Arts

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Pottery like this one is very common in Greece.======

The Greeks made very realistic statues and paintings. Back then, the only colors the Greeks used were black and red. Greek painting is admired for their detail and realism.

Pottery was used for everyday use. Some of there arts are still seen in museums today.Greeks wanted to show beauty and perfection in sculpting and painting.They used stone and marble to sculpt. Black and red colors was mostly used in pottery.When the Greeks made status they thought it was better that the people wear no clothes because they wanted to bring out the beauty in them and thought there bodies were perfect. The Greeks painting backgrounds were black and the rest was red.

At the Metropolitan Museum they have a lot of the ancient Greek art like pottery.I really liked this one vase called Attic red-figured caly x heater. It was made about 515 B.C.It was signed by the painter Euphronic and by the potter Euxitheos.

Pottery like this one is very common in Greece. In this vase, it shows a minotaur and a person.
Praxiteles worked on marble statues in the mid 4th century.One of the statues is called sculptor its a famous statue now in the museum at Olympia,Greece.Gold,silver,bronze,amber,and gem are some of the materials the Greeks used. The ancient Greeks used marbles, limestones, rocks and if they didn't have those materials, they had to use clay. They made earrings,armbands,buckles,brooches,and rings too. They also made beside pottery, sculptures, plays, buildings and paintings.

Ancient Greeks created art because they were inspired by their gods, goddess, and heroes. They were also influenced on the formation of the Western Cultures. If there was no Art in Greeks civilization then they would have never have gods and heroes to be inspired. .

They made statues but they perferred the people to motel naked because they thought there bodies were perfect.

The Greeks wanted to show off their arts because their statues or painting were admired for its realism. They only used red and black because they wanted to show accents and effect, which was not shown very often. They did not use paper but they did use stone or pottery to draw on. There were wall paintings but not that many. There were mostly wall sculptures all over temples and important buildings. Greeks were passionate about art because of their realism and detail like sculptors try to make their sculpture so real like the human body.