Cultural Review Art of the First Cities:

Cultural Review

Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

The Art of the First Cities exhibition is the new exhibition that aims to pull together and explore the emergence of the world's first city-states as well as empires during the third millennium B.C. In Syria and Mesopotamia by means of art. Being held at Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall. The presentations at the exhibition have been further enhanced and made a possible success by means of connecting all these evolutions through artistic and cultural link that stretches from the eastern Aegean to the Indus valley and then to Central Asia.

This exhibition for the first time has brought together the works of art in the form of illustration and splendor of the most well-known and prominent locations of the ancient world. This includes the unique finds of the palace and temples of Mari, the citadel of Troy, the Royal Graves of Ur and the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization. Furthermore, the exhibition also comprises of nearly 400 works of remarkable jewelry, sculpture, relief carving, seals, metalwork, and cuneiform tablets, making the exhibition more interesting to visit.

The exhibition opened on 8th May 8, 2003 and would continue till 17th August. The focus of this breakthrough exhibition on view is the extraordinary and outstanding flowering of the world's earliest civilizations of approximately 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia to present day Iraq.

Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus is brought to public eye by the culmination of years of planning and research. The reviews and presentations by the great artists of the development of art and culture in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates along with the survey and analysis of their in depth impact on the rising cities of the ancient world from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia and along the Gulf to the Indus Valley made during the period of one of the most influential and creative era in history has been beautifully and artistically portrayed.

Thus, the aim behind the exhibition is to educate about something that is really genuinely cultural and artistically interesting while the exhibition is good overall. Some fifty museums from more than twelve countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East have participated in this striving exhibition, contributing to national treasures that have been hardly ever been displayed and exhibited outside the boundaries of the art institutions.

Goodness

Goodness provides a ground for the public to learn about this important art movement, which influences not only visual art, but also happenings and literature. This exhibition features new paintings made by Wong Shun Kit. In the era where digitalization exists, Wong tried to revert to simple painting, ranging from composite means of creation, to installation and diverse media and to simple brushes and sketches.

The exhibition although is not much focused and tuned according to the recent style, yet it touches human nature, and capture feelings and expose emotions. For example, one of the paintings is "diary" that in a more direct and free manner reflects the lives and captures one's thoughts and present sketches of emotions and feelings. Thus, Wong as adapted the concepts of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy depicted all his thoughts and emotions in the form of art works.