Why is it said that Greek art laid the foundation of Western classical art?

The fact that the remaining works of art of ancient Greece gradually became the model of classical art is due to the fact that the gods (human beings) portrayed by them had precise proportions, scientific anatomy, and near-perfect modeling, which could not be surpassed by later generations.

Becoming the benchmark of classical art, later generations, including Renaissance art, took Ancient Greece as the standard. Therefore, it is said that Greek art laid the foundation of Western classical art.

The Greeks not only discovered, nurtured and created beauty in the environment of democracy, freedom and fierce competition, but also created the gods, and in the minds of the Greeks, the most beautiful people are the gods, so the Greeks respected people and raised them to the height of the gods to be affirmed that the gods and the people are the same form and the same sex, and the Greeks regarded the strong body as the original source of all the goodness and beauty, and Greek myths as the spiritual source of art.

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The true meaning of European art should start from ancient Greece. The geographical scope of Greek art was centered on the Aegean Sea, and was therefore considered a continuation of Aegean art. Shelley once intoned in his poem, "We are all Greeks."

Greece is the birthplace and cradle of European civilization. Without Greece, it is impossible to imagine what European civilization would be like, and the tradition of Greek civilization survives everywhere in the Western world today. However, in addition to the citizens living on the Greek Peninsula think of themselves as Greeks, few people like Shelley to philosophical imagination that they are Greeks.