After reading a lot about ancient Greek art I couldn’t fall asleep and thought more about the different periods within ancient Greek art and for me to understand better I felt like I needed some kind of organised system to document the most important facts about those periods so I came up with the idea to make a table to bring some structure in my new knowledge.
Period | Sculpture | Architecture | Relief |
Geometric (1000 BC – no real knowledge about this period because of the war when most art got destroyed) | - | - | - |
Archaic (7th – 5th century BC) | Attributes: standing male nude: head held high, eyes to front, arms hanging down the sides, hands forming fists, one leg a little in front of the other, athletic figure, showing strength in muscles, hard knee cap, round thighs, facial expressions: witty, knowledge, slight smile, impassive, pert (Example: Kouros c. 570 BC); standing clothed female (Example: Kore c. 510 BC); seated female | “black-figure”: Most of the time they showed silhouettes picked with red lines, eyes always had to be shown frontally even when figure was portrait from profile “red-figure”: Showing more than silhouettes because painting on red with black, making characters visible, more variety (Example: Exekias 540 – 530 BC) | |
Classical (5th – 4th century BC) | Attributes: poses became naturalistic, showing some kind of movement, more “action”, artists started to explore, face seems expressionless, clear-cut outline, typical Greek profile (Example: Charioteer c. 478 – 474 BC) | Parthenon Attributes: “bold in outline, delicate in detail, majestically imposing” (World of Art History, 2009), show off for wealth and power, Doric style for columns (e.g. practical style of stone on stone without particular details in design), optical refinements | Parthenon frieze (447-432 BC) Attributes: showing mainly war scenes |
Hellenistic (4th – 1st century BC) | Attributes: sculptures started looking more real, if cloth was involved it looked very real, artists started changing reproducing the human form into translating the human form as an ideal form to a sculpture, more detailed than before + first female nude of goddess Aphrodite | Theater Epidaurus begun c. 350 BC Attributes: Pure geometric form, simple, regularised earliest type of theatre – but columns became more and more detailed (see different architecture styles page 5) |
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Different architecture orders during Ancient Greek architecture
Doric order:
- Pretty simple
- Stone architecture – blocks resting on each other without mortal
- Following the natural shape of a tree trunk (origin in wooden architecture)
Ionic order:
- Main part as simple as Doric order (origin in wooden architecture)
- Decorated with volutes or ornaments
Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illustrerad_Verldshistoria_band_I_Ill_179.png (Accessed 3 Dec 2011)
Corinthian Order:
- Origin not in wooden architecture
- Came from Ionic order in mid 5th century BC
- Capital is formed like a large krater
- Capital was ornamented with double row of leaves, roses growing out of them
Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illustrerad_Verldshistoria_band_I_Ill_180.png (Accessed 3 Dec 2011)
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Today I was also looking at some images that I could use for my first image to annotate and I visited the Bridgeman Education Library for the first time and thought it was a great source for all kinds of art – I love it! I searched for Greek art and I found a lot of sculptures that I would love to annotate – now I just have to decide which one I like – I am really interested in female sculptures so I am probably going to choose a female sculpture. I am also planning my visit to a classical building. I looked for a neo-classical building online around the place I live and it was very hard to find one – most of them are in Munich or Berlin which is about 6-7 hours drive for me so I looked for something closer to my home and I found one building which is very neo-classical and I am excited to go there and look at all the classical architecture features. There isn’t a lot of information to fin about that place. It’s called “Wandelhalle” and it is located in a city about an hour from here. I don’t think I can go inside but I hope that I will get a lot from it anyway with just looking and analysing it from the outside – there are lots of pictures of the inside to find on the internet. I hope the weather is going to be better soon – so I can go and visit my first building.
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