Chapter 3 Flashcards
Time before written history
Paleolithic Period
Generic stone figures of Paleolithic
Venus–Venus of Willendorf dated to 2000 BC. fertility
first cave paintings
Lascaux Caves–iron ore. Picasso says the art is really good. Maybe religious
Egypt
First great civilization 5000-1000. Paintings sculptures tombs columns obelisks
purpose for Egyptian art
religion. deep concern for life and death
pyramids
tombs, middle and biggest to Khufu
Great Sphinx at Giza
Khafre
Step pyramid of Saqqara
oldest step pyramid, for Djoser, by Imhotep
post-and-lintel
2 or more vertical columns supporting a horizontal beam
obelisk
slender, tapered square shaft. often commemorative, like Washington Monument
painting
stylized, frozen gestures departing from reality. May seem naive to us
Relevo
carved like relief out of stone–Mycerinus and His Queen
music
no notated left. Written evidence and pictures found. Feast at the House of Nakht depicts Egyptian musicians
Crete
Minoans on Crete with frescos (wall painting on wet plaster). Acrobats and Bulls fresco on Crete.
Islands north of Crete
Cycladic islands.
Mycenaean Peninsula
Mycenaea–gold and silver masks
Cradle of western cultural development
Greece
Greek periods
Archaic 1000-800 indigenous Greek art
Lyric 800-500 poetry
Golden 500-323 high point of Greece, Pericles
Hellenistic 323-100 decadent (moral decline) Greek art
480 end of Persian Wars..
precipitated a flood of artistic energy in spoils of war and stability
purpose of Greek Hellenic art
homage to gods (public works)
Pericles 460
program to make Athens the cultural and artistic center of Greece
Athenian society
freeborn
dominate attitude of Athenian society
worldliness–concerned mainly wit problems of human life
Aim of Athenians
live happily and beautifully–man is the measure of all things. understand the world with math, logic, and reason
Greek gods
Zeus–King
Apollo–Sun
Mercury–Commerce
Aphrodite–Love/Beauty
Life after death for Greeks
little interest
Greek gods compared to humans
only more beautiful and wise
dominated Greek art and music
math
Greeks most interested in
effect of art/music on people (Plato and Aristotle)
platform columns rest on
stylobate
top of column
capital–ornate or simple
horizontal beam above capital
entablature (architrave (lintel), metope, triglyph)
pediment
triangular space at front and back
frieze
triglyph and metope
did the Greeks use post and lintel?
yeet
columns
doric, ionic, corinthian
Parthenon
Phidias to Athena, Acropolis, 9:4, 3 step stylobate, columns swell in middle
Vases
information about painting on them
Greek music
vocal with doubling (string) instrument (monophonic). essential element is poetry (rhythm derived from it). Evident from philosophers and pieces of art. Poetry, music, and dancing. Obsessed. Used as medicine or distraction
Pythagoras
4th, 5th, octave.
ethos
character, guiding belief. Plato says music can influence person’s will (spur to action, strengthen being, suspend normal willpower
Muses
9–each had an art
Skolion of Skelios
Hellenistic music piece. enjoy life.
random Hellenistic art
drunk woman, Gaul killing himself and his wife, the dying Gaul, the altar of Zeus. basically immoral and decadent stuff.
