Evidence of Platonic Ideals Communicated Through Ancient Greek Statues
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SummaryThe Platonic idealist is the man who by
nature so wedded to perfection that
he sees in everything not the reality
but the faultless ideal which the
reality misses…”
- George Santayana (1)
Art is subject to interpretation. Each and every work of art, from theatre, to music to literature, to painting, to statues, can be manipulated by the observer to strike some chord within them; be it positive, negative, or merely just a neutral sense of recognition.
For the purpose of this paper the artwork subject to interpretation are two ancient Greek statues: Zeus throwing a (missing) thunderbolt, cast in bronze, and a marble sculpture of Hermes with the infant Dionysus.
key words-Dionysus, Zeus, Hermes and Greeks
nature so wedded to perfection that
he sees in everything not the reality
but the faultless ideal which the
reality misses…”
- George Santayana (1)
Art is subject to interpretation. Each and every work of art, from theatre, to music to literature, to painting, to statues, can be manipulated by the observer to strike some chord within them; be it positive, negative, or merely just a neutral sense of recognition.
For the purpose of this paper the artwork subject to interpretation are two ancient Greek statues: Zeus throwing a (missing) thunderbolt, cast in bronze, and a marble sculpture of Hermes with the infant Dionysus.
key words-Dionysus, Zeus, Hermes and Greeks
Table of Contents- For the purpose of this paper the artwork subject to interpretation are two ancient Greek statues.
- Plato strongly believed that children played a crucial role in society.
- Plato believed that ant sort of artistic rendering that depicted the gods was inherently false.
- Plato believed that the battles of the gods shouldn't be revealed to children.
- According to Plato, the role of art in the education of the young should be to instill within them the virtue of temperance.
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