UNIT 2 SUMMARY

 

Throughout the class, we have discussed various forms of culture in the course of art history. It ranges from artworks in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to artwork in Ancient Greece and Rome. Each era provided their society with a certain influence . For example, Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had a society filled with a god worshiping civilization, meanwhile, Ancient Greece and Rome had more of an interest towards the incorporation of humanism in their artwork.

The first difference between these art periods of the Ancient World, Egyptian art, as aforementioned, was primly concerned with the worship to an almost cult-like extent of gods or kings. This is because the ancient Egyptian society, and was thus related within the artwork of the ancient Egyptians. For example, the god of the afterlife within ancient Egyptian society.  Furthermore, Ancient Egyptians preferred an  straight look to their artworks, unlike the ancient Greeks and Romans. Therefore,it is easy to see as to why Ancient Egyptian artistic had its differences from other ancient world artworks.

On the ancient Greek and Roman it mostly focus on humanism within the artworks of these two sides of the Art of the Ancient World. Humanism was the idea of the physical and spiritual world. All of their art work in the Ancient Roman are all being part of the real-life beings. It does mot matter of how they look, gender, or any other characteristic that describe about them.  The only difference is how they dress up in style and using other material.  As of today we still use art in many different ways in historically or modernly.

 

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