Why is Greek art so important, and what sets it apart from other artistic eras?

The reason why Greek art is so important is that it has irreplaceable artistic value, which is fundamentally different from the art of other eras.

What philosophical ideas were the main influences of ancient Greek art and Western modernist artModern aesthetics refers to the period from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century, and aesthetics in the true sense began in modern times. In modern times, "form" has become an independent category in aesthetics, and has consciously and rationally risen to the level of the essence of art. Since the Renaissance, human nature has been revived and exalted, and reason has become the prescriptive nature of thought, which is a kind of poetic (creative) rationality that is different from the theoretical rationality of ancient Greece and the practical rationality of the Middle Ages.

As the "father of aesthetics", Baumgarten defined aesthetics as sensibility, and he also emphasized order, integrity, and perfection. Descartes' philosophical thought laid the foundation for modern thought, and he tried to grasp beauty from the epistemic relationship between subject and object. British empiricism and continental rationalism put forward aesthetic ideas from their respective dimensions.

As the founder of German idealistic aesthetics, Kant put forward and elaborated his concept of "transcendental form", believing that aesthetics has nothing to do with the existence and material of the object, and that beauty is based on the form of the object. For Kant, there is a clear demarcation between truth, goodness, and beauty, and art is not the same as truth. Kant laid an important ideological foundation for the development of Western formal aesthetics.

According to Hegel, beauty is the perceptual manifestation of the idea, and then the idea as the content, then the sensual manifestation belongs to the form. For Hegel, the realm of the art of beauty belongs to the realm of the absolute mind, and freedom is the highest quality of the mind. He said:

Freedom, in terms of its pure form, consists above all in the fact that the subject is not alien to what is opposed to itself, not to feel that it is a limit or a limitation, but to discover itself in that opposite. [2] Hegel sought to find freedom in this opposition. In short, in modern times, Western formal aesthetics have developed enormously, especially in the regard of form as pure and transcendental.

This influence goes far beyond the ideas of modern empiricist aesthetics about aesthetic experience and aesthetic consciousness.

The works of art left over from ancient Greece have gradually become models of classical art, because the gods (people) they portray have precise proportions, scientific anatomy, and near-perfect shapes, which cannot be surpassed by later generations. It became the benchmark of classical art, and later generations, including Renaissance art, used ancient Greece as the standard. Therefore, it is said that Greek art laid the foundation of Western classical art.

Because Western culture originated in Greece.

Renaissance art emphasized human nature, while ancient Greek art mainly emphasized God-centered, but literary Renaissance art was developed on the basis of ancient Greek art, and regained the painting techniques and concepts of the ancient Greek art period, such as perspective, most of the Renaissance artworks were extracted from ancient Greek mythology.

Function: The role is to shape the worship image, guide the faith, and have a decorative role.

It has been said that in the minds of cultured Europeans, the very mention of Greece evokes a sense of home. This is a very vivid illustration of the fact that ancient Greece was the birthplace of Western civilization.

In the 12th century BC, the Aegean civilization was severely damaged by the invasion of the northern barbarians. But the indomitable Greeks re-established the splendid Greek civilization on the ruins of this once rich civilization, and became the true ancestors of European civilization. The main characteristics of Greek art are all-encompassing harmony and regularity, as well as solemnity and serenity.

Its main symbol is the beauty of the human body, and the Greeks contributed unattainable artistic examples to mankind. In the minds of the Greeks, the most perfect man is God, so the Greeks respect man and raise him to the level of God to affirm that God and man are the same form.

Greek religion, architecture, human sculpture, etc., had a direct and huge impact on Western civilization.