Greek Art History Class Le's Prior Hope

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The human experienced thousands and millions of conflicts and violence during whole history of mankind. Some of them included massacre with wars and battles and many people suffered through the violence. Sadly, there are so many conflicts and violence all over the world. Ground-zero from 9.11 which now became one of the most famous tourist attractions is a good example for this idea. Consequently, people of the world tried to pursue the peace and security for themselves and they tried to express their hope with various ways, such as music, movies, artworks, architecture, and so on. Moreover, the hope for peace by people over the world transcended the time and location so we can find many evidences from anywhere and anytime. In Art History class …show more content…

Gordon Chang (Chapter 1 & Chapter 13) First of all, I sure believe that artworks from prehistoric period show the basic instincts of human. In other words, the prehistoric arts have no imprisonment with human’s selfish interests and desires. To tell the truth, most people in history always tried to enjoy their selfish interests and desires through many negative ways, such as wars. It is sure to say human’s greed and selfishness bring a lot of violence and conflicts so they harm the security and peace of mankind. However, in prehistory, people used to focus on primitive instinct rather than selfish greed. Some people might say the prehistoric era is non-civilized period with chaos, but I do not think so. Of course they never experienced highly qualified civilization or industrial revolution, but they sure maintained their peace and security in their own way. “Hall of the Bulls” in the …show more content…

The Great Sphinx was guarded Temple in Egypt. The huge Sphinx of Pharaoh’s face and body of lion is sitting with Pyramid of Khafre in the background at left in Giza. This Sphinx was the first colossus in Egypt. The body of lion of Great Sphinx is a symbol of loyalty and sun. Great Sphinx is a symbol of Pharaoh's power, wisdom, the order of the universe that is defined and peace through body of lion and Pharaoh's face. Also, the hood on the head of the Great Sphinx is a symbol of the Pharaoh, and this expressed brave and dignity. Great Sphinx can look at the rising sun, and Sphinx looked more than a million times to sight of sunrise. Great Sphinx was symbolized of justice and peace and order under the

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