About the Greek

WOW.....I'm updating my blog at the very constant rate now...haha :D

Every single Sunday..I didn't realize that until today XDD

This is great, I really hope I can keep up because I tend to get extremely lazy after a while.

Hmm I wanna do a post about classical music sometime...I hope I can get to do that next week.

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GREEK PEOPLE WERE AWESOME.

That's what I've been thinking for a long time.

When I was little, I used to love reading all the stories and the Greek gods and things like that. Doesn't horoscopes come from the Greek myths too?

Seriously, Greek myth is the most interesting and most intricate and most fascinating myths at the time. I love how the Greeks made the gods resemble humans. I think it can tie the people very closely to their own religion because they can relate to the stories so well.

And it's amazing that the Greeks still have so many influence on the modern society, next to the ancient Romans.

See, many handsome people are usually described as "Greek God" and things like that.

And also the beauty of nudity. (But since I am still a teenager....yeah nudity kind of makes me feel awkward..)

And finally, the horoscopes, like I have said before.

Okay, now for the arts.

I was able to see many great masterpieces in the book I bought :)

I very much admire the way their sculptures were made. Instead of the linear version of just one side, it is basically natural in very angle. And their clothes pattern....just wow. It doesn't have any repetition or anything, it just looks so natural and so close to our modern art. It's like the clothes just smoothly flows and you can just touch the soft fabric in your hand.

My favourite, is of course. "The Charioteer".

Apparently it was placed in Delphi, which was believe to be the center and the most sacred place on Earth. It's significance is very obvious. But it is such a shame that we do not get the see the original version of Apollo standing on the chariot with the four horses....It must look stunning. It also used to have silver embellishment on Apollo's body to make him look more gracious but it was lost also...

It's elegance can also tell one the importance of the Phthian Games. I love the appreciation the Greek people had to competition. I wonder if the Roman's Lion Fighting stuff was adopted from the Greeks....

About Minoan Crete

I was reading about the third millennium BC in the book I bought :D

So it is basically about the Egypitian art and the Mesopotamian art, which is completely normal since they were the two largest and earliest civilization in the world.

But then I came upon the Crete and their island culture. I have barely heard of this little culture and it somehow fascinated me thinking that there are milions of other little cultures in this world. I wish we can know more though. We know too little as humans.

Okay, back to topic.

I like how the the art in Minoan Crete emphasizes the simplicity as well as joy in their art, which is very rare, considering all the expressionless luxurious Egyptian paintings. I especially enjoy their appreciation towards nature around them, rather than worshipping the gods and finding their own identity.

My favourite is "The Springtime Fresco". The delicate outlines of the picture and the various colours explicitly expresses the worship the Minoan had towards nature. It is one of the earliest landscape drawings anywhere in the world. That just indicates how special the Minoan culture is.

This is my second favourite.

This vase has such a unique style that it amazes me. The people are not carved in profile, there are not any luxuries in the background, and it is not about anybody royal. My eyes were focused on their chanting and their laughter. I could almost hear their joy in harvesting. I could imagine their hyper and songs they sang as they got home carrying all their crops.

I am very surprised at this style, because most Egyptian doesn't have smiles on their faces and they focus on the afterlife and the activities. The Minoans definitely focus on their emotions more, which they should.

It's great.

About the Stonehenge in London

So I was reading this book my mom bought me about Art History.
It's called A World History of Art.(How very original..)Apparently it was recommended
It's very interesting, although deadly heavy.

I came upon the pages where it was talking about the Neolithic artifacts.
It was about the Stonehenge. I was fascinated by the magnificence of it. The atmosphere is so enigmatic, making you wonder over and over again what the purpose this is and how in the world did underdeveloped minds can possibily build something like that.




It is said in the book that it was aligned according on the locations of the horizons, and the movement of the sun and moon. Apparently the stones are placed on the exact spot of the sunrise and moonrise and where the sun and the moon are during a time interval. The intricate lining of the stones are amazing. The bluestones placed inside of the ring was definitely for a spiritual purpose but it is a wonder how the Neolithic people brought these stones between 6 and 8 feet to their exact planned location. I was also wondering how would they place such big stones vertically without any developed tool back then?





Personally, I just think this is an architecture that was built both intellectually and religiously. The authors of the book said that it was used to predict a 300-year cycled elipses. I think it would be very difficult because humans do not live for 300years to see a cycle. And the people back then would not know that there is an elipse every 300 years without proper way to transfer knowledge. I believe that there is a way of recording down the knowledge of the elipses somewhere within the artifacts. Maybe behind their aesthetic disguise, there is a sort of message about these things.
And second, about the purpose of creating this thing.
I believe that the older the people were from the times, the closer they are related to nature and the existence of gods. Although I am agnostic-meaning that I believe the existence of god is questionable-,I cannot help but to wonder about the origins of the "worshipping the gods" concept. Maybe somewhere during the evolution process of eventually becoming Homo Sapien Sapien, people are becoming closer to gods. Maybe the knowledge and the beginning of arts is a quality given by the gods, and that is where all this begun. But as times goes by , people are beginning to be distracted from the beauty that they forgot the true purpose.

But then again that is just my assumption. :)
Again just think about what they were thinking about when they were building this makes me feel so many things.

The reason for creating this blog

I can write anything for my other blog, why would I create this blog then?
The answer is simple.
I want there to be a corner where I can fully express my love for all the arts.
As many can see, my other blog is mainly focused on my life, my translations, my fanficitons, my originals, and game plus anime reviews. I've always watched to write something about the art works, the music, and the poems that I like, but there's never a chance because there is so many things that I want to write about with these magnificent culture and the products they produce.
So I created this blog,solely for everything there is to feel about arts.