Timeline
What are the stylistic characteristics of each of these Greek periods? Explain the changes or innovations found in the visual arts during these periods of Greek history.
• Geometric Period: 900-700 B.C.
- Depictions of humans returned to Greek art, and statuettes and vases were prime examples that demonstrated this.
• Orientalizing Period: 700-600 B.C.
- Greece had more contact with other civilizations, specifically those of Egypt and the Mesopotamia region, and thus eastern creatures such as the sphinx started showing up in art.
• Archaic Period: 600-480 B.C.
- Known for lifelike statues that depicted young men, often the participants of the Olympics, completely nude. Stone temples with peripteral colonnades and conformity either …show more content…
My inference of the quote is that everything should be considered in relation to the human experience, as it us that decides what is right and wrong, not the gods.
• Intellect, sound mind and body – Terms directly relating to philosophy of the Greeks, and the importance of the mind over material things. Humans are minds of intellect, are bodies are our physical representation in the world.
• Idealism – Philosophically speaking, it is the systems of thought that essentially says that the physical world and all knowledge is the result of the human mind. Idealism affected art such as paintings and sculptures from the late classical period onward.
• Democracy – A government that is ruled by the people, as opposed to an oligarchy or dictatorship in which a few people or one person rules. The Greeks are especially known for a direct democracy, in which every citizen (white adult males) would discuss policies and vote, with the majority ruling deciding what to do. Democracy arose in Greece during the Archaic Art period.
Ideas and Style
Art & Architecture …show more content…
The first place this is seen is in the Kritios Boy statue 480 BCE from the classical period.
• Polykleitos' Ratio and Proportion – Creating a statue that has many defined parts, and these parts are proportioned and balanced with eachother through a mathematical system, thus creating the perfect statue. His statue Doryphoros from 450 -440 BCE demonstrates this.
• Doric and Ionic orders – Orders that dealt with the Architecture of Greece. Doric order is the oldest of the orders, and also is much simpler than the Ionic order. The Doric order started showing up during the Geometric and Orientalizing Art period in mainland Greece, and is best seen in the Parthenon in Athens. The Ionic order is slightly more complex and came about a hundred years after the Doric order, beginning in the Ionian islands. The Temple to Athena Nike showcases Ionic order pillars.
• Entasis – The curve to columns that corrects the illusion of concavity in Doric order columns, thus making it seem straight to the human eye. This came about in the classical period, and was used significantly less during the Hellenistic
What are the stylistic characteristics of each of these Greek periods? Explain the changes or innovations found in the visual arts during these periods of Greek history.
• Geometric Period: 900-700 B.C.
- Depictions of humans returned to Greek art, and statuettes and vases were prime examples that demonstrated this.
• Orientalizing Period: 700-600 B.C.
- Greece had more contact with other civilizations, specifically those of Egypt and the Mesopotamia region, and thus eastern creatures such as the sphinx started showing up in art.
• Archaic Period: 600-480 B.C.
- Known for lifelike statues that depicted young men, often the participants of the Olympics, completely nude. Stone temples with peripteral colonnades and conformity either …show more content…
My inference of the quote is that everything should be considered in relation to the human experience, as it us that decides what is right and wrong, not the gods.
• Intellect, sound mind and body – Terms directly relating to philosophy of the Greeks, and the importance of the mind over material things. Humans are minds of intellect, are bodies are our physical representation in the world.
• Idealism – Philosophically speaking, it is the systems of thought that essentially says that the physical world and all knowledge is the result of the human mind. Idealism affected art such as paintings and sculptures from the late classical period onward.
• Democracy – A government that is ruled by the people, as opposed to an oligarchy or dictatorship in which a few people or one person rules. The Greeks are especially known for a direct democracy, in which every citizen (white adult males) would discuss policies and vote, with the majority ruling deciding what to do. Democracy arose in Greece during the Archaic Art period.
Ideas and Style
Art & Architecture …show more content…
The first place this is seen is in the Kritios Boy statue 480 BCE from the classical period.
• Polykleitos' Ratio and Proportion – Creating a statue that has many defined parts, and these parts are proportioned and balanced with eachother through a mathematical system, thus creating the perfect statue. His statue Doryphoros from 450 -440 BCE demonstrates this.
• Doric and Ionic orders – Orders that dealt with the Architecture of Greece. Doric order is the oldest of the orders, and also is much simpler than the Ionic order. The Doric order started showing up during the Geometric and Orientalizing Art period in mainland Greece, and is best seen in the Parthenon in Athens. The Ionic order is slightly more complex and came about a hundred years after the Doric order, beginning in the Ionian islands. The Temple to Athena Nike showcases Ionic order pillars.
• Entasis – The curve to columns that corrects the illusion of concavity in Doric order columns, thus making it seem straight to the human eye. This came about in the classical period, and was used significantly less during the Hellenistic