People create art for many different reasons. It can be to reflect on their worldview, their place in time. To record historical data. Or to create what it is they were seeing around them. It was often used to express ideas, and expand on current ones.
In an example of a more expressive reasoning, such as the romantics during the Industrial revolution, where their everyday life was a waking nightmare. The lower class citizens around them worked for almost no pay, had horrendous living and working conditions. As a result of the large amount of people that moved to the city and the many factories that the cities were often built upon, pollution became an everyday occurrence. It would be a horribly dreary scene to constantly see.
With such an awful scenery around them the Romantics grew an increasing fear that their point in history was the height of human reason. They turned away from that the enlightenment’s appeal to reason and instead, branched a new idea off of Rousseau’s the noble savage. Rousseau …show more content…
In Michelangelo’s Pieta, it’s easy to see the religious portion, of Mary holding her lifeless son, but the statue is strikingly similarity to the Hellenistic statues of the classic age. The statue of the Dying Gaul, by Epigonus (Sayre pg.78) the highly realistic position, where he appears to be pushing away from his death, and the resigned expression, each similar to the Pieta, Mary doesn’t appear very sad, just resigned to her child’s fate. Jesus on the other hand appears to be falling towards the ground, and the only thing keeping him up is Mary although it appears that Jesus is pushing towards his death, Mary is not yet ready to let go. Every detail of both sculptures is methodically mapped out, and both statues follow the rules of idealism, fairly unrealistic standards of the human
In an example of a more expressive reasoning, such as the romantics during the Industrial revolution, where their everyday life was a waking nightmare. The lower class citizens around them worked for almost no pay, had horrendous living and working conditions. As a result of the large amount of people that moved to the city and the many factories that the cities were often built upon, pollution became an everyday occurrence. It would be a horribly dreary scene to constantly see.
With such an awful scenery around them the Romantics grew an increasing fear that their point in history was the height of human reason. They turned away from that the enlightenment’s appeal to reason and instead, branched a new idea off of Rousseau’s the noble savage. Rousseau …show more content…
In Michelangelo’s Pieta, it’s easy to see the religious portion, of Mary holding her lifeless son, but the statue is strikingly similarity to the Hellenistic statues of the classic age. The statue of the Dying Gaul, by Epigonus (Sayre pg.78) the highly realistic position, where he appears to be pushing away from his death, and the resigned expression, each similar to the Pieta, Mary doesn’t appear very sad, just resigned to her child’s fate. Jesus on the other hand appears to be falling towards the ground, and the only thing keeping him up is Mary although it appears that Jesus is pushing towards his death, Mary is not yet ready to let go. Every detail of both sculptures is methodically mapped out, and both statues follow the rules of idealism, fairly unrealistic standards of the human