How can art be a mirror of society?

Art was one of the things that were being ‘reborn,’ in the Renaissance, and art itself is a language, but not verbally but visually. If you look at the paintings from the renaissance you can see what they were focused on. Art is a reflection of the society inside the mirror because you can get a lot of information out from it. The focal points will tell you about the characteristics of men in the era, the vanishing point will tell us about the setting, the classical architecture tells us that the Renaissance society based most of their ideas on improved basketball. Art is a reflection of the society improved and as time passed. More tools/intelligence was used to make art better as there were more tools/intelligence for making a piece of art. Art shows that the Renaissance society was very rich which also made the Renaissance art become rich too. If the society is awful, old, bad and sad the art colors would normally be depressing colors used in art but the art from the Renaissance are mostly all bright showing that the Renaissance was a happy, new, fresh, and lively.

An example is shown right away in the painting of “The school of Athens.’ The painting shows that there were 2 strong sides of view in the school of Athens which represented some sort of society. The two societies were Spiritual and Non-Spiritual. This painting reflects that people with the same ideas stayed together from the others who denied the idea. ‘The School of Athens’ also tells us what subjects the society was mainly focused on. And as you can see most of the characters in the painting are focused on either mathematics of science. This means that the society was very curious about the things around them. Art is just a fantastic piece of history to tell historians about what was going on in the Renaissance.

‘School of Athens’ contains many different types of characters but if I were part of the painting I think I would be Apollo. Apollo was the god of prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery, poetry, dance, music and intellectual inquiry and also the god of light. He was also the son of Zeus and twin brother of Artemis. In the painting Apollo was painted on Plato’s side which is the side that believed in the spiritual world. The reason why I think I would be Apollo is because Apollo has a wide range of abilities and I believe I have the wide range of abilities just like Apollo. I do everything from academics, sports, and everything else that is available. Apollo loved to teach people how to play the lyre and to entertain them with it. If I loved to do something, I would entertain it with great enthusiasm for people and teach it to them if I had the chance. Also, Apollo was the god of medicine and light. This could be interpreted into reality and change god of medicine and light to having the power to make people happy from sadness, and to always be happy, lively, and positive. I always make people smile, laugh and happy when they’re in their bad mood but I always stay happy, lively, and positive myself. I believe I have the power to make people happy even though they were having a bad day. Also Apollo had a fairly good relationship with many people. I, also have good friendship with friends, just like Apollo. One thing I would like to be more of Apollo is how he used time carefully for everything, and I learnt from him that we should always believe in ourselves.