MINOS PAINTING ART

MINOS PAINTING ART

 B.C.  From the late 3000 BC.  The Minoan Civilization, which lasted until the end of 2000 and is generally called Aegean or Pre-Hellenic, lived its golden age in 2000 BC with the palaces built in places such as Knossos, Phaistos, Malia and Zakros.  There is no monumental sculpture in Minoan Crete.  Even the gods were often made in small sizes, finely carved from ivory.

 Cretan art is the art of painting and polychrome decoration.  B.C.  Around 2000, natural plant stylizations, whose technical secret is still unknown and attracting attention with their changing color qualities, are seen in home decorations.  B.C.  While geometric stylization decreases in the multi-colored decorations of the characteristic 'Camares vases' of the 19th century, plant decorations and marine animals begin to come to the fore. Gritian artists showed great skill and skill in the color schemes dominated by red, orange, yellow and white.  B.C.  When we come to the 18th century, wall frescoes gain weight, but we see that the Cretan palaces where these frescoes cover the walls are still burned for unknown reasons.  B.C.  In the 17th century, Cretan palaces were rebuilt.  The excavations reveal that the palaces passed through two different periods.  The event that separates these two periods from each other is BC.  It is highly probable that there was an earthquake that occurred around 1700.  Findings and finds from the ruins reveal that these palaces were decorated with a rich and striking decoration;  Wall paintings of the palace in Knossos, the capital of the Kingdom of Minos, which gave its name to the Cretan Civilization, are particularly striking.  This period is also because of the tight connections of Cretan civilization with Egypt, the Egyptian influence is seen on the frescoes adorning the walls: there is no shadow and perspective.  Again, the lighter body colors of women than men can be attributed to the Egyptian effect.  On the other hand, we must underline that such technical influences are limited and that the understanding of Cretan painting is completely different from that of Egypt.  The painting of Crete first of all adhered to its prototypes and gave a different task to the human depiction that cannot be measured with Egypt.  On the other hand, the effect of religious themes on Cretan wall paintings is controversial.  We can say that there are god depictions among the paintings.

 The sizes of the figures in the wall fresco technique in Cretan painting vary from normal human height to the size of miniatures on the book pages.  Exceptions are of course available;  For example, the height of the whole figure named "Prince with Lily" whose image I shared is close to two meters.  This figure also shows the Egyptian influences, which I mentioned above in technical terms.  One of the most striking features of Cretan painting is that the audience groups watching the shows in some of the wall paintings are chosen as themes.  Sometimes a large crowd watches dances and bull plays on amphitheater-shaped benches.

 Some of the Cretan artists have shown extraordinary success in showing all the details, as well as showing all the details: The female figure, whose image I shared and called "Parisienne" because of its resemblance to the women of the artist Toulouse Lautrec, is one of the best examples of this.  The description is a unique example of the creativity of Minoan artists, with its beauty, upturned nose, big eyes and curls.  When we examine the work created with an impressionist approach, we understand why the Cretan art preferred painting to sculpture that freezes the figure.  Movement sensitivity and expressiveness are decisive in Cretan painting.  The fact that Cretan masters depicted a monkey figure in blue by going beyond reality is a good example for our understanding of the way they look at the world, as well as their desire to express the environment in an attractive and enthusiastic way.

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