Humans are bound together through experiences and events that we share and emotions that we feel. This could be anything from birth and death, to love and hate, and can even go as far as the things we study and learn. These things can be traced from the current times and back to when the first humans walked the Earth.This bond we share as humans is known as the human condition. The human condition is not something that can be summed up easily, because it covers such a vast part of human life. All throughout history we can see that humans seem to have a desire for beauty. Take for instance the Mimbres people of southern New Mexico. They existed some time between 100 AD and 1150 AD. The Mimbres relied heavily on hunting and gathering for survival.
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Flash forward several hundred years to 1480, when the Birth of Venus, by Botticelli was created. It shows the creation of Venus (i.e. Aphrodite), the Greek and Roman goddess of love and beauty. In the painting is shows a full grown Aphrodite, arriving from the ocean, posed on a great shell. Around her is two wind gods that aided her arrival to the shore, and nymph moving to cover the goddesses exposed form. Aphrodite is thought to be the most beautiful goddess of all of the Olympians. This show how …show more content…
Botticelli, himself, created the painting to prove that non-Christian painting could be seen as beautiful, since most paintings during the Renaissance were themed around Christianity. In a similar painting from 1860, is Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Leon Gerome. The painting depicts the the Greek tale of Pygmalion who had created a sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he fell in love with it. He prayed to Aphrodite, and she brought his statue to life for him. In the painting it shows Pygmalion embracing and kissing Galatea, who is mid-way through transforming from stone to flesh. Near by is, the child of Aphrodite, Eros the god of love and human desire. The artist does well in not only creating a beautiful piece of art, but capturing Pygmalion's own desire and search for beauty. Moving into a more modern era we look at Keith Sonnier's and Simon Rodia works. Sonnier creates pieces that are meant to involve the viewers as well the surrounding environment. In his work Motodom he has fashioned neon colored lights to a building's outside lobby. He is trying to express the many cars that are in California, by having the lights mimic the tail lights that
Flash forward several hundred years to 1480, when the Birth of Venus, by Botticelli was created. It shows the creation of Venus (i.e. Aphrodite), the Greek and Roman goddess of love and beauty. In the painting is shows a full grown Aphrodite, arriving from the ocean, posed on a great shell. Around her is two wind gods that aided her arrival to the shore, and nymph moving to cover the goddesses exposed form. Aphrodite is thought to be the most beautiful goddess of all of the Olympians. This show how …show more content…
Botticelli, himself, created the painting to prove that non-Christian painting could be seen as beautiful, since most paintings during the Renaissance were themed around Christianity. In a similar painting from 1860, is Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Leon Gerome. The painting depicts the the Greek tale of Pygmalion who had created a sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he fell in love with it. He prayed to Aphrodite, and she brought his statue to life for him. In the painting it shows Pygmalion embracing and kissing Galatea, who is mid-way through transforming from stone to flesh. Near by is, the child of Aphrodite, Eros the god of love and human desire. The artist does well in not only creating a beautiful piece of art, but capturing Pygmalion's own desire and search for beauty. Moving into a more modern era we look at Keith Sonnier's and Simon Rodia works. Sonnier creates pieces that are meant to involve the viewers as well the surrounding environment. In his work Motodom he has fashioned neon colored lights to a building's outside lobby. He is trying to express the many cars that are in California, by having the lights mimic the tail lights that