No, since they produced representative art (not abstract art as far as we can tell) they tried to make water watery and the sky sky-y.
Yes, since language reflects which paints we pick up, and you can see this from greek sculpture (the victorians didn't manage to get all the color off all the sculpture): their color choices were more garish than we would use today. In fact their color choices are closer to those of hound sculpture. And note that the bronze-age aryan invaders to India and Persia also invaded Greece at the same time...
In other words, "yes, but not as much as you might think"
>their color choices were more garish than we would use today.
Maybe that was just an artistic choice.
The reason I am pushing on this is that there is a widespread idea, especially in academia, that people in different cultures see the world completely differently than we modern Westerners do. But that is simply not true. On most basic things, like the fact that human beings live in space, have to eat, and so on, different cultures agree.
Do you read Classical Greek? Have you read Gladstone's book? In my case the answer to both is yes. And, with a Hindu Indian parent and much time spent there through my life I am quite aware of the ancient cultural ties between those two cultures.
There is plenty of work in cultural anthropology, biology, and casting that people are incredibly alike in most ways even in regards to things that appear to be learned, and yet also have elements that are strongly dissimilar despite seemingly being innate. What about people with innate absolute orientation and no concept of right/left. That's not a "historical" phenomenon but a contemporary one.
Sometimes things can be scientific and not ideological you know.
Yes, since language reflects which paints we pick up, and you can see this from greek sculpture (the victorians didn't manage to get all the color off all the sculpture): their color choices were more garish than we would use today. In fact their color choices are closer to those of hound sculpture. And note that the bronze-age aryan invaders to India and Persia also invaded Greece at the same time...
In other words, "yes, but not as much as you might think"