Dolphins have most definitely been
presented in art today and throughout history. This post will cover a couple of
those today.
One of the many forms of ancient art
that included dolphins is frescoes. Frescoes are a source of some of the most beautiful
ancient art handed down to us from the Minoan civilization of Bronze Age Crete
(2000-1500 BC). Without written records, they are often the only source, along
with decorated pottery, of just how Minoans saw the world and give us glimpses of
their beliefs, cultural practices and tastes. Fresco painting is the painting
of color pigments on wet lime plaster without a binding agent and the paint is then
absorbed by the plaster and protected from fading.
A few problems with frescoes are the delicateness
of the pieces, incompleteness of the art and the lack of an artist to tie them
to. They also tend to be extremely difficult to date. There are also many
surviving fresco remains dating from the second phase of 1550 to 1450 BC, when
the Mycenaean began to take over the Minoan sites. However, as these are
stylistically very similar to earlier Minoan frescoes, they are discussed as
one in today’s society.
Natural subjects such as flowers and
other plants were typically the subjects in these paintings. The Minoans were
one of the earliest cultures to paint natural landscapes without any humans
present in the scene due to their love of nature. Animals were also commonly
portrayed in their natural habitat, including dolphins and other sea creatures.
As far as today’s modern culture,
dolphins are portrayed in art in hundreds of different forms such as statues,
jewels, posters, films, photography, carvings, sculptures, moldings and
paintings to name a few. In Scotland you can find this really neat metal wire
sculpture of a dolphin along the boardwalk in Aberdeen City and Shire.
This sculpture was placed here to bring
in tourists and spark an interest in their desire to see the modern arts and
culture of Aberdeen and Scotland in general. In fact, this picture was taken
directly from the “Visit Scotland” website!
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