GREEK ART

GREEK ART

Archaic Period(c.650-480 BCE)

Archaic Greek Pottery:
-involving large vases and decorated originally with linear designs “proto-geometric style”, more elaborate patterns “geometric style” of triangles, zigzags, etc. and there was also the “oriental style” which was mastered by the Corinth ceramicists.
- Black-figure pottery: the first figure to drawn in black silhouette and marked with incised detail.

 -Red figure pottery:
Ceramic artist including the genius Exekias, Kleitias,Andokides,Euthymides,Ergotimos,          
Lydos,Nearchos and also Sophilos

Archaic Greek Architecture:
-typical rectangular building,surrounded by a line of columns on all four sides(eg: the Parthenon)
-roofs were constructed with timber beams overlaid with terracotta tiles.
-pediments were decorated with reliefs sculpture or friezes and the row of lintels between the roof and the tops of the columns.
-introduced “Classical Orders” : A set of design rules based on propositions between imdividuals part such as the ratio between the width and the height of a column.

-Three such orders :
¡Doric-used in mainland Greece and later Greek settlement in Italy.
¡Ionic-used in buildings along the west coast of Turkey.
¡Corinthian

Archaic Greek Sculpture:
-heavily influenced by the Egyptian sculpture and Syrian techniques.
-created stone friezes and reliefs, statues(in stones,terracotta and bronze) and miniture works(on ivory and bone)


Archaic Greek Painting:
-the growth of pottery and sculpture automatically lead to more work for painters.
-the walls of many temples,municipal buildings and tombs were decorated with fresco
painting while their marble and wooden sculpture were coloured with tempera or
encaustic paint.

Classical Greek Pottery:
-during this era, ceramic art and vase painting a progressively decline.
-final creatice development was the White Ground technique. 


Classical Greek Sculpture:
- between the 480-330 BCE was the most productive years in sculptures.
-there have sub-divided into: Early(480-450) , High(450-400) and Late Classical Greek
Sculpture(400-323).



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