Finals: Classical Period Flashcards
True or False: This “aboutness” is what allows us to experience them as art
true
BROAD AREAS of meaning that have been reflected in the arts of many culture through THROUGH HUMAN HISTORY
Themes of Art
What are the diff Themes of Art?
- The Sacred Realm
- Politics and Social Order
- Stories and Histories
- Looking Outward: Here and Now
- Looking Inward: The Human Experience
- Invention and Fantasy
- The Natural World
- Art and Art (Art for Art’s Sake)
Theme for gods & goddesses; because of Churches (house of gods)
The Sacred Realm
Parthenon, Greece
Statue of Athena
Pantheon, Rome (Perfect Circle/Universe)
The Last Supper
The Sacred Realm
The Great Pyramids
Guernica by Pablo Picasso (a city bombed in Civil War, Mexico)
Poleteismo by Mideo Cruz (CCP, mixed media are exhibit)
Politics and Social Order
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Ramayana
Statue of Leda and the Swan
Dying Achilles
Stories & Histories
Gleaners The Angelus The Stone Breakers Young Ladies of the Village The Picnic The Banjo Lesson Gas Boy Young Shopper
Looking Outward
The Scream
Convergence
Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits
The Lovers II
Looking Inward
Subjectivity; based on one’s feelings and emotions
Looking Inward: Human Experience
Empty Dream (Mermaids fantasy in the beach scene) The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali) Dismaland
Invention and Fantasy
theme based on one’s dreams/fantasy
Invention and Fantasy
theme about nature and outdoor painting
Natural World
White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang
Impression Sunrise (Claude Monet)
La Grenouillere
The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Natural World
Theme where an artist exercises his skills; not created to have meaning, only for the sake of creating it
Art for Art’s Sake
Summer Moon
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp (upside-down na men urinal)
Art for Art’s Sake
Is the period in which the Greek and the Roman society flourished throughout Europe
Classical Period
Classical Period era is collectively known as?
Greco-Roman World
Classical Period starts with the culture of? And who imitated them?
Ancient Greeks; Romans imitated them
The city states of Ancient Greece
Polis
Polis were built where? why?
often on high places: rocky hills and low mountains.
-This is where they build their important temples and where they retreat when under attack
= Acropolis
literally means high city in Greek
Acropolis
etymology of Acropolis
Akron - highest or topmost
Polis - city
one of the famous building in the acropolis in Athens
Parthenon
The Parthenon’s massive foundations are made up of what?
limestone
Parthenon Columns are made of?
Pentelic marble
flawless white with a faint yellow tint that’s why it looks shining when the sunlight passes through it.
Pentelic marble
is a temple which shelters the monumental statue of Athena
Parthenon
Statue of Athena is made of?
Gold and Ivory
Parthenon is derived from?
Athena herself, Athena Parthenos which means virgin
emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry, and regularity of parts
Classicism
Columns that have no bases
Doric order
is the central area or city where ancient Rome developed
Roman Forum
Here was commerce, business, religion, prostitution, and many other things that is imminent in the Roman culture happened
Roman Forum
How many spectators were allowed in the Colosseum?
55,000 (seated by rank)
one of the best preserved of all ancient roman buildings and has been in continuous use throughout history
Pantheon
Pantheon was commissioned by?
Marcus Agrippa (during the reign of Augustus - founder of Roman Empire)
What does the inscription in the Pantheon means?
Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, consul for the third time, built this.
has been famously known as a perfect space; it is a perfect universe.
Pantheon
Eye is to symbolize the life giving sun as the light.
Oculus/Great Eye
The interior of Pantheon symbolizes what
heavens
is the central point of the Pantheon for it is the source of light
Oculus
Classical Period Sculptures were divided into four stages:
Archaic (Kouros)
Classical (Kritios Boy)
Hellenistic
Roman
in which the kouros were sculpted
Archaic
Kouros in Greek means?
Youth or a boy
they are highly symmetrical and every body parts are depicted in simple geometric forms
Kouros (Archaic)
highlights the poses in shaping sculptures
Classical Period
the first that have used the contrapposto
Kritian / Kritios Boy
The body supports its body on the left leg and the right knee is bent in a relaxing state.
contrapposto
What does contrapposto means?
Counterpose
during this period sculptures became more and more naturalistic and common people or animals can be subjects for sculpture
Hellenistic Period
known for the draping and effects of clothing and they are posed slightly to the side for in this stance, muscles are more flexed.
Hellenistic Period
The Greeks love to paint but some of their works have not survived on walls or paper but survived as
pottery decoration
features circles, patterns of straight, wavy and zigzag lines
Protogeometric Style
illustrates the profoundly significant shift of focus from abstract design to the human figure.
Geometric Style
The Greeks also learned the art of doing the black figure where the potter makes the vase first, then let it dry. Then he designed his the painting by putting in a ?
Slip
a clay but more liquid
Slip
The Classical Literature was the territory of the four famous poets:
Homer, Ovid, Lucan, Horace
was more popular for his two works of art the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
It tells the story of the Trojan War that is caused by Agamemnon’s pride and Helen’s abduction by Paris. It also depicts the fall of troy and the death of so many characters because of the gods’ intervention.
Iliad
is the story of the Greek hero Odyssey, ten years have passed since the fall of Troy but he has not yet returned to Ithaca, his kingdom.
Odyssey
Black figures on gold (pots)
Black-figure
Gold figures on black (pots)
Red-figure
For romans, they have an ancient poet
Virgil
Author of epic Aeneid
Virgil
highlights the rise of the Roman Empire
Aeneid
These three epics all have gods that interact with the mortals which is highly the Classical characteristic and Homerian style of writing.
Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid
