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
• https://goo.gl/IFcIDL
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!