List: The Art that Made Us | Curated by Remy Dean

Feb 9, 2022
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The Art that Made UsImportant 'monolith' moments in the History of Art that changed what was to come - a chronology of concepts...
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How Art Saves UsOur Art Odyssey Begins…
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The Three MothersThe very first renderings of human figures are three small statuettes of abundant women… did they save the human race?
Jul 23, 2019
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Prehistoric Graffiti?Our cave-dwelling ancestors decorated their walls with so many paintings of animals.  Why did they do that?
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The Ascent of CivilisationWhen humans built the first temples and towns, they filled them with art that expressed their values and intangible ideals…
Jun 21, 2020
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Ancient Beakers were Something NewGrave goods excavated from a vast necropolis at Susa, ancient Iran, changed visual language in a way that affects our graphics to this day…
Mar 29, 2020
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The Mythic MinoansKing Minos and the Minoans were a myth to the Ancient Greeks and remained the stuff of legend until their capital city was found.
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Akhenaten, The ‘Rock Star’ PharaohThe art of the Amarna Period (1353–1336 BCE) changed everything, and for them it was too much, too soon!
Sep 22, 2019
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Babylon, Ancient Champion of Equality?The ancient city of Babylon was not only famous for its Hanging Gardens, it was also home to the first known museum.
Oct 18, 2020
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More Human than Human?At the dawn of the Classical period, looking more closely at ourselves changed the way we saw others and the universe around us.
Oct 6, 2019
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Body BeautifulClassical Greek statues established the western paradigms of masculine and feminine (even bovine) beauty that have persisted to this day.
Nov 29, 2020
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Roman Statues in the Greek StyleFor half a millennium, the Roman Empire  was purveyor and destroyer of classical art and western culture…
Jul 12, 2020
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We Are the Golden RuleNearly all High Renaissance art and design was set out according to the Golden Section, embodied in Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’.
Sep 29, 2019
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A School (of Athens) ReunionRaphael painted the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance as they saw themselves — successors to the great classical Greek philosophers…
Feb 7, 2022
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Origin StoriesRight from the start, art was used to tell our stories — could the earliest examples of narrative image-making be our first ‘comic-books’?
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