they valued the emotional and psychological side of their art as well as the physical. Roman images emphasized wisdom form experience of social and political values of the Empire, as it was the Empire that determined the forms and context of art.

Ancient and Classical Art had been packed with history. It contains full of illustrations and artworks depicting history that helps us define what happened in our world years ago. I had been impressed by Ancient and Classical Art by its creativity not just in the terms of art-making but also in sculpture and architecture. Because of their brilliance, they had been influenced the way how I make art. They have a unique art style in which I can use to apply in art-making. Realism had been predominant in terms in Classical Art, in which I adore that’s why for a long time; I had been obsessed in realistic art. It is not that easy in terms of creating Ancient and Classical Art since it takes a lot of time, a lot of energy, a lot of inspiration and a lot of creative thinking in order to create such artwork.

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