HUM 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mesopotamia, Genre Art, Arabian Peninsula
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Athens was composed of 40,000 citizen (only men woman slaves children didn t count) Greeks thought that nothing was more beautiful than the human form. Idealized the human form (wanted to make nature even better) Greek work of art build with stone and marble (only young and healthy men and woman) in order to show perfection. Greek art inluenced by egypt followed egyptian tradition. (shown in their art statue) Statue will decorate grave sites, set up in the olympics, in shrines for athena and apollo. Art not really processed so body shape is not deined in many of the statues. Statue are painted in order to show diversity (eye color etc. ) Female form evolved with time (started to show women naked) Aphrodite born as adult size in water brought by dolphins ( present love beauty and fertility) has to go back to the water to maintain beauty etc.