Greek Art (WHA)

What technique is used to create the background in red-figure pottery?

Covered in slip

The majority of the decoration is geometric patterns (900-700 BCE)

Geometric

How are figures depicted in black-figure pottery?

In black

orientalizing

Influenced from trade with eastern Mediterranean with swirling patterns and exotic animals. Ex of patter: pyramids.

How are details added to figures in red-figure pottery?

Later with a sharp brush

How are the figures outlined in red-figure pottery?

Left in natural clay

What color is the background in black-figure pottery?

Natural clay color

What technique is used to create details in black-figure pottery?

Scratching off with a sharp tool

amphora and red figure

What pot is this? and what shape?

kylix and red figure

What pot is this? and what shape?

red figure and krate

What pot is this? and what shape?

caryatid

a female figure that functions as a supporting column

entasis

a slight curve in the shaft of a column so it looks straight from far away

corinthian order

acanthus leaves on the capital, not always fluted (so it does not distract from the leaves), and columns are usually more slender than the doric order.

entablature

between the capital and the pediment

triglyphs

decorative panel on the entablature representing the end of a beam

metope

decorative panel on the entablature sculpted in relief

cycladic sculptures

earliest sculpted human forms in the hellenic world, and often created as fertility offerings to the gods. This style lasted between 3200-2000 BCE.

classical sculpture

height of idealized human body; focused on creating movement and ideal proportions (popular during 550-350 BCE)

doric order

plain capital usually fluted and most common and greek architecture

ionic order

scrolled capital, usually fluted and more slender than the doric order.

archaic sculptures

sort of stiff because they did not understand how to portray movement and facial expressions were awkward and idealistic. They were the idealised look of a person, not natural. Popular during 800 - 500 BCE.

kourus

standing male nude (archaic)

kore

standing robed female (archaic)

entablature

what is this?

pediment

what is this?

black figure and lekythos

what pot is this? and what shape?

Rhyton

what shape pot is this?

frieze

where the statues are displayed