Art is definitely an aptitude which is not learnt immediately but which requires painstaking time and effort to arrive at a given destination. Obviously one cannot become an artist just like that and it is important to be instructed accordingly and to receive training in various fields before a proper conclusion is reached and one can truly call oneself an artist. The attendance of art university is thus crucial to anyone who has these sort of aspirations in life as it is also extremely important to be able to make the right choices when faced with the dilemma of a future career.
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The experience of university is also rather unique. You get to make new friends and mix around with different personalities thus learning from life and intensifying your life experiences. You also get considerable exposure to what art is really like as your tutors and instructors will probably be artists of the highest level and these are able to share their experiences with you and you will learn incredibly from what they impart to you. Finally university life brings about a new social dimension which calls for a different approach to life in the sense that you may feel that everyone is putting pressure on you to become something or someone but this is definitely not the case if you apply yourself to university life accordingly.
Greek and Roman architecture have similar traits between them but they are also different in many ways. Perhaps the finest examples of architecture in this sense are the Colosseum in Rome and the Temple of Athena in Greece. Each has a distinct style which brings together the natural characteristics of both works with the Greek focused mainly on Doric columns and a certain mysticism. The Colosseum on the other hand is a huge structure with considerable prowess and the capacity to thrill. The public buildings all had their ways and means to attract people but they were largely the focus of other stories in the sense that they attracted a certain level of people to their fold.
The Temple of Athena is probably the most beautiful and most important piece of architecture built in Ancient Greece. With its vast network of columns and arches, the temple comes across as extremely powerful and wonderful in more ways than one. It also personifies the Greek’s love of Athena who was the Goddess of Love and who would always be at the centre of their activity. The temple is built with a typical Doric structure in mind and has the finest features of Greek architecture in it. Principally it is a rather dominant style with a strong and mindful outset and full of little nooks and crannies which personify its beauty. The material used is also consonant with what used to be used in those days with large structures, material such as marble and graphite. The temple is also full of strikingly original features such as sliding columns and intricate design on its frontage.
However the Temple of Athena remains most famous for its striking location and beauty. It sheer size is also an important issue when discussing it aesthetically as it also means that the temple appealed very well to those who wanted to come up with a vision of grandeur and greatness. This also meant that the architectural style was rarefied and original demonstrating that art can be huge and enormous but also pretty powerful too. Finally the Temple of Athena is a beautiful example of sculpture and architecture in its finest form with rarefied beauty being the first aspect of all this design. The Greek architectural firmament was undoubtedly addressed by this issue in more ways than one and the Temple of Athena is a living example of all that.
The Colosseum is a gigantic theatre with an original design basically a three dimensional form of art. It contains several innovative techniques for those times which includes the fact the audience seats are in a sliding format. The materials used vary from normal stone to graphite with several different characteristics combining together to form one real whole.
The Colosseum was intrinsically used for the vast Roman games where gladiators and other exhibits would fight often to the death in the arena which often ended up reeking and strewn with blood and victim’s carcasses. Seeing it today, one would not actually appreciate the noise that it made in its heyday with the elliptical shape of the theatre amplifying the sound in many ways.
The theatre represented the power of Rome which actually the dominant empire at the time. This was brought about principally by its location in central Rome but it also formed part ofa series of architectural monuments which were located in the same part of the Roman city centre. In its own way, the Colosseum demonstrated power and tyranny as well as the factor of grandeur which was used several times and actually milked by famous emperors such as Nero and Trajan. Finally the functionality of the Colosseum remains intrinsically one of theatre projection and in this sense it succeeded magnificently. The combination of vast spaces with packed audiences must have been quite an experience for all those who were in the theatre experiencing the gory bloodshed and the games in their own way. It is truly a brilliant example of architectural functionality at its brilliant best.
References:
Coarelli, Filippo (1989). Guida Archeologica di Roma. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. ISBN 88-04-11896-2.
