Reclining Mouflon Analysis

With the experience of art-making, people can reflect on the finished art products and art processes which can help increase insight, awareness of self and develop

Paleolithic, Neolithic, Greek and Roman art movements have seen many changes through the course of their time. These periods, have produced many tremendous famous works of art. Paleolithic art was one of the earliest and most natural form of art which they shown by painting in the caves. The paintings in the cave were very interesting to look at and caught my eye every time I looked at the paintings. Each of the paintings in the caves were somewhat different. I personally think they were painting inside the caves because they were trying to chase food, which caused them to not stay in one place at a time. As the time went on, the Neolithic age saw construction of monument structures. They noticed the structures since the people of Neolithic age became settled unlike the Paleolithic ages people who were out chasing for food. I strongly believe the Greek and Roman ages are very well known, unlike the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages. “Humanity, reason, and nature were central preoccupations of the Greek mind, together formulating their attitude toward life” (Rathus 296). When you are looking at their art you can see all the unique crazy designs and very skillful drawings which

What makes the sculpture different from others of this time period are two things; the subject matter, in that it depicts no god, nor Pharaoh only a mortal human writing in a mostly illiterate society. Secondly it demonstrates age shown in sagging muscles and rotund belly. Due to this relaxed style we can gather that the subject is not a Pharaoh as it was dishonourable to insinuate that they aged as they were supposed to be gods on earth.

Art is a particular form of social consciousness and of human activities, an important way for people to perceive, discover and improve life: according to the laws of beauty. It is the creation of tangible or intangible products containing great values of thought-aesthetics, cultural character, and emotions. In this sense, there are numerous types of art. Painting is one of the oldest forms of art on earth. From prehistoric times, artists not only used it to communicate, but they also used painting to entertain the viewers. Painting can be transformed, eliminating the tedium, fatigue, and stress in daily tasks to bring the joy. Fun in life or silence for the soul. In other words, painting is a language that communicates an artist 's ideas

The first way art changed was when humans began to develop a system of agriculture. This ensured that humans did not have to move place to place, which gave them time to focus on other things (though it prevented them from making frequent cave paintings, as they no longer needed the caves to dwell in). Weapons were easier to make, and come across, although the types of weapons changed, along with the kind of materials and metals they were made from. In Paleolithic times, people used flint, hunting spears, and even animal bones as weapons. When the Neolithic period began, they used blades, hammers, and chisels instead. They used these as their tools for farming and hunting, as they no longer needed to worry about being so accessible to predators. As Neolithic people no longer had to search for food and water, they needed items to carry the things they collected back to their villages. This is when pottery becomes popular, not only to carry the people’s items but also to advertise their beliefs through religion.

People turned to these arts for recreation and self-expression. Families were also able to spend more time together along with their peers. These distractions allowed them to think less of the dawn-to-dusk field work and bad living

There are several historical, economic, and cultural events that caused the people of this time to look at life in a new way, and thus, art to be

“Moche portraits from Ancient Peru”, (2004): “Only a few ancient civilizations actually developed true portraiture, showing the anatomical features of a person…” (Donnan, C. 2004. pp. 3) a differences of the Egyptian, they were using symbols to represent their portraits. He also wrote that “Moche portraits are among the most varied, objective, and confident portraits produced by any civilization of the ancient world. They were made a three-dimensional ceramics vessels that could have contained liquid. Most are in the form of human heads” because those were used for carried water from the mountains to the sea. The Moche took an important place in art and technology, because they develop the weaving system and a complex network of irrigation canals to support abundant agriculture to their lands. (Donnan, C. 2004. Pp.4). they also recognized for a large monumental pyramid-shaped architecture called Huacas.

Art originally in earlier cultures had a different purpose. Currently people create art for an aesthetic purpose for others to view in galleries, theaters, or museums creating distance for the audience. Initially art was created for purposes other than aesthetics, and people participated and interacted with the art and artist. This intertwined relationship between humans and art is especially seen in the Dineh and Wilbiri cultures. These two groups created drypaintings. People in both these groups directly interacted with the paintings instead of viewing them from a distance. Currently, there is a sense of distance instead of interaction. In these groups, humans participated directly with the artist and the art itself. In both

Showing the victories and defeats of countries as well as wars between countries throughout history through the use of paintings has developed the struggles of countries throughout history. An example of such would be the Middle Ages, as it shows some of the propaganda against the Roman Catholic Church of that time and develops the feelings that were being shown through the use of paintings. These paintings express the ideas and controversy occurring during that time, and as such, is important to human history. These paintings would give other worlds a better understanding of the life that occurred on Earth. Humans around the world built all of the towns, cities, countries, and civilizations on Earth from scratch. Through the use of art, much of human knowledge before writing was brought to life. Things such as cave art brought complete human knowledge of what happened previously before humans wrote down information of occurrences of their time. Just like history before humanity, alien life forms would be able to depict information through the use of art because it shows what happened, how it happened, and the emotion humans experienced from it. In all, the vast human experience and history can be brought together with the use of art to show vast forms of life beyond the inhabitants of

Paintings in Ancient Egypt were very descriptive this lead to some people becoming artist. This source is broken into three registers, like most artwork in Ancient Egypt stories are told in the shape of a snakes and ladders game. On the first register (the very bottom one) scene 1 it shows reapers with tools made out of wood and stone cutting the ripe wheat and barley. Scene 2 shows 2 men holding a net bag which the harvested crops are put into, behind them are either children or women that collect the seeds that fall out. Last scene of register 1 shows two men shovelling grain up and putting it all together whilst a higher in command is checking that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Register 2 starts off with 2 beasts of burden stamping and trampling the ear of the crops to get all the seeds out while someone follows to collect the stomped out seeds. Scene 5 showcase’s reapers tossing the grain into the air which blows the useless chaff away while the seeds drop. A pharaoh or maybe a god are posing in scene 6 while a servant is taking a sample to them to

I find this piece to be very mysterious. Why does the head become narrow at the top? The face seems to be of an older woman, as shown by the wrinkles indented within the sides of the nose and the mouth, although they are not as prevalent as the one of NYC. There’s a soft jaw line of a woman. What is interesting to me is the indented/concave region of the eyes. Instead of forming an extruding eye with a pupil, the sculptor chose to extract the material to form the eye, unlike the piece we saw of Abu, with eyes stamped with bitumen tar. The lips are very well sculpted, and textured well. It seems like it would mean a lot to a Pharaoh who has lost his mother, or who hopes to forever remember his family. To see the portrait of his family along with himself would’ve made him feel happy and in the presence of his family. I feel this way much of the time when seeing photos of lost family members with me beside them within the photos. It’s like an everlasting memory of that person and being with them in the memory.

Creating art is one of the single defining factors that set humans apart from animal species. Through art, humans are able to express their innermost ideas and feelings, without having the difficulty of trying to find the correct words to accurately describe their thought processes. Works of art can help us to understand the people who have come before us. This is evidenced by the knowledge humans have discovered of prehistoric men and their symbolic cave paintings. The expression, style, and meaning vary and archaeologists put in much effort to uncover these works.

Art is crucial to human evolution because it is both a medium of expression that allows humans to evolve and is also key evidence of human evolution. The development and evolution of the human conscious has a direct correlation to the art created from each time period and has allowed researchers to interpret it, using it as a gateway into early human life. Art acts as a window into the minds and lifestyles of our ancestors. It has influenced the development, evolution, and the process of natural selection through culture.

Observing art from the earlier periods of time, religion and culture were the driving forces behind the creation of art. Ancient African artwork shows humans using their surroundings and