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
