I was really interested in our class today about how we talked about the concept of “linear progression” of art and how this idea can be problematic. I liked how we first started with Vasari, who set up this idea that artists will always do better (truer to life) than the artist previous to them. This idea is problematic because it doesn’t take into account the context from the time. I liked how we returned back to Ancient Greek art with the 3 male sculptures and discussed how through time the representations of these men changed. Though throughout time in Ancient Greek artists became more focused on created naturalistic art and emulating the human body in an accurate and beautiful way, but this doesn’t mean that the archaic sculptures were not sufficient in their own period and that they lacked skill. For example, the archaic sculptures could fulfill the artistic needs of the time and was idealized in more of an abstract way. I thought this discussion was important because I always have to remind myself of this idea of how the degree of naturalism is not related to a sort of “linear progression” instead it could be just the artistic needs of the time period as well as reactive to the time periods surrounding it.