Ancient Greece-Archaic

Question 0

Answer 0

Metropolitan Kouros Archaic 6 BCE

Medium

• marble

Function

• Used to mark grave
• or votive offering
• Make the abstract tangible

Appearance

• Perfect proportions, symetricality, and nudity
  
  • Represented ideal beauty
  • Broad shoulders trim waist
• Archaic smile
• Leg in front of other
  
  • movement/progress
• Clenched fists
• Perfect/strict posture
• Carved in the round
• Schematized areas
  
  • knees, pelvis, chest, muscles, ribs
• Almond shaped eyes
  
  • influenced by Egyptian trade
• Simple patterns

Question 1

Answer 1

Peplos Kore, Akropolis, Athens Archaic 6 BCE

Medium

• Marble and pure white paint

Function

• Votive offering
  
  • Female figures always were

Appearance

• Long stiff dress covers female body
• Rigid pose
• Four feet tall
• Long braided hair
• Elaborate clothing
• Once wore crown and jewelry
• Once painted with animal frieze
• Missing arm
  
  • might have held object showing identify
  • arm into socket
• Archaic smile

Question 2

Answer 2

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina Archaic 6 BCE

• Doric order ( steps, column, entablature, pediment) Marble
• Dedicated to local goddess (Aphaia)
• Religious rituals carried outside
• Specific mathematical calculations used to build
• Pediment shows Battle of Troy
  
  • Athena favors/helps Greeks

Question 3

Answer 3

Dying Warrior from West Pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina Archaic 6 BCE

Medium

• marble, bronze (originally) and paint (originally)

Function

• Representative of battle against Troy
• Formidable foe
  
  • difficult to beat
• Greeks have courage and skill

Appearance

• Goddess in middle helping with battle Enemy has same form
• Muscular
• idealistic face and body
• More realistic than past
• Wounded, falling, dying
  
  • stabbed
• Slight archaic smile
• Doesn’t exhibit pain in face
• Original paint and bronze
  
  • heighten reality
• Non-realistic contortion

Question 4

Answer 4

Dying Warrior from East Pediment, Temple of Aphai, Akropolis, Athens Archaic 6 BCE

Medium

• marble and paint

Function

• Depict Trojan war
• Show formadable foe
• Glorify Greek soldiers

Appearance

• Archaic style
  
  • body type, nudity, etc.
• Loss of energy and life
• Weakening body
  
  • Limp hands
  • Shield supporting
  • Other arm support
• Body and head twist
  
  • going down
• Struggle with believable anatomy

Question 5

Answer 5

Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game (Exekias, potter/painter) Archaic 6 BCE

Medium

• Red figure painting
• Ceramic amphora

Function

• All-purpose storage jar
• Depict mythology & narrative
  
  • dramatic irony implied

Appearance

• Ajax and Achilles
  
  • black figure design
  • shown as heroic warrors
  • in profile
  • musculature
  • abstract black figure
• linear design used
  
  • preferred
  • easy to read
• Achilles wears helmit and wins
  
  • ironic due to immenent death
• Ajax has helmet aside
  
  • tied to unpreparation for achilles death
• Spears and helmets offer balance and symetricality
  
  • appeals to preferance of order & self control
• 3D in Curves

Question 6

Answer 6

Frolicking Satyrs (Douris) Archaic 6 BCE

Medium

• Red figure painting
• Ceramic psykter

Function

• Wine cooler
• Float/chill water
• Used for symposia
• Cautionary device for self control

Appearance

• Built to keep from tipping
• Displays nature of Satyrs
  
  • drunked prancing
  • 1/2 men 1/2 goat
• Beards=maturity/adulthood
• Ideal body used
• Shows lust in nakedness
• Erect phalus=lust, excess, lack of self control
• Movement percieved in curving lines