Greek Art Midterm 1

Male harp player from Keros, 2600-2300 BCE

-Spiritually Strengthening

-Intellectually Enlarging

-Character Building

-Leading to Lifelong Learning and Service

BYU AIMS

Sema

Sign, Kore/Korous statues

Chryselphantine

Gold and Ivory

Who discovered Knossos?

Sir Aurthur Evans

Tholos

Round structure

Keros-Syros “Sauceboats,” 2800-2300 BCE

Male harp player from Keros, 2600-2300 BCE

Palace of Knossos, 1700-1370 BCE

Octopus vase from Palaikastro, 1500 BC

Bull-Leaping Fresco, 1600-1450 BCE

Boar ’s-tusk Helmet, 1300-1200 BCE

Attic Late Geometric I krater: Funeral Procession, 760-735 BCE

Chigi Vase, 650-640 BCE

Jewelry from Kamiros on the Island of Rhodes, mid-late seventh century BCE

Aniconic dedication to Apollo, mid-6th century BCE

Pediment depicting Medusa mythology, Temple of Artemis, Corfu, c. 590 BCE

Votive Sphinx dedicated by the Naxians atop an Ionic column, 570 BCE

Temple of Artemis, dates after 560 BCE

Four-drachma coin of Syracuse, 485-480 BCE

Exekias, Attic black-figure eye cup, 540 BCE

Kouros from a grave near Phoinikia in Attica, 590 BCE

Votive Kore, 530 BCE

Colossal Kouros dedicated by Iskhys, 560 BCE

Funerary Kore, 540 BCE

Menkaure and Wife, 2490 BCE

Stratigraphy

Study of layers, closer to the surface is younger

Transmutation

The idea that one material becomes another

Animism

Treating art like an animate/living object rather than a crafted one

Dedalic Style

Greek art with a near Eastern look

Phenomenology

How the human experience changes the meaning of an object

Self Reflexivity

Self awareness of the artist within the art

Poikilia

Variety