Ancient Greece: The Classical Spirit Part II

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Ancient Greece The Classical SpiritPart II

• Early Greece

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Rise of Ancient GreecePart II

• Bronze Age and Mycenaean Civilization end 1100
  BCE (Dorian Invasion)
• New civilization begins in 1000 BCE
• Geometric period 1000-700 BCE
• Orientalizing period 700-600 BCE
• Archaic period 600-480 BCE

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Rise of Ancient GreeceGEOMETRIC PERIOD
(1000-700BCE)

• Also known as the Heoric Age
• No political center independent city states
• Polis ruled by council of aristocrats
• Independent

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Rise of Ancient GreeceGEOMETRIC PERIOD
(1000-700BCE)

• Pottery
• Geometric style
• decorative geometric bands cover the surface
• Shows concern for proportion and thoughtful
  composition and placement of elements
• Commonly narrate funeral procession
• Krater large vase with a wide mouth, used as a
  burial marker

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Rise of Ancient GreeceGEOMETRIC PERIOD
(1000-700BCE)

• Pottery

What are the differences between the Geometric
style and the Aegean style?
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Rise of Ancient GreeceGEOMETRIC PERIOD
(1000-700BCE)

• Sculpture
• Not much exists because the material was
  perishable
• Mostly animals
• Most likely used as sacrifices to the gods in
  place of real animals
• What exists was found in burial tombs
• Simple, abstract and sophisticated

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Rise of Ancient GreeceGEOMETRIC PERIOD
(1000-700BCE)

• Sculpture
• Abstract style
• Hat and belt
• Pinched waste
• Exaggeration of important features

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Rise of Ancient GreeceGEOMETRIC PERIOD
(1000-700BCE)

• Known as the Heroic Age because of Iliad and
  Odyssey
• Becomes the basis for Greek education because of
  model of conductof heroism and pride, of cunning
  and loyalty (Benton and Yanni 69).
• Iliad great deeds on the battlefield, military
  glory, narrow view
• Achilles tale of purely physical strength
• Odyssey values of home and hearth, patience and
  wisdom
• Odysseus tale of wisdom gained through suffering
• Conflict to return home as prince or experience
  adventure and test himself as a hero

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Rise of Ancient GreeceORIENTALIZING PERIOD
(700-600 BCE)

• Polis begin trading with the East (Egypt, Persia
  and Phoenicia)
• First see human form sculptures
• Unified language with introduction of an alphabet

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Rise of Ancient GreeceORIENTALIZING PERIOD
(700-600 BCE)

• Pottery
• Inspired by the oriental
• Move away from geometric as form more important
  (animals, human, etc)
• Color reveals origin of vases
• Symmetry evident
• Human form influenced by Egypt and animal form
  influenced by Mesopotamia

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Rise of Ancient GreeceORIENTALIZING PERIOD
(700-600 BCE)

• Pottery

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Rise of Ancient GreeceORIENTALIZING PERIOD
(700-600 BCE)

• Sculpture

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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)

• Study of human form, naturalism
• Pottery
• Sculpture
• Architecture
• Literature

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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)

• Pottery
• Black Figure Vases
• Black glaze over a natural red clay vase
• Designs etched in and filled with color
• Imperfect silhouettes
• Symmetry
• Human form vs. animals
• Limited by tools

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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)

• Pottery

Narratives told stories of mythology, battles and
winners of olympic games
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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)

• Pottery
• Red Figure Style
• Background around subject is glazed in black and
  figures are painted on with a brush
• Details are no longer etched in more detail and
  sophistication

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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)

• Pottery

Composition is detailed and in rectangle to
follow the shape of the vase.
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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)

• Architecture
• Doric style simple, severe, powerful and not
  decorative
• Appears disproportionate and awkward

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Thick heavy columns. Shaft abruptly tapers at the
capital bulge look of the column
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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)

• Sculpture
• Kouros life-size representation of nude male
  youth, standing with one foot forward and arms at
  sides
• Koré softer or female version. Clothing
  softened statue
• Eastern influences
• Stylized, painted and decorated
• Later became more naturalistic (true human form)
• Proportions become natural (waist)

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Rise of Ancient GreeceARCHAIC PERIOD (600-480
BCE)
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Art in Early Greece

• The Archaic period 650-490 B.C. Progression
  from the Egyptian models
• Naturalism attempt to represent objects as they
  appear in nature
• Vase painting red-figure technique figures left
  unpainted
• Greeks range of feelings and actions

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Early Greek Poetry

• Homeric epics long narrative poems heroic
  deeds hero who brings pride to country. Iliad
  and Odyssey First masterpieces of Western
  literature.
• distant and communal perspective
• Heroes Achilles and Odysseus
• Despite mans frailties, his life is noble

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Sapphos Lyric Poetry

• Lyric poems brief, expressing feelings, often
  accompanied by a lyre.
• Sapphos poems expressed her love for her women
  friends.
• Lived her life on the island of Lesbos