Birth of greek art - painting Flashcards

Question

What are the key features of the Geometric Horse from the 8th century made of bronze?

Answer 1

- Natural forms have been reduced to natural and harmonious curves - Static nature of the curve is a result of its strong tectonic formation (focuses on verticals and horizontals) - Bears a close resemblance to the horses from geometric pottery

Answer 2

- Humans represented as the total of all the parts of their body - Neck is elongated, calves are broadened and the testicles are enlarged - Facial features look like they are simple and stuck on - Naked except for a multiple band belt and a pointed cap - There seems to be no harmony or bone structure to the body of the man - Hole in hand that shows he had held a spear and wears a shield that looks like the ones seen in geometric pottery

Answer 3

It would be sacrilege to melt them down since they were sacrifices to the gods

Answer 4

- Hands that look like they should be able to hod spears - Body is more compact than that of the the Thessalian - Stull has little sense of natural bone structure - Contorts of the figurines triangular torso is naturally rounded - Butt, knees and calves are more well-articulated - Har looks more like a raised skullcap-like hair - Facial features are still more exaggerated

Answer 5

- Conical helmet makes it clear they are ment to be warriors - Static nature of tectonic figures makes it look like they are embracing despite them being in battle - Looks like there was supposed to be an attachment where a sword or thunderbolt is supposed to be being thrust into the centaurs side - Thought to be either Zeus thrusting a thunderbolt into a centaur (Kronos) or Herakles thrusting a sword into the centaur (Nessos) - Optimum view is the profile view (for understanding the piece as a whole)

Answer 6

- From the foundations of the houses - Faience plaques representing house facades (ca 1.5 inches in height)

Answer 7

- Much bigger, one of the largest Minoan Palaces - Ruins of the palace lay in a fertile plain near the sea - Built up against a relatively low hill - Believed the palace began as a town with buildings built around a Public Square and slowly became a palace as a large roof covered over said open air arias which would explain the strange hallways and lines of movement - seldom on axis - Suggests that this palace wasn't preplanned as a whole

Answer 8

- Mycenaean palaces usually crowned the summit of the hills - Surrounded by large, fortified, defensive walls - Had large gates and cyclopean walls - Stone blocks of the walls were all set without motor - Had a ramp on the outside so any warriors coming to attack would have one side of their bodies exposed - Walls were broken by hallways made from a corbelled Arch - Mycenaean palaces were pre planned before being built - Had a chief Megaron in the middle of the courtyard (becomes the nucleus of Greek temples)

Answer 9

- Naos: a living space, may refer to a temple as a whole, later on is usually equated with the main cult room of a temple and is equivalent to the latin term cella (held a cult image) - Had a main megaron - Buildings had high peak roofs - Could be rectangular or apsidal (in the form of a curved recess or apse) - Thermon - a complex of houses that were old megarons - Temenos - the boundary of a sanctuary - Had an acutely sloping roof (more likely they actually had roofs that didn't slope as much)

Answer 10

- Consisted of a single chamber called a hekatompedon (100 feet long) - had a base for cult image and wooden posts on longitudinal axis - First temple is only 20 feet wide which makes it seem longer - Posts divide the temple into two spaces - Peripteral plan: the surrounding of a temple building with a portico or colonnade, the surrounding is also called a pteron - Plans of an end end of the geometric period Greek temple had a colonnade of wooden columns on all four sides

Answer 11

Roughly 700-600 BC in the Greek Colonies - Influence of the near east (middle east) and Egypt on art in Greece

Answer 12

Colonization - In the east, most of the colonies were along the western coast of Asia minor - Ionia was an area of Greek colonization in Asia Minor - Naucratis and Al Mina were other Greek colonies, both trade centers that are only known to us through archeology - Tip of Italy became so Hellenized that it became known as Magna Graccia by the Romans

Answer 13

- Learned metal work, use of molds, ivory carving, and terracotta - Borrowed plant and animal motifs such as lions, sphixes, griffins, roosters, lotus flowers, palmettes, intertwined tendrils and Potnia Theron animas - Vase painters discovered the possibilities of legendary and mythological subjects in the 7th century

Answer 14

Curved lines and lively colors

Answer 15

A small vase for scenting oil commonly used by athletes - was about 3" tall and did not exceed a height of 4"

Answer 16

They began to expand, fill out, and gain volume - Muscles and joints become more formed - Defined through the black-figure technique

Answer 17

A painting technique in which figures are silhouetted in black against a light ground and details are added with incised lines; black-figures were first developed by Corinthian painters

Answer 18

Use of several colors in painting

Answer 19

Use of predominantly one color