Greek Art
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistorical civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the ancient period. It took in influences of Eastern civilizations and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity.
The most usual art forms were: • Vase painting, marked by geometrical designs • Small religious figurines in clay
Archaic Greek art
Animal motifs
A monumental element began to appear in Greek art about 600 B. C.
The Temple of the goddess Hera at Olympia, a construction with wooden pillars
The temple of Apollo at Corinth
The temples of the Doric order retained their solemn and rigid character down to classical times
The Ionic order was evolved in which the slender, tall columns have deeply fluted shafts, a complex base, and on the ornamented headpiece is a capital with a pair of outwardly curling spirals called volutes
Limestone
Marble
The problems of depicting physical shape
The beginning of the 6 th century Vase painting Mythological, ceremonial and moral subjects
The classical period
Designers in Greece produced architectural form which proved to be a basic source for the following 25 centuries
The Parthenon- a temple honouring the goddess Athena
• On the Acropolis • Between the years 447 and 433 B. C. • Constructed in marble
A natural optical illusion which would imply a slightly concave movement in perfectly straight steps
Myron «Disco bolus»
Polycletus- «Spear Bearer»
Phidias
Phidias is an artist of great genius…
Proved opportunities for the gradual unveiling of the female figure The figure of Arhrodite
Praxiteles • The great master of the period • Introduced a love foe a sensual aspects of the human body and for calm mood
«Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus»
«Venus of Milo» «the Winged Victory of Samothrace»
The Hellenistic period
The Doric order lost some of its rigidity, the column became slender, the space between the columns were enlarged. The more adaptable Ionic order was used increasingly in architecture with greater variation and more ornamental features
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