ID2241 - Greek Art #1

General

The move towards "Realism"
Geometriciyzing Period of Greek Art
Archaic Greek Art
Classical Greek Art (introduction)

Geometric amphora from Dipylon Cementery, 750 BC (Geometriciyzing)

Physical Attributes:

• Athens

• 5 ft tall

• used as a grave marker

• hollow base

• partially buried or staked to the grave itself

• Amphora

  • two handled vessel

  • amphomorphiszed whatever

• Geometricizing

  • had lots of shapes painted on

    • squares, parallel lines, meander pattern

• Register - narrative scene

  • funerary rights

• composite view

• Schema

  • triangle

  • Minoan I guess bro

Mantiklos Apollo, 700-680 BC: (Geometriciyzing)

Physical Attributes:

• lost wax bronze casting process

• 8 inch tall

• Geometricizing

• text included

  • identifies who it is

  • ritual

  • Apollo

  • offering

• Schema

  • traingle (body and head)

  • cylinders

  • Minoan Schema

• Influence from Toreador Fresco Minoans

(Lady of Auxerre, 650 BC, Geometricizing period):

• carved in limestone

• geometricizing period

• found in a museum in Auxerre, France

• Schema

  • Cylinders

• Polychromed

Kouros, Metropolitan Museum, 600 BC: (Archaic Greek art:)

6 feet 4

• carved in marble

• Kouros: Athlete (Olympic Games) (singular)

• Kouroi: Plural

• Schema

  • traingle

  • cylinders for legs (almost like that's how legs are but okay)

• Open form

  • split leg walking pose

• Realistic anatomy

Kroisos from Anavysos, 530 BC: (Archaic Greek art:)

Found in Athens

• Used as a grave marker

• identifies for who it's for

• 6ft 4 inch

• funerary ritual

• text on the base

  • "Stop and show puty besides the marker of Kriosos, dead..."

• Schema

  • Triangle

• Anatomical details

• "split leg walking pose"

• PolyChromed

  • color added

• "Archaic face"

  • "blank" look, parallel lips, buldging eyes, no emotion

Peplos Kore, 530 BC: (Archaic Greek art:)

• Archaic Greek face

• Anatomy details

• 46 inch

• marble

• found in Acropolis in Athens, 1886

• Kore: maiden(singular)

• Korai: maidens(plural)

• Peplos

  • a dress, worn by greek females

• Polychromed

• possibly a headdress

Temple of Artemis, Corfu, 600-580 BC, “Medusa pediment”: (Archaic Greek Art):

• Artemis

  • hunting

  • moon

  • bow and arrow

• Hosting a cult statue

• dedicated to specific gods

• ritualized action held for offerings

• Greek Temple form

  • initially were made of wood then stone replaced the wood gradually

  • post/lintel construction

  • vertical/horizontal

non-circled  besides the base (decorative sculpure)

• Traingle top

  • "Medusa Pediment"

  • 9 ft at center

    • Composite form

    • female w/ snakes for hair

    • wards off evil spirits

• Naos (cell)

  • cult statue of Artemis held

• Pronaos

  • "before" inner chamber

• Colonnade: line/row of columns

• Stylobate: ascending stepped foundation (stairs bru)

• hierarchical

• exterior altar: where the offerings were presented cuz scum can't enter inside

• the first Doric Order Greek temple constructed in stone

  • no metope I guess

  • cushion capital

• Greek temple: form

  • Orders (Columns)

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  • Doric:

    • Minoan Column influence

    • Capital: Doric order ("Cushian Capital)

    • metope: square

    • triglyph: three-part

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Greek Classical Art

more realistic

• life-size

• specific reference

• more motion

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, 490-480 BC: “Dying warriors,”: west and east pediments:(Classical)

Aphaia: Greek god

• Doric order

  • Cushion capital

  • triglyph

  • metope

• The pediments are representing different battles of the trojan War.

• life sized, carved in marble

• PolyChromed

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• West Pediment:

  • "Fallen warrior"

  • "Archaic face"

  • left-to-right motion
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• East Pediment:

  • "fallen warrior"

  • about 10 years later

  • specific "older man"

  • falling forward

  • "through space"

  • 3D

  • 2 Belly Buttons... (BRU WHO FREAKING CARESAIOUWHSIULDNBIUdfgbhdsy)
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Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Roman copy), 450-440 BC: (classical)

• Polykleitos is the artist

• "Spear Carrier" (would've carried a Bronze)

  • lost wax process of bronze casting

• Roman copy cuz they melted the original into a cannon ball (bru)

  • they couldn't mirror the free standing (lol)

• free standing

• Contrapposto

  • "counter-pose"; weight-shift that makes movement possible

  • one part forward one part backward (like the shoulders) [balance]

  • one weight-bearing one relaxed

• Chiastic balance:

  • balanced by crossing axis

• Canon of Proporitons:

  • "rules" of proportional relationships

  • used his handspan as the unit of measurement

    • handspan = height of head

• influence by Pythagoras

  • binaries (chiastic balance)

  • cannon of proportions

• Aparentally it's post and lintel

  • at this point whatever

Warriors from Riace, 460-450 BC: (Classical)

• 6ft tall

• life size

• spear fisherman found it

• work done to restore it

• original bronze sculpture (lost wax process of bronze casting)

• free-stadning

• contrapposto

• chiastic balance

• cannon of proportions

• "carrying" a spear

• Anatomical details

• silver eyelashes

• bronze, copper alloies, plus silver

Poseidon from Cape Artemision, 460-450 BC: (classical)

• Poseidon: god of the seas: trident

• or it could be zeus

• Free standing (no support it's on it's own feet)

• heel of the ground

• open form

• Bronze

Myron, Discobolos, 450 BC:(classical)

• Bronze

• Discus thrower

• Free standing

• Chiastic balance

• curves

• there's also a roman marble copy (romans needed support lol)