Term Papers on Art And Its Function In Depicting History

Term Paper Title	Art And Its Function In Depicting History
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Art and Its Function in Depicting History

            This artwork depicts a battle between the Assyrians and the Elamites. The piece is a relief, and the artist used several methods to display this event on a two dimensional surface.  These methods may appear strange to people of today, however; they were the common methods used in this time period.  The artist used three main conventions to depict the battle, and they were pose, size, and the relative points of view.

            The first technique used by the artist was the poses of the characters in the relief. The characters for the most part were displayed in mostly natural poses. For instance, The soldiers on the ground with their shields raised over their heads and daggers in their hands are depicted in a very natural pose. Their entire bodies were shown in profile, and their pose conveyed action and movement.  The soldiers at the top of the relief are in profile as well, and they show action as well by having their bows drawn and ready to strike as opposed to laying unused at their sides.  The men in the middle of the relief convey death by two main techniques. The first, and the most obvious of these two is the fact that they are depicted falling downward as if they were wounded.  The second, however is less noticeable, but equally important.  These men have a much different pose than any other in the relief, they are less rigid, and they look as though they have now control over what their bodies are doing. These poses are for the most part how the actual battle would have looked to someone who was there. The only real difference is in the relief the characters are shown in extremely similar poses.

            The second technique is size, and what size me...

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