Art of Ancient Greece

Geometric and Orientalizing Periods

• Meandering Patterns – Key Patterns• 8th Cent. – *Human Figure Returned

to Greek Art (esp. painted on ceramic Greek Pots)

• The Nature of Art’s Ornament in this Period Gave the Name Geometric

Geometric Period

• Geometric figures during this period are depicted with:• Triangular torsos• Triangular profile heads• Round dots for eyes• Long and thin rectangles for arms,• Long legs with bulging thighs and high calf

muscles.

Geometric Period

• Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE

• Time when:• Olympic games

established• Homer’s epic poems

were recorded• Marked head of grave

– power of individual• Abstract angular

motifs• Registers, triangular

humans, funeral procession

Meandering Pattern

5 minute: GROUP RESEARCH: How does the Greek funeral processiondiffer from Old Kingdom Egypt? What might that suggest about these culture’s beliefs about afterlife? YOU WILL PRESENT AFTERWARD!

• Influences from Near East and Egypt Cultures

• Borrowed ideas, motifs, conventions, and skills from older civilizations

Orientalizing Period

Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes, from Rhodes, Greece, ca. 625-600

BCE

• Amphora = two handled storage jar

• Orientalizing Period defined from motifs from Egypt and Near East

• Lions, native boar, panthers, Eastern sphinx and lamassu

• Corinthian’s invented black-figure painting, later adopted by Athenians

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Geometric Homework Assignment

Create two registers that define in narrative what you did this weekend. Each register must be approximately one inch

tall and 3 inches long. Must be geo figures. Submit at Beginning of next class.

Good luck and have fun!