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
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.
RED Clay emerges from under the BLACK Paint
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NIOBID KRATER.docx Size : 1788.764 Kb Type : docx |
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APAH – GREEK VASE PROJECT.pptx Size : 8081.046 Kb Type : pptx |
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Ancient Greek Art-Late Classical & Hellenistic.docx Size : 13.267 Kb Type : docx |
THE VIDEOS BELOW
&
THIS LINK
Plaque of the Ergastines=
https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/plaque-ergastines
AND
http://ancient-greece.org/architecture/parthenon.html
(if you have difficulty with the url address- please type in
Parthenon-Ancient-Greece.org)
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Greek Art Lecture- Greek Temples and the Acropolis.docx Size : 123.014 Kb Type : docx |
https://schoolworkhelper.net/archaic-sculptures-history-kroisos-kouros-kore-ka/
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Compare & Contrast Archaic Greek Sculpture.docx Size : 24.367 Kb Type : docx |
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Themes - Ancient Mediterranean & Pacific.xlsx Size : 16.261 Kb Type : xlsx |
If You are Absent - Please view the Great Altar of Zeus & Athena and the Art lecture Below
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Plaque of the Ergastines Analytical Handout.docx Size : 135.928 Kb Type : docx |
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AUGUSTUS OF PRIMAPORTA ID. ACTIVITY.docx Size : 126.513 Kb Type : docx |
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Acropolis Analysis Map.docx Size : 10778.622 Kb Type : docx |
Humanism, Classicism, Kouros, Contrapposto, Encaustic, Doryphoros, Peplos Lamentation , ,Acropolis Cella, , Caryatid, Parthenon, Shaft, Pediment, Entablature, Cornice, Frieze, Ionic, Doric,Corinthian, Panathenaic, Agora, Isocephalism
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APAH-Greek Sculpture Video Notes.docx Size : 13.248 Kb Type : docx |