Ancient Greek Art History

Although this is only the second week, it should be said, that as this course continues to progress from one week to another it has really has been an exciting learning experience. The objectives thus far for this course continue to force one to look deeper into what one might have thought about art and its history, to really the many variations of it and in reality changing ones perspectives as it relates to art. Last week, it was thought that understanding the history of art and its ability to convey a message and/or tell a story was interesting, but this week and the topics covered within, almost seemed to tell a story in itself with the review and objective surrounding the prehistory, first civilization, and Ancient Greece eras. One of the concepts that was found to be most interesting this week was the architecture that developed from the Mesopotamia period and of course from Ancient Greece, which was pointed out not only in the reading material, but discussion questions …show more content…
It is difficult to believe that that stone structures such as, Stonehenge that was done around 2550-1600 BCE and others originated essentially that long ago and the physical labor that went into creating these great structures of such a huge magnitude (Kleiner, 2014). As one was researching for the discussion question the different styles of architecture and the influence it has on modern day, it was not realized how much influence there is indeed. As was pointed out in the discussion question it is interesting how many government buildings have columns that are influenced by the Greek styles such as, Doric. Just thinking that there has to be some kind of correlation between the symbolism of power and what the government buildings