Greek Pottery Flashcards
(23 cards)
Oldest form of greek pottery
Minoan and Mycenaen which had a geometric style
orientalizing period
725-650. plants and animals reappear in bands of design
archaic period
methology and life are important and the development of black and red
black figure-
artists pain black images against natrual red clay and the details were etching
classical period:
white background was the one innovaction
3rd century BCE painting of pottery
before firing semmes to end
Greeks invented …
naturalism in sculpture
Geometric period–
Mantikios
Archaic Period–
forms stiff representative of types rather than portraits
Kouros means
youth
archaic period they had what kinds of smiles
archaic smile
female equivalent of kouros is…
kore or maiden
Archaic stiffness gave way to….
greater naturalism
naturalism …
intended to show the human body with balanced and harmonious proprtions
archaic smile replaced by (N)
serious expressions
classical sculptures portrayed humans in their
ideal form
HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE
characteristic feature is REALISM
portrait in HELLENISTIC began to flourish the time of…
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
artists in HELLENISTIC ]
were accurate with childhood, old age, physical deformity
drapery gives affect of
movement
clothing reveals (H)
body beneath
expressions took dramtic…(H
gestures contorted figures
painting in Hellenistic
Laocoon and His sons