As what I've understand in Group 1's report, Ancient Art basically centered in realistic or naturalistic approach to style. They depict what their human eye can see in the natural world. They never distort, change or exaggerate the things that they can see around them. They used people as their model and they just used whatever there is around them as their medium. They didn't make their art extravagant, for they didn't have anything back then except for stones, woods, and metals. Their art is, yes, SIMPLE!
And that is one thing that captured my attention in Ancient Art. Because they made those cave paintings, sculptures and etc, not to impress or to show how artistic they are, but they made those for us, the modern generation or the succeeding generation, to know what kind of lifestyle they had back then. For the succeeding generation to know and follow what they used to do and observed, so that the next generation would know what to do—their rituals and daily routines—and not to be lost. For documentation and such. They didn't make it very artistically, but for as long as one can understand and interpret it for himself, that would do. And for them, it is something they need to do, not just what they want. For everything has its own purpose.
That's what I want to inherit from them. To do my own artwork with a purpose. Just like them, they just made those carvings unaware that we look at it as an art while they look at it as a record of their activities or as a documentation. We should also think that way, to just be natural, express ourselves in a realistic way, be ourselves and let the viewers to interpret and to judge how artistic we are while we just expressed our real selves. Have a purpose in every action or artwork we do. By this, it'll be easier to create an artwork really shows who you are and it'll be easy to be artistic if you're not just acting.Being natural shows how artistic a person is, though for you it has a purpose not knowing that you had just made an unintentional artwork.
