great teachers long ago - creating meaning in art
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Great Teachers Long Agoby Mary Erickson
Great Teachers Long Ago
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Great Teachers Long Agoby Mary Erickson
Head of Aphrodite
The people of ancient Greece believed in the powers of avariety of gods. This sculpture shows Aphrodite, thegoddess of love.
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Red-figure Kylix
In their Olympic Games, ancient Greeks celebrated thephysical abilities of people. This vessel shows a youngalthete.
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Black-Figure Neck Amphora
Greek gods were a lot like people. It was important toplease them. This oil or wine vessel shows Poseidon, thegod of the sea, driving a chariot.
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Zeus
The ancient Greeks believed that Zeus created the world. Here we see him with an eagle in one hand and athunderbolt in the other.
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Head of a Bearded Man
The teachings of three Greeks, Plato (428 - 348 BCE),Socrates (470/469 - 399 BCE) and Aristotle (334 - 322BCE) set the philosophical foudations of WesternCivilization.
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Standing Buddha
in 326 BCE, Alexander the Great conquered lands as FarEast as eastern India, now Pakistan. He brought with himGreek sculptural Ideas that influenced sculpture in India,such as this figure of Buddha.
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Standing Buddha
Although the Buddha was born in India, his teachingbecame important in China. This Chinese sculpture showsinfluence of earlier Induan Buddhist sculpture.
Buddha taught that peace can come from mediation --being in the here and now, not distracted by thoughts of thepast or future.
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Listening to the Waterfall
About the same time as Buddha (563 - 483 BCE) wasteaching in India, two important thinkers, Lao Tzu andConfucious, were teaching in China.
Lao Tse (c. 570-498 BCE) taught that if one could clearone's mind, one could become open to "the way" (the Dao).Some believe that Confucius (551-479 BCE) learned fromLao Tzu, who inspired his ideas about how people shouldrelate to each other within a system of heirarchy andrespect.
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Landscape at P'ing-shan Pavilion
In Daoist art, people do not conquer or control nature butlive in harmony within it.
Can you find the two men and the building in this painting?You may need to zoom in to find them.
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Misty River and Layered Peaks
If you zoom in very close to this painting you can also seetwo men and a building.
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Swan and Cygnets
Chinese art often celebrates things in nature, like this swanwith her baby riding on her back.
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Chestnuts
Or this branch with seed pods.
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