Open Road
I took Art and Architecture classes all through Middle School and High School. I also took a few college courses in free hand drawing and enjoyed learning about Art Through The Ages in the late ’70’s.
I was enrolled in Arts and Humanities. I was in the zone. I had a friend who enjoyed playing chess when time permitted. I had a talented art and architecture instructor. He was Jewish and he once told me, when we were on a tour of Downtown’s tall structures for a day that, as we ascended in an elevator that this was about as close to Heaven as I would ever get.
I thought about that and realizing he was being literal. Some of the more modern structures in central cities are quite tall. They appear to touch the sky but not quite.
Taking classes in Arts and Humanities was one of the highlights of my early years as a college student. I was inspired by my instructors especially Irwin Gerwertz, because he was a man who was up front and took time with every student and really cared about us all being good at what we did and hopefully some of us might reach a height that exceeds the metaphorical height of the clouds above.
The classes I took were divided into different categories. One was Materials and Methods, learning to use certain medium to draw and paint and express our artistic and creative energies. Then there was a class in perspective drawing. I learned 3 point vanishing perspectives and oblique and isometric drawings.
There was a class in art history where we learned about how art and architecture were linked intrinsically through history from the very early days of the cave dwellers to the Roman empire and up to the present. With the book, Art Through The Ages, our instructor took us through history from day one to the here and now.
But books were not enough for me. I wanted to learn more by seeing things first hand. I could not afford a trip to Paris or London or Rome. But a good friend of mine managed a trip to Europe and he sent me post cards. I realized that the only way to understand architecture and art, including sculpture, paintings and graphic art as well as landscape design one would have to leave the BOX of inner city books and classrooms and venture out into the world and look at the world like a visitor from another world, taking time to feel, see, hear and taste the elements of what Arts and Humanities really had to offer on a world wide scale.
I only managed to travel within the USA in my car. I only managed to touch the surface of this great big blue world we live on. I only managed to see the various topographical and geological variances of the states north and north-west and some states north-east of Dallas, Texas. By traveling to several states I was able to begin to understand the true scale of the land and become more acutely aware of how we as city dwellers tend to live in isolation from reality and that getting out side the box was good therapy for me.
I realized from my few travels in my old car that there were many many old towns, country houses, farms, ranches, and mainly lots and lots of open country that stretched as far as the eyes could see.
Then when I returned home for the first time after a 2 week trip that not only was my room at my parent’s house quite small but the city itself a concentration of cars, people and with that, a mental state that is common to those who never venture out beyond the limits of their own little worlds, a sense of isolation from the universe at large.
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Roman art and architecture both are famous all over the world because they mater of making statues of stone and lime looks like real but no soul otherwise real human being. Keats the English poet has also written an Ode to Grecian Urn. The mater piece poem of Keats on Roman art in the history of English Literature.
actually, Roman art refers to the visual arts made in Ancient Rome and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Roman art includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.
Augustus and the Julio-Claudian dynasty were particularly fond of adapting Classical elements into their art. The Augustus of Primaporta was made at the end of Augustus’s life, yet he is represented as youthful, idealized and strikingly handsome like a young athlete; all hallmarks of Classical art. The emperor Hadrian was known as a philhellene, or lover of all things Greek.
The emperor himself began sporting a Greek “philosopher’s beard” in his official portraiture, unheard of before this time. Décor at his rambling Villa at Tivoli included mosaic copies of famous Greek paintings, such as Battle of the Centaurs and Wild Beasts by the legendary ancient Greek painter Zeuxis.
No body knows who invented the Roman Art but We don’t know much about who made Roman art. Artists certainly existed in antiquity but we know very little about them, especially during the Roman period, because of a lack of documentary evidence such as contracts or letters. What evidence we do have, such as Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, pays little attention to contemporary artists and often focuses more on the Greek artists of the past. As a result, scholars do not refer to specific artists but consider them generally, as a largely anonymous group.