Greek Bronzes and the Rise of Artistic Realism: Power and Pathos Exhibit

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@kozzy18 9 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ, that guy's hair style is a piece of art work.

@hughtub 9 жыл бұрын

+kozzy18 Modern art maybe.

@susantunbridge4612 Жыл бұрын

poodle

@blujay1524 9 жыл бұрын

I wish we lived in a time where artists were required to have talent

@MadKingOfMadaya 2 жыл бұрын

*_You're right_*

@tsummerlee 9 жыл бұрын

The rise before the fall. Wish I could see this exibition.

@Heavenlydreamer 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you this helps me #remember

@santiagowechsler 9 жыл бұрын

Where is this.????? I want to see them

@SacrumImperiumRomanum 9 жыл бұрын

It is interesting how the dark age following the collapse of the Micenaen kingdom led to the creation of the Greek Polis experiments in liberty. Similarly, Rome too thought that they could protect liberty by creating a constitutional central government. But centralized states soon crept back to imperialistic levels and only then did people look back to the individual and philosophise about the state of things and discuss the nature of societies. If only we had learned from their mistakes. The US was designed on both the Greek and Roman relinquishing of inidividual sovereignty to a coercive state. Until we find freedom apart from it, it will always grow like the parasite that it is.

@s0nnyburnett 9 жыл бұрын

+That Libertarian Chap Fools seldom differ.

@kanawa 9 жыл бұрын

+That Libertarian Chap " The US was designed on both the Greek and Roman relinquishing of individual sovereignty to a coercive state." The US was designed to protect individual sovereignty (Freedom) from a coercive state. It placed the Individual above the State and made the State subservient to the Individual Unfortunately, like many other constructs and systems, it is only as good as the people in charge of protecting it from corruption. Corrupt, selfish, power hungry, amoral individuals can infiltrate the system and use it for their own base desires and ends. As has been said, Freedom is never more than one generation away from being extinguished. " Until we find freedom apart from it"... a rather nebulous solution...what does that mean in concrete terms?

@SacrumImperiumRomanum 9 жыл бұрын

Tom Tilley The Founding Fathers explicitly designed the US Constitution on the Roman concept of Republic but with a federal element to allow for competition of states as in Greece. Also, you say that this was designed to place the individual above the State and yet, by design, 'amoral individuals can infiltrate the system and use it for their own base desires'; this is a complete contradiction, as is the US Constitution itself.

@susantunbridge4612 Жыл бұрын

They also modelled the US on Britain's system. No separate head of state though.

@babakopoulo 3 жыл бұрын

Who is this man who speak for Greek art with such appearence ? My god...

@denfilm6005 3 ай бұрын

Does anyone know what alloys were used to create these statues? What is the minimum thickness of the bronze?

@beli3636 9 жыл бұрын

Such was the creativity, the unique and as yet unsurpassed ability to express the human soul, through sculpture and otherwise, possessed by the masters of Greek civilization. What the world has lost as a result of the deliberate destruction of this civilization (including its remnants and their nations, ongoing, to this day), will seldom be fathomed by we of the modern age. The same fate has been suffered by every high civilization our species has ever produced throughout our known history. A destructive pattern no doubt suffered, as well, by many more civs which predate the known. This pattern has prevailed, time and again intervening and arresting the true development and potential of our species, as well as our connection to nature, each other, our singularity with the universe and one another. The conventional explanations given by accredited academia for the fall of these civilizations fail to take into account the underlying mystery. No surprise to see some of the shallow, thoughtless commentary left by some for this short vid. The inability to realize or understand the very topic discussed, the eagerness to crudely comment on the hair of a presenter, the "fools rarely differ" comment... Sadly endemic of the crippled, immature, short-sighted, blighted, avaricious nature of our so called "modern era".

@jebstuart4004 5 жыл бұрын

those eyes ! Don t wake up at night with a candle😱. The little "amour" cupidon found asleep is amazing.

@joebonardi2650 4 жыл бұрын

The Raice bronzes...always left out. Criminal.

@νικοςπαπαδοπουλος-σ6ι 9 жыл бұрын

I LOVE GREECE AND I LOVE TO BE GREEK

@MadKingOfMadaya 2 жыл бұрын

*_U r turkish_*

@ekim2512 9 жыл бұрын

I think I read somewhere that a lot of these statues were lost to history when the were melted down for their metal during the decline of the Roman Empire. Does anyone know anything about that?

@beli3636 9 жыл бұрын

+Mike Shelton Several factors contribute to the loss of what surely must have been the greatest specimens of artistic expression the Hellenistic world and Classical Greece had created. Short version (most germane): Initial Roman conquest; Sanctioned desecration under the post-Constantinian Christian Roman state. And, of course, the following Islamic Ottoman conquest of the Byzantines, deprived the world of ever gazing upon the majority of these sculptures, bronzes, and other various artworks of the Greeks (and others, for that matter). While some earthquakes no doubt factored into the destruction of the 7 ancient wonders, I doubt they were responsible for all. 'Twas no earthquake that destroyed the Library of Alexandria, for that matter... As a child, looking upon so many smashed statues up close, it never immediately occurred to me to reckon as to why. It seemed a reality taken for granted by all. The brutality that was visited upon these works of art, by the zealotry of the Christians, warrants, I think, special mention. The phenomena of a minority of zealots destroying their own ancestors' greatest artistic expression of their very souls, thanks to the intolerance and sickness of mind brought about by the adherents of an imposed, alien, extremist religious ideology, with the full sanction of the post-Constantian Roman state, no less... Astounding. More than enough were duped into destroying the best of what their own civilization had created. The sculptures and "graven images" that were so sought out for destruction, though treasures to all mankind, now lost forever, count for little compared to the overall effect these zealots had on their own civilization and the world in general. All of Europa would come to incur this sad fate to varying degrees, in time. Of course, there were many other contributing factors which came before and after. Some of the more notable: Looting after the initial Roman conquest. When the Romans used their newly conquered, random Graecian workers to load the statues they were looting unto their ships, the workers were allegedly told that if they broke the statues, they'd be made to sculpt another. So goes the joke, anyhow... While southern Italy has some of the best preserved Greek temples, desecrated of their meaning under Christian rule nonetheless, perhaps a very small fraction of the original statues, bronzes, and various artworks remain, intact, presently. The Ottoman Turks finished off most of whatever was left, in all nations under its domain. They (sultans, beys, governors, etc), adhering to their own greed and a similarly extremist religious ideology which also forbids "graven images" had no problem dismantling what was left of temples to build the mundane, or otherwise seek out and profit from whatever they could get their hands on.