How Did Ancient Greek Culture Influence Western Art And Culture

The classical era in Ancient Greece helped shape western art and culture, this moved on into creating a modern and humanist era. Greeks looked to sculptors and statues to illustrate the classical ideals through the various eras and how Ancient Greece developed a world view.

Greeks developed a strong belief in classical ideals in how for and representation should be in their culture. The Greeks moulded their world through the influences of art such as paintings, sculptures and temples. Ancient Greece became the precursor of art in the third era, the architects of the Classical age.

From the Archaic age major developments moved Ancient Greece forward in the Classical era. Sculptures began to develop from being Stationary and solid to a more

The battle between whether photography was or wasn’t art was difficult at the time of its surface.

Photography captured the real and captured a moment such as a painting would do, but was also not accepted as the real. As you could view the image of a place or time and could have never have been present of seen that location in reality.

There was a thin line between the truth it conveyed but also a false reality due to the fact it captured images in the same way a painting could.

Critics felt photography could not be placed in the same genre as Art as in the 19th century Art was created by the talented and captured through hand made paintings, sculptures and drawings. To take a photograph required practically no skill or talent supposedly giving anyone the ability to take a photo (create art).

“for the fist time, it was possible the ordinary person to record his or her life with certainty and to create personal archives for future generations” – Nicholas Mirzoeff. Photography in the Renaissance had captured an ordinary person in their world through ideal representation, and allowed anyone to document their own life without needing to be a powerful or famous