Whats the differences between Minoan and Mycenaean art.?

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Whats the differences between Minoan and Mycenaean art.?

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Just checked Wikipedia for "Minoan art". Some fascinating history here. Seems to me the Minoans were a bit more civilized than the later Mycenaeans, who were more interested in war.

"Since wood and textiles have vanished, the most important surviving Minoan art is Minoan pottery, the palace architecture with its frescos that include landscapes, stone carvings, and intricately carved seal stones.
In the Early Minoan period ceramics were characterised by linear patterns of spirals, triangles, curved lines, crosses, fishbone motifs and such. In the Middle Minoan period naturalistic designs such as fish, squid, birds and lilies were common. In the Late Minoan period, flowers and animals were still the most characteristic, but the variability had increased. The 'palace style' of the region around Knossos is characterised by a strong geometric simplification of naturalistic shapes and monochromatic paintings. Very noteworthy are the similarities between Late Minoan and Mycenaean art."

"Mycenaean civilization was dominated by a warrior aristocracy. Around 1400 BC, the Mycenaeans extended their control to Crete, center of the Minoan civilization, and adopted a form of the Minoan script called Linear A to write their early form of Greek. The Mycenaean era script is called Linear B.
Mycenaean frescoes have been discovered in palace contexts, notably at Pylos, Mycenae, Orchomenos, Thebes, and Tiryns, and a few non-palatial, perhaps privately-owned contexts. The subjects hold tenaciously to Minoan traditions... and have in some cases been reduced to decorative formulas, embodying themes appropriate to their locations... In a change from the Minoan delight in the life of animals, the Mycenaean relation to nature is reflected in the depiction of animals, which are shown only in relation to man, or as victims of the hunt. Bull-jumping fresco panels appear at Mycenae and at Tiryns."