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The Nature of Art
Dino Karapittis
“Many artists seek colour, value, intensity, and beauty. Millions of people spend hours at a time enjoying these aspects of art. People may ask, "Where did it all begin?"
The answer lies over 4,200 years ago in the Ancient Greek civilisation where they then influenc ....
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.... there are no remaining bronze statues, there are copies of these statues in stone and marble made by the Romans.
“The term for art in Greek (tekhne) and Latin (ars) does not specifically denote the 'fine arts' in the modern sense, but was applied to all kinds of human activities. Art was characterised by Aristotle as a kind of activity based on knowledge and governed by rules. An individual became a painter or a sculptor, or a shoemaker, by learning the rules of the trade.”
The Greeks applied rules as a means of bringing order to the perceived chaos of nature and the worl ....
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