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