Art Second Test

Front 1

Minoan Architecure

Back 1

-Focus on palace complex
-hundreds of rooms
-many murals
-Minoan columns used, wood, red, tapered downwards.
-indoor plumbing and flush toilets
-Megaron: meeting room

Front 2

Minoan Painting

Back 2

-Much Fresco
-Often free and loose, lively
-Curvaceous
-people are slender and long haired
-much bull and snake imagery
-much agriculture and the sea
-many murals

Front 3

Mycenaean Architecture

Back 3

-Focus on fortifications
-Thick Walls
-Cyclopean blocks
-Megaron:meeting room
-Pit tombs; later, tholos(cone shaped tomb)
-Corbel arch

Front 4

Geometric Greek Period Art

Back 4

-named after painting style on pottery
-Repetitive geometric designs, e.g. meander
-Abstract bodies; triangle=torso, circle=eye, oval=leg
-growing realism

Front 5

Orientalizing Period Art

Back 5

-Influenced by Near East (orient)
-Animal and mythical creature designs
-Growing Realism and interest in anatomy
-Black figure pottery painting developed

Front 6

Black-Figure Technique Pottery

Back 6

-Both potter and painter may sign the pot
-Paint on the unbaked pot with a slip***(fine filtered clay in water)
-Fire pot: pot and slip turn red
-Cut off air: pot and slip turn black...slip vitrifies(turns glasslike)
-Reinstate Air; pot turns red, slip remains black
-For red-figure technique..paint around the desired subject

Front 7

Greek Archaic Sculpture

Back 7

-Nude Male(kouros) and Clothed female (Kore)
-Stiff and rigid
-one foot forward(male) one arm across chest(female)
-Youthful and slender
-Archaic smile after 575 bce
-Flat faces get rounder
-webbing decreases
-increasing realism

Front 8

Classical Greek Sculpture

Back 8

-Nude male, clothed female
-short hair
-no expression
-normally young
-Absolutely realistic and 3-d
-Tension and relaxation
-S-Curve to body
-head turned and/or tilted
-Looks posed, but implies motion
-search for ideal proportions leads to slight distortions

Front 9

Greek Architecture

Back 9

-Emphasis on temple
-temple built on an order(overall style) Doric or Ionic
-much use of columns, which are normally fluted and built from sections: prostyle(in front) Amphiprostyle(front and back), peristyle is all around.
Archaic: number of cols. in front=X, then cols. in side=2X
Classical: number of cols in front=X, cols. in side=2x + 1
Columns support Entablature(lintel), which supports a Pediment
-temples low to the ground, normally 3 steps
Tholos: circular, domed temple
Theater: semi-circle, outdoors, excavated out of a hill, excellent slight lines and acoustics.

Front 10

Greek Hellenistic Sculpture

Back 10

Male and female nudes
-variety of ages
-emotion
-turbulent, twisting
-moment in time effect
-often playful or erotic

Front 11

Greek Hellenistic Architecture

Back 11

-Less Emphasis on canon
-introduction of Corinthian temple
-often huge
-may have stairs
-turbulent reliefs

Front 12

Etruscan Sculpture

Back 12

-often terracotta; much bronze
-lively; sense of movement
-fierce animals
-men and women together
-gestures
-feasting, partying scenes
-Archaic smile in earlier examples

Front 13

Etruscan Architecture

Back 13

-Normally wood, some brick or tufa
-Temple: on a podium, steps, 3 cellas, columns only in front
-Tuscan column: wood, unfluted, doric capital, base
-Tombs in large necropolis
-Cerveteri: underground tombs resemble houses
-Tarquinia: underground tombs have elaborate murals

Front 14

Roman Architecture

Back 14

-enclosed space
-often huge
-exploit the arch: arcade, barrel vault, dome
-exploit concrete
-steps
-engaged domes
-Doric and Ionic columbs, Also Corinthian, composite, and tuscan
-Amphitheater: oval, outdoor theater for public entertainment
-Basilica: rectangular, rounded end, administrative
-Bath, stadium, Aqueduct

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Roman Portraits

Back 15

Republic-Absolutely realistic portrait
Emperor-often idealized
Emperor may be realistic to be seen as approachable(or intimidating)
-Couples and families portrayed; literacy is highlighted

Front 16

Painting in Pompeii

Back 16

-many murals
-much still life and landscape
-use of perspective(visual, linear, atmospheric)
1st style: Imitate costly stone panels
2nd: Illusion of 3-d world without walls
3rd: geometric forms, often dark background
4th: Crowded, decorated picture gallery effect