Art and Mythology Mythology and art can be thought of as one. With out art we wouldn't know any mythology, or at least it would be very limited. With out mythology art would have been plain and boring. In fact many of the work of art's that you see at the museum in one way or another are connected to mythology. In the ancient times when people were illiterate, mythological stories were passed down the …
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…about them. In conclusion, we can all tell by the descriptions above that these masks are all one-hundred percent mythological. The masks are beautiful works of art. I believe that mythology was greatly exemplified through art, especially since most of humanity was illiterate during the age when these myth's started. What better way to pass a legend down the generations then with a work of art, after all a picture is worth a thousand words.