Sunday, 13 April 2014

Tree Of Life Art History Project

Tree Of Life Art History Project

(Some of the below is my opinion because it cannot be found)


Do you know what is the tree of life? Tree of life is a big part of most human cultures, but what does it mean? It alludes the connections of every life in the world, or on the planet. It is a metaphor for descents of different cultures in evolutionary sense.


What is the tree of life actually for? What is its most important function? I think the most important function of the Tree of Life is to tell people how the world works. It is to tell people how the things are connected and related, and how everything is a part of the world. It is a philosophy of people in the past. I think it is really important in the past- people use it, follow it, learn it, agree with it, believe it. They have a better idea of the world with the tree of life.


The tree of life is important in the past. However, I think it is no longer important or useful in modern life, especially in more advanced places. I think so because now that we have science, now we know better than before about how the world works. And how we understand it is somehow different from the concepts of the trees of lives. The tree of life in some ways is a mythology for modern people. Science was against sayings like the tree of life. And Science seem to be taking over- Like you won’t think that there is really a Yggdrasil that connect the nine worlds together.


There are some tree of life that are really detailed and full of symbols. Why? This is because some cultures has a lot of ideas about how things work. They want to say so many things that they have to draw many things to represent them, in order to express all their ideas. That eventually bring the tree of life a lot of details and symbols. Some are really beautiful and decorated because the culture value their tree of life. Others are simple because they have one main based concept. This is why there are some tree of life that are very detailed while some are simpler.


Why is it the tree of life? Why would it be “tree” of life? Why would it be tree of “life”? Also, how are they created? Life is complicated, in the past, people might not understand about life. Therefore, they start to think about what is life, they want to use something to represent life- about how life works, how life is related, what is life… They chose trees. Why? Different cultures choose different things actually. There is a representation of life I like which is a tree. How and why was it created? It is created because people want to have a better understanding of life, they want to express ideas of life. How is it created? Frankly, there is no specific ways. Different cultures created the tree of life with different ways. I will tell you about the tree of life I like and how it is created.


I like the Celtic tree of life because it is simple and it is really meaningful to me. It is designed by a Welsh artist, Jen Delyth, in the 1990s decade. This is one of the celtic tree of life drawings:
What does it actually mean or represents? How is it created? Why is their crosses and knots all around the tree? The tree of life is found in many culture including the celts. The crosses of Celtic origin incorporate tree symbols in their designs. The celtic tree of life represents the concept of nature’s forces that converge to create harmony and balance: It can be thought as how individual trees go together to form a whole forest. The trees are so tall and expansive they spread widely. They link together, forming knots and crosses, combining their forces of nature. Their existence provide home for thousands and thousands of species. The knots and crosses are also how everything in the nature connects and relate to each other. And they also represents cycles of stuffs. These are how the concepts of the celtic tree of life built, and how its design people thought of came out. These are also why the celtic tree of life is so important to celts. How does it connects to human? It is very simple, this tree of life shows us how nature gives us homes and how they nature is important to us. The celtic tree of life also represents how nature and human are related. I like and agree with the celtic tree of life and it’s concept. Why would I agree with it? It is because I like the nature very much and how it works by itself by its cycle. I like how nature is so pure and how they provide us resources and homes. I like how they form their big forest and let so many species live in it. I like how they fight through extreme and worst conditions. Therefore, I think trees in the nature is really important like how the value it. I like the design and the drawing of the celtic tree of life too. Why? I like how the lines connects and intersects. I like how the tree is so neat and its pureness in its design. I like it that it doesn’t have all messy symbols all over it, but it has one main design that shows everything.


By now, I hope you have a better understanding in the tree of life. Which tree of life do you like most? Why?



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