AP Art History

ANCIENT GREEK ART

"MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS"

Mathematics , Proportion, Balance & Humanism

Greek art addresses the search for ideal mathematical proportions in the figure and in architecture.

It is in the Greeks that we see the most drastic change in how humans perceive the human figure

Art Reflected the Cultural Ideas of=

Humanism, Rationalism & Democracy

BIG IDEAS:

1. Isolation of Greek city states along coast line and island = self-reliance, emphasis on the individual

2. Greeks believe that their gods are idealized humans including passions and ambitions

3. Greeks attempted to define what it is to be a human being and to understand the individual’s relationship with the world around them

4. Plato believed that the world of visible forms was just a reflection of perfect truth, beauty, and goodness, which exists only  in a world of ideas. (Plato)

5. Rationalism: Belief that the intellect is the highest human faculty, that the universe was founded on rational (harmonic) principles, and that through knowledge one could decode the logic of the universe (Pythagoras). This filtered directly into art making and architecture.

6) The importance of the "Kallos' and 'Eu" in Polyclitus idea of symmetria and his belief that numbers /math defines physical and abstract reality.

HOMEWORK 

October  18th

Study the Greek Temple Facade Elements & The (3) Greek Capital Styles

Homework 

10/14/2022

NIOBID KRATER=

RED FIGURE POTTERY

RED Clay emerges from under the BLACK Paint

Used to Mix Water & Wine