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Ancient Greece and the Chavín in Peru.
To serve a ritual function.
The animals are more realistically drawn than the humans.
Perspective
The question is "What is art?"
And the answer is likely to be subjective, because some forms of symbolic or representational art may not have any apparent meaning to some of its audience. The creation of abstract art, "junkyard sculpture" and more recently the ephemeral "performance art" all stretch the definition beyond its classical roots.
Even daily scenes could please the gods since they governed everything.
Euphronios and Phidias were artists who lived in Ancient Greece.
It represents an ancient star chart.
What is the artisit trying to communicate to the viewer
Cimabue broke the conventions of Byzantine art by giving his figuers a more natural appearance.
the human figure and motion.
He explored emotional rather than physical reality.
Byzantine
shown in lifelike poses.
the men have clear individual characteristics
Abstraction
The Altamira cave paintings
linear perspective
