How has art has changed?

Question

In other words compare and contrast from the Giza Pyramids to the Leaning Tower of Pisa to Micheal Angelo to Leonardo Da Vinci to Vincent Van Gough to Frida to Diego Rivera and new ones like Maya Lin, Kiki Smith etc.

Answer 1

Well, I don't know if art, itself, has changed.

Cultures change, and ways of thinking, of describing our relationship to the world; all these change over time.

And tools change. Michaelangelo had iron, brass, stone, wood, and color. He could not have built the sculptures of Maya Lin with his tools, even had he wanted.

I think the artists of the Lasceaux Caves were saying the same things that Kiki Smith is saying, and there is 40,000 years between them.

They each speak artistic truth within a different culture, but they each speak it well.

Answer 2

I think the largest change in art has been the facility with which works of art can be duplicated (digitally or otherwise), which allows for both a much wider and faster disemination and also a larger array of appropriated content (aka andy warhol, et al).

Answer 3

it didnt, they use what is available.