Art 152

09 January 2012 ~ Comments Off

Today in Art Foundations, I’ve learned very interesting facts about the Egyptian and Greek culture’s contribution to art. Both cultures were among the first to really interpret the art of the human body. The Egyptians would mainly created art for the after life. Once a person died, a sculpture would be made of him or her. It was said that if the sculpture broke, then their spirit would die and be gone forever. With the Greeks, their way of interpreting the art of the human body was purely for the beauty of it. Even though both cultures had many similarities in their presentation of art, there also existed slightly noticeable differences. I really thought that those facts were very interesting. The second hour of the class period, my classmates and I were able to do a Celtic knot. Now that was so interesting. We were able to take a piece of thin transparent-like paper and trace a design of a Celtic knot that our professor brought in. Then, were were to turn the paper on the opposite side and trace it onto a large sheet of drawing paper. It was so cool. I thought for me to have very little knowledge about art, I did a pretty decent job, lol.