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Greek Art

Greek Art. Chapter 5. Geometric Period. Very typical of this period were large funerary vases designed to hold votive offerings Decoration was primarily abstract forms, flat patterns, outlined shapes that represent various human forms in poses of anguish. Repetition used.

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Greek Art

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  1. Greek Art Chapter 5

  2. Geometric Period • Very typical of this period were large funerary vases designed to hold votive offerings • Decoration was primarily abstract forms, flat patterns, outlined shapes that represent various human forms in poses of anguish. • Repetition used.

  3. Geometric & Orientalizing • After destruction of Mycenaean palaces, the bronze age disintegrated, loss of kings as powerful rulers. Also lost many art forms (how to construct tombs, citadels, frescoes, sculpt with stone) also lost writing and reading. • This was deemed the “Dark Age of Greece” • Depopulation • Poverty • Loss of contact with outside world

  4. Geometric Krater, 740bce

  5. Hero & Centaur, 750-730bce

  6. Orientalizing • More and more attention being paid to the human form/body • This period was influenced by Eastern works being brought in for trade, as trade was on the rise. Borrowed motifs from Egypt and Near East

  7. Mantiklos Apollo, 700-680bce

  8. Corinthian Black Figure Amphora with Animal Frieze 625-600bce

  9. Lady of Auxerre, 650-625bce

  10. The 3 styles of Greek Sculpture • Archaic: stiff body pose, feet together, and arms close to the body. • Classical: more lifelike body, more natural form with movement, calmness, appearance of the contrapposto pose • Hellenistic: evokes emotion, more lifelike detail, greater movement

  11. Archaic Period • More sense of permanency, temples built of stone, not mud brick • The two orders were used (see handout) • Archaic statuary was usually life-size or larger, and painted. Most share an expression “archaic smile”. Possibly used to signify that the subject was still living. • Kore/Korai = female youth • Kouros/Kouroi = male youth

  12. Kouros, 600bce

  13. Moschophorus (Calf Bearer), 560bce

  14. Kroisos, 530bce

  15. Kore, from Peplos, 530bce

  16. Kore, from the Acropolis, 520-510bce

  17. Doric Ionic

  18. Doric & Ionic

  19. Typical Greek Temple Plan

  20. Temple of Hera I, 550bce

  21. West pediment, Temple of Artemis, 600-580bce

  22. Siphnian Treasury, Reconstruction Drawing

  23. Siphnian Treasury Frieze from North, 530bce

  24. Vase Painting • Athens was the main location for the production of vases during the archaic period. • Black Figure technique used as well as red-figure technique

  25. Kleitias & Ergotimos, Francios Vase, 570bce

  26. Exekias, Ajax & Achilles Playing a Game, 530 bce

  27. Andokides Painter, Ajax & Achilles Playing a Game 525-520bce

  28. Temple of Aphaia at Aegina, 500BC

  29. Dying Warrior, top (490 bce)west pediment of Temple Aphaiabottom (480 bce) east pediment of Temple Aphaia

  30. Early Classical Period • Early 5th century, Greek city states united to fight the Persian Army, but defeat of Persians came after Athens was already destroyed

  31. Architecture/Architectural Structure • Pieces from this period represent a time of transition. • Temples more compact, columns more spaced out • Pediment Statuary is more life-size and displays a variety of movement and action

  32. Temple of Hera II, (closely resemble Temple of Zeus 470 BC) 460 BC

  33. Seer, from Temple of Zeus pediment 470 BC

  34. Athena, Herakles, Atlas with Apples from metope Temple of Zeus, 470-465bce

  35. Sculpture • New concern to render the human form in natural poses that illustrate how a human usually stands.

  36. Kritios Boy, 480bce

  37. Young Warrior from Riace, 460-450bce

  38. Charioteer, 470bce

  39. Zeua (or Poseidon?), 460-450bce

  40. Myron, Diskobolos, 450bce

  41. Polykleitos, Doryphorus, 450bce

  42. Kresilas, Pericles, 429bce

  43. Athens Acropolis Plan

  44. Acropolis, restored view

  45. Parthenon, 447-438bce

  46. Phidias, Athena Parthenos (model)438bce

  47. Lapith Fighting Centaur, 447-438bce

  48. Three Goddesses, east pediment of Parthenon), 438 bce

  49. Horsemen, detail from procession, Parthenon, 447 bce

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