CLASSICAL ART: GREECE and ROME

        It has been said that nothing moves in the world that is not of Greek origin. Greek influences can be felt in almost every aspect of our life. It has influenced science, mathematics, law, politics, and art. Greece not only made an imprint on the history books but also asserted itself time. We still use Greek principles as basis for most of things. We look upon the Greek scholars. Greece was conquered by Rome one of the greatest empires in history. Important to the Greece is the humanity, reason and nature. Roman art includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.

        The artworks of Greeks are more on idealism and detailed. The medium they used is bronze or terracotta to make. Perfection for the Greeks was a balance among three elements: body, emotion, and intellect. Their love for reason and intellect led to rationalism, a philosophy that states knowledge comes from reason alone. In Greece the geometric scheme with linear patterns replaced the curvilinear designs and naturalistic. Sculpture was perhaps considered as the highest form of art by Romans, but figure painting was also very highly regarded. Although much Roman art is derived in style from that of Greece, its portrait sculpture originated in a tradition that was wholly Italian. Also in Rome their medium are bronze, stone, concrete, and terracotta. The artwork in Rome is also idealism and realism.

       There was an emphasis on human figure which replaced the geometric motifs. When human and animal life was again represented, the forms assumed were schematized and formal Human figure became a preferred subject rather than decorative patterns. Rome’s has a unique contribution to the arts that of realism. In every artwork in Greek and Rome is detailed. Rome greatest contribution lay in architecture, although the most significant buildings, monuments, and civic structures.  In classical art I like the most is the Greek Art because the artworks is very detailed and the unique of their works not like the Roman Art their initiate some of the work of Greek.

Art of the Ancient

             Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced culturesof ancient societies with some form of writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel, Egypt, Greece and Rome. The art of pre-literate societies is normally referred to as Prehistoric art and is not covered here. Although some Pre-Columbian cultures developed writing during the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, on grounds of dating these are covered at Pre-Columbian art, and articles such as Maya art and Aztec art.  Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with some form of writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel, Egypt, Greece and Rome. The medium in ancient art are the stone,marole,clay and pigment crete. Naturalism, representational and realism are the styles of the ancient. In ancient art they have a Era like the Paleolithic Era, Mesolithic Era and also the Neolithic Era. In Paleolithic Era the most cave paintings is the Hall of Bulls. The Mesolithic Era its a semi-nomatic style and it reflects the new commin. Neolithic Era produced more arts and they begun to rituals and greek columns.

             The Ancient near the east was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran, Anatolia/Asia Minor, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula. The ancient Near East is studied in the fields of Near Eastern archaeology and ancient history. It begins with the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC, though the date it ends varies: either covering the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the region, until the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. The ancient Near East is considered the cradle of civilization. It was the first to practice intensive year-round agriculture, it gave the rest of the world the first writing system, invented the potter's wheel and then the vehicular- and mill wheel, created the first centralized governments, law codes and empires, as well as introducing social stratification, slavery and organized warfare, and it laid the foundation for the fields of astronomy and mathematics.

              

The Egyptian art in ancient art is is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization of Ancient Egypt in the lower Nile Valley from about 3000 BC to 100 AD. Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both highly stylized and symbolic. Much of the surviving art comes from tombs and monuments and thus there is an emphasis on life after death and the preservation of knowledge of the past. Symbolism also played an important role in establishing a sense of order. Symbolism, ranging from the pharaoh's regalia to the individual symbols of Egyptian gods and goddesses, is omnipresent in Egyptian art. Animals were usually also highly symbolic figures in Egyptian art. Colours were more expressive rather than natural: red skin implied hard working tanned youth, whereas yellow skin was used for women or middle-aged men who worked indoors; blue or gold indicated divinity because of its unnatural appearance and association with precious materials; the use of black for royal figures expressed the fertility of the Nile from which Egypt was born. Ancient Egyptian art forms are characterized by regularity and detailed depiction of gods, human beings, heroic battles, and nature, and a high proportion of surviving works were intended to provide solace and utility to the deceased in the afterlife. Artists endeavored to preserve everything from the present as clearly and permanently as possible. Ancient Egyptian art was created using media ranging from papyrus drawings to pictographs (hieroglyphics) and include funerary sculpture carved in relief and in the round from sandstone, quartz diorite and granite. Ancient Egyptian art displays an extraordinarily vivid representation of the Ancient Egyptian's socioeconomic status and belief systems. Egyptian art in all forms obeyed one law: the mode of representing Pharaohs, gods, man, nature and the environment remained consistent for thousands of years.