Monday, October 20, 2008
The recent presidential campaigns have been quite entertaining up to this point, and I have noticed a focus develop throughout their course. It would seem that one candidate seeks to emphasize his age and experience in order to qualify himself for the presidency while the other attempts to focus on his youth as his strong point. This preoccupation with age and experience made me think of the Romans and the Greeks in terms of art. I draw a parallel between the first candidate mentioned and Roman art because age is taken for wisdom, and a tremendous amount of importance is placed on emphasizing the aging process, and being old. I draw another parallel between the second candidate mentioned and Greek art because both are meant to embody and ungodly youth and freshness.