History of Arts
History of arts is the history of any activity or product
made by human in a visual form for aesthetic or communicative purpose,
expressing ideas, emotions or in general.
The best periods of art history for me is, the ancient art.
It was largely, but not entirely based on the nine great ancient civilizations:
Egypt, Mesopotamia,
Persia, Greece,
Rome, India
and Maya. Each of these centers of early civilization developed a unique and characteristics
style in it’s art. And for me the most influential ear of art is the ancient Greece.
Because Greece had
the most influence on the development of aesthetics. This period of Greek art
saw a veneration of the human physical form ad the development of corresponding
skills to show musculative, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions.
Now I know that the Greek philosophers initially felt that aesthetically
appealing objects were beautiful in and of themselves. He felt that beautiful objects
incorporated proportion, harmony, and unity among their parts. An example of
ancient aesthetics in Greece
through poetry is Plato's quote: "For the authors of those great poems
which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art; but
they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as
it were, possessed by a spirit not their own."
I choose this history, because I believed that for us to
have a perception of beauty there must be a transcendent form for beauty
in which beautiful objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful also. Beauty
in art reflects the beauty in Art.
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