How Has Religion Changed Art - 2645 Words

Daynah Grant Ms. Anttila Senior Workshop Part 3 Paper: How has Religion Changed art? What is art? It can be explained as a diverse building up of mortal activities. Art is the single thing that can change people by the thousands, millions, and billions. If we were to use words to describe exactly what art is we can say that it is: expression, beauty, different, love, technical, abstract, creativity, always changing, convincing, emotion, free, diverse, innovative and inspiring. Art has changed many people and gave humans what they need to morph into what they are now. Most of us don’t think of art as much, Most of us thinks that art has nothing to do with the world of today. If we look at the most basic of things we can see how†¦show more content†¦The earliest recorded of art was around 25000 BCE and before this time. This art included pieces like the Venus of Willendorf. The Venus of Willendorf is a figurine that was found in Austria featuring a female carved from limestone. This is not the only Venus figurine found, others were made with bone, ivory and clay. Also all of the Venus figurines have a diamond shaped. Many prehistoric art involved sculptures. A lot of Neolithic as said before cannot be proven as religious but this is starting off art we have today which we need to review over. Some prehistoric artwork includes the Jiahu Carvings, the Jiahu carvings were dated back to 7000 BCE and are made out of red crown crane bone. they ar e flutes with 5 to 8 holes these were supposedly used for rituals. Another piece of artwork can be known as the Niola Doa. The Niola Doa was found in Africa and is dated back to 3000 BCE. Let’s fast forward a couple thousand years, before the 1400s in the Middle Ages (also known as medieval times) we observe the concept of religious art. Back then the art had very unrealistic looks looking at the style of the art. This is when religious art really thrived. In medieval times the art style was gothic and much of the gothic style was influenced in the cathedrals in Europe today. As we see main focuses were on the church and there was nothing else. In This art, you can tell the major differences from the renaissance and the