Ancient Art

Artwork has and still remains a very important part of people’s lives. The visual and performing arts allow people to express their beliefs and feelings. Since most art expresses the feelings and beliefs of a person, the art also express much of their culture. Historians and students can learn from this artwork about a certain culture. Most prehistoric and ancient cultures do not have many written documents and without this artwork we would know very little to nothing about them. That is why artwork from any culture, especially Ancient ones is so important. India, Greece, Egypt, Rome, China, Mesopotamia, Israel and Persia have many types of ancient art with different styles although it is a painting, sculpture, architecture and etc. Animals, people, Gods and Goddesses are the subject matter of ancient art. They use stones, chalk, pigments, charcoal and etc. to make art like for example the “Cave Paintings”, they draw in stone cave using medium of art. These is the picture of cave paintings:

Paleolithic Cave Painting

Ancient art and the artist were admirable because how the artist do their artwork? (how they do that?) I can’t believe it! It is important because it allows us to have a glance of a long deceased culture. A memories.

IMPORTANT IN ART

For me the most important in visual elements is color because they are shown of artist’s emotions in making their artworks. We all live in a world where at some point, color will be a part of, and effect us in our everyday lives. This element gives life and comely to every work of art. To create light, shadow, and space in making artwork. They are the most attractive and the best part in making art. Different colors can create different situations for artwork. We can create the mood by selecting warm or cool colors that remind us of emotions that we want in our artwork. This is the powerful effect on our works and the impressions of the people or the viewer. They choose artist what colors that they use either warm or cool colors. There are different meaning of each color for example red is love, blue is wisdom, green is calm, yellow is joyful and many more.

The most important for me in principles of design is harmony because they combine all elements of art like lines, shape, texture, shape, value, color and motion to create artwork. They also called unity. There are the three methods of harmony, the repetition, proximity, and simplicity. If there have harmony in music, also there have harmony in arts. We can create harmony with color to help us build a particular relationship between the colors on the palette. When colors are harmonized the relationship that is established allows the colors to work together. By sharing something in common, they blend together creating harmony.  

                         

I choose content in components of art because the artist shown their artwork using intellectual message. Content is what a piece of work is about or what is the subject matter. Content can also be the “essence” of the painting. It conveys a subject matter to portray or tell something to the viewer. It shows the significance, expression, meaning or significance of a work of art. Artist use different content in making their artworks. In one artwork, there are many symbols or message in art like for example of the artwork of Leonardo da Vinci’s “ Mona Lisa”, it is a portrait of a woman but there are many symbols in his artwork. “What you see, is what you understand”. 

Mona Lisa

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