Week 9: Sneh Shah- 'How Art Made the World'

I am not in great touch with media sources like TV, newspaper here. But I like to watch and download BBC/History channel documentaries on net. I found a wonderful documentary on "How Art Made the World". It starts with Egyptian arts and their unrealistic rigid sculptures. Greek adopted Egyptians culture of making statues and adds their style to create first ever realistic human statues. But this was just not enough. They add element of exaggeration to their art of work which made those sculpture unrealistic but more attractive. I have included a video which describes all of this. And it will help in exams too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-_Sim2AbM

As art progresses exaggeration became very important part of it. I think even today we see exaggeration in Art everywhere. Because that type of art attract us more than simple original art. Movies like Spiderman, Hulk, and Batman show us unrealistic human forms which are not at all possible. In some fashion show they wear clothes which make model look gorgeous but actually those clothes are not wearable. At some gardens or public places, they prefer unrealistic human figures for statues. It is our tendency to find more human than human in arts which lead us to this form of art.