Set Design at Delphi

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Set Design at Delphi

• Understanding Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
  Greek Art

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• Utilize elements of Archaic, Classical, and
  Hellenistic in your set design

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Archaic

• 600 BCE- 480 BCE
• Arts developed rapidly during this period.
• In architecture stone and marble replaced the
  earlier mud brick and wood construction.

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Archaic

• Doric and Ionic Orders developed during this
  period.
• Kore and Kouros sculptures
• Anatomy of sculpture uses ridges and grooves to
  form geometric patterns.

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Archaic

• Archaic smile, arms usually rigidly placed at the
  sculptures sides
• One leg of sculptures is slightly in front of the
  other.

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Classical Period

• This period is framed by two major events The
  defeat of the Persians in 479 BCE and the death
  of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE.

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Classical Period

• 479 BCE- 322 BCE
• Ideal and the General
• Aloof expressions on sculptures

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Classical Period

• Humanism
• Rationalism
• Idealism

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Classical Period

• Adages carved into the Temple of Apollo such as
• Man is the measure of all things
• Know thyself
• Nothing in excess

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Classical Period

• Humanism imagined their gods looked like perfect
  human beings
• Apollo for example is the exemplified Greek
  ideal body and mind in balance

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Classical Period

• Rationalism Greeks at this time valued reason
  over emotion. The Greeks saw aspects of life
  including the arts as having meaning and pattern.
  
• Cannon of proportions

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Idealism

• The True
• The Good
• The Beautiful

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Hellenistic Period

• 323 BCE- 30 BCE
• Individual and Specific
• Turns from subject matter of heroic to the
  everyday.

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Hellenistic Period

• Sculptures begin to show human emotion.
• Appeals to the senses with dramatic poses and
  subjects
• Architecture begins to reflect taste for high
  drama.

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Resources/Contributions

• Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History Second Edition
  Volume One. New Jersey Prentice-Hall Inc., 2002.