Learning Art From The Past

Starting with early cavemen scratching their etchings on mountain and cave walls

, each culture and people have left reminders of who they were and what daily life was like by the art they left behind. Some cultures left their marks with their pottery, others with elaborate sculptures and fountains, what ever the era whatever the culture all leave their mark on the design and craftsmen of today. We are a conglomerate of what has passed before. It would be impossible to more forward with art without going backwards and see where we have been. Truly great artist take their cue from the masters of time past including the masters of nature.

Art schools all begin with studying the great who have left their footprints in the sand for all to appreciate and explore. Why do we all know the names of Van Gogh, Renoir, Michelangelo,

Matisse, Degas, Cezanne? Because they changed art forever. Study the past to make your mark on the future, that not only holds true for art but for other areas of study as well. We learn from the past and we move forward. How do we know about the Mayan cultures? The Incas? The Anastasia? It is through their artifacts that have been preserved and studied. How do we know about ancient Greece or Rome or Egypt? Through the buried artwork found in funeral burials and hidden chambers. We learn much about societies, cultures and people by their works of creative art.

What will be people say about our civilization by studying our art 500 years from now? We take stainless steel sheets, weathered wood, rusty car parts and clay and make beautiful sculptures, designs and artifacts that speak of an industrialized nation that still finds beauty and goodness in the things around us. We take these raw materials or machined materials and make things that will stand the test of time and taste and critics. We make functional art and we make impressionistic art that speaks of our day and our time and our challenges to those that will come hereafter.

From South American Inca burials sites, to an impressive Egyptian exhibit at the Louvre, I have seen art that speaks of people and cultures long since past but that are still alive and well in us as artist as we strive to make things of beauty and that connect with other humans both present and future.

by: Art Gib

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