Art Expression Gallery: Greece

ARTIST'S EXPRESSION

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is literacy of the heart.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

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Art #29: Parthenon (Architecture)

447 BC, Acropolis Museum, Acropolis of Athens, Ancient Greece, Athens, British Museum, Greece, Greek, Greek art, Parthenon

Parthenon is an old temple found in Greece at the Athenian Acropolis. This temple is dedicated to the Goddess Athena of the Greeks. This is one of the valued temple of Greece. It was constructed about 447 BC and was completely don in 438 BC. In Greek art, Parthenon is also considered as excellent work of art and a true masterpiece. It is also an enduring symbol among Ancient Greece. It's architectural design is really a great mark of excellent ideas among the Ancient Greeks. The structural design and artistry is unique and remarkable.