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GREEK Art
T, R, 12-1:20PMProfessor Paige Prater
Place
900-600BCE The Geometric and The
Orientalizing 600-480BCE Archaic 480-323BCE Classical
480-450BCE Early Classical 450-400BCE High Classical 400-323BCE Late Classical
323-31/30BCE Hellenistic
Time Periods
City-state (polis)
Athens, Corinth, Sparta, etc. Coinage (from Asia Minor) Alphabetic writing (from the Phoenicians) 7th
C, BCE Representative govt, private property,
freedom of speech, etc. (in Athens) by 6th C, BCE (MALE)
Polytheistic Sanctuaries (vs. Egyptian)
Greek Civilization
Geometric
Dipylon Krater (funerary vase). 750-700BCE
Man and Centaur. 750BCE.
Rectilinear forms on pottery – pots are main source of info for this period…
Orientalizing
Egyptian/Near eastern influence on designs in pottery…
Mantiklos Apollo, 700-675BCE
Originated in Corinth
Black-figure Gloss: clay
slip + metallic color pigments
http://youtu.be/FpLPx_Akl7Y http://youtu.be/WhPW50r07
L8
Orientalizing
Pitcher (olpe). 600BCE, Corinth, 11 ½”
Woman poet, Sappho, on island of Lesbos
http://youtu.be/nNrdMafHtu0 http://youtu.be/5sZMUReQqxs
Aesop’s fables (on another island) http://youtu.be/BBBymzF8hoI
Athens was growing/prospering Artist’s commissions/begin signing their work
Archaic – 600-480BCESo-called “old-fashioned” compared to the classical aesthetic to follow…
Elevation designs:
Doric Ionic
Archaic Architecture
Temple of Artemis (Gorgon Medusa), Corfu 600-580 BCE
Kouros & Kore FiguresStanding Youth (Kouros). Attica. 600BCE
Peplos Kore, Athens, 530 BCE
Classical
High Classical
Late Classical
Hellenistic