He invented the camera obscura, the precursor to the pinhole camera, to demonstrate how light can be used to project an image onto a flat surface. Earlier references to the camera obscura have been found in Chinese texts dating to about 400 B.C. and in the writings of Aristotle around 330 B.C.
It passed knowledge and values from generation to generation. Most of the stories were fables that expressed the morals they people had at the time.
Pop Art uses iconic people or cultural symbols which can be identified as exactly what they are. Abstract Expressionism is not identifiable as a specific things or object, because it is supposed to communicate feelings. Pop Art usually sends a specific message, whereas Abstract Expressionism is art that is up to interpretation.
The study of Japanese art has frequently been complicated by the definitions and expectations established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Japan was opened to the West. The occasion of dramatically increased interaction with other cultures<span> seemed to require a convenient summary of Japanese </span>aesthetic<span> principles, and Japanese art historians and archaeologists began to construct </span>methodologies<span> to categorize and assess a vast body of material ranging from Neolithic pottery to wood-block prints. Formulated in part from contemporary scholarly </span>assessments<span> and in part from the syntheses of enthusiastic generalists, these theories on the characteristics of Japanese </span>culture<span> and, more</span>
