Ancient greek a rt part 1

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Entered through memorial gate , Parsanoss

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Baule Spirit Spouse, late 20th century

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Flashcard-Geometric Krater from Diplyon Cemetery

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Story telling in art is back!!

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Alberto Giacometti, City Square, Bronze, 1948

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Flashcard image-Corinthian Olpe

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Flashcard image-black figure vase

Artist: Exekias

Title: The Suicide of Ajax

Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration, 27" high (69 cm)

Date: c. 540 BCE Archaic Period

Source/Museum: Château-Musée, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

•Stunning composition with shape of figure echoing form of vase, balanced between uprights of shield & tree.

•Shows drama of moment when Ajax will throw himself on his sword.

•Black figure ceramic.

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Be familiar with amphora, olpe, krater

Don’t have to memorize the rest.

Artist: Amasis Painter

Title: Dionysos with Maenads

Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration

Size: height of amphora 13" (33.3 cm)

Date: c. 540 BCE

Source/Museum: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

EXAMPLE OF BLACK FIGURE PAINTING, POTTER WAS AMASIS

PAINTER IS UNKNOWN BUT DID A LOT OF PIECES

WOMEN OFFERING A GIFT TO THE GODS

Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)

Title: Death of Sarpedon

Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration, 18" high

Date: c. 515 BCE, Archaic Period

Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Euphronius best known red figure artist, illustrating a story from the Iliad, Sleep & Death carry dead Trojan warrior from battlefield

Balanced composition, rhythm of decorative bands echoing the shape of the body and Hermes, guide to the Underworld

Foreshortening … such as Sarpedon’s left leg

Flashcard image

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White figure vase

Classical period

Also has tempera paint applied

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Know/recognize this Order

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Know, recognize this order

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Know, recognize this order

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Recognize/know prostyle temple

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Flashcard image (Temple of Athena Nike)

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Know what a PERISTYLE is!!! Parthenon

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Flashcard Image - Early Classical Period

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Artist: n/a

Title: Anavysos Kouros

Medium: Marble with remnants of paint

Size: height 6'4" (1.93 m)

Date: c. 530 BCE

Source/Museum: Cemetery at Anavysos, near Athens /

Three Purposes of Statuary

1. Dedication to a god(dess)

2. Memorial to a man

3. Represent or embody a god

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Greek Influence on Western Culture

• You are going to do a treasure hunt at home… must bring in an object, picture or thing (no fair just finding something on internet)

• Could be postcard, book, DVD, photograph, poem, etc etc etc even something from a textbook (math, literature, etc.)