of knowledge is to produce both meaning and purpose in our personal lives.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? My biggest goal in life at this moment is to enrol in a good university. To achieve it, I am doing my best to perform well in school. Working towards my goal - studying is in a way giving my life purpose and meaning. Therefore, I do agree with the statement that the whole point of knowledge is to produce both meaning and purpose in our personal lives to a certain level. But
Introduction: During the medieval age, communities and cultures speak and understand their ways of life as they enact the sculptures. Obviously, in that period of time, the line, shape, and texture of the sculptures interprets the purpose and function they were created for. Apparently, the sculptures were essentially created to depict spiritual, abstract, and religious sentiments or belief of the people. That is why the statue of Memi and Sabu portrays a different contest, function, and appearance
Art is an almost limitless vehicle for expression. It takes a wide variety of forms and is always evolving into new avenues of expression over the centuries. People have used art since the beginning. In prehistoric times cave art was used as a form of storytelling using pictograms. For example, cave people used charcoal to draw onto the roofs of caves. To this day, these drawings depict the hunting of animals and record part of the lives of people long ago. This is an example of one of the
Ancient Greek shaped the ideas of the what art should look like, and Greek culture plays such an important role of building the foundation of the western civilization. His ideas is absorbing, spreading and developing along with the conquered by Rome. Greece is kind of materialism, they barely believe the world in the mental, they prefer the world is all made by material instead. All the art work is the best example of Greece philosophy of life. The ideas of democracy, wisdom, religion is reflected
Without a direct line of communication, however, it is difficult to definitively construct the meaning of the creation. In "The Trouble with (The Term) Art," 2006, Carolyn Dean argues the phrase, "primitive art," and other labels used to describe non-western works before the concept of art developed, are troublesome because the definition of art itself is flimsy. In addition, Dean questions whether western civilization is doing a disservice to pieces from regions such as Africa, the Americas, and
Before starting our Art History course, I had an interest in ancient culture and art that I hoped to cultivate and mature by choosing this class. My impressions of ancient Greece was one of elegant cultural sophistication in a society that thrived on education and advancement. The mythos and art of the Greek peoples has at once a romantic and spiritual energy to it. I always admired their history and wished I could see their enormous statues and unparalleled architecture in person. The while colored
Ancient Greek culture is majorly influential in Western culture. Major works of literature, art, and political structure from ancient Greece remain relevant to modern Western society. However one can contrast these two societies by observing and valuing the art of ancient Greece. One can differentiate ancient Greek culture and modern Western culture by analyzing the treatment of religious figures, attitude towards emotion, and reaction towards nudity in each society. Ancient Greece was a polytheistic
history, the ancient Greeks and Romans has a huge amount of influence on civilization over Western countries as well as the continents and countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Both Greeks and Romans founded arts, politics, literatures, theatre, philosophy and so on. Before the ancient Greeks collapsed, there was an overlapping period of time of the Greeks and Romans. As a result, these great two empires shared several similar cultures and civilizations. Particularly, some of the Roman arts were influenced
very hard, they had tons of fun. Egyptian daily life was focused on enjoying the time they had as much as possible and trying to make other 's lives equally memorable. Men worked out in the fields and traded, while women took care of the daily needs of their family. Although, sports, games, music, art and time with their friends and family were as much a part of Egyptian life as work. Music was as important in ancient Egypt just as it is today. The party scenes on walls, songs on papyri, and musical
satisfaction of what one thinks is perfect, i.e. the most suitable. Ancient Greek and Roman art possess idealisms that allow us to imagine the experience of life during their times. This is done in more ways than one. In contrast to the imperfect states of realism, idealism is the expression of the visual aspects we see, but also can be extended into the contexts of the work’s time period - what was occurring in the area at that time, how it was built, the societal atmosphere, etc. Through analyzation