Ancient Greek Art 1:
● A sense of government
● A sense of greater good
● Body is rigid, block-like
● Not human, shoulders is too wide, neither leg is bent, etc
● Kouros from attica
● No stone in between the arms/waist/legs
● Nudity is important !
● Have to do with the human body/human brain life)
● This sculpture is a young man who is showing strength because he is transitioning to a
man from a boy
● Preservation
● Idea behind(recreating life)
● Theory: young god
● Was found to possibly have been a offering
● 3 phases in greek art
● The first phase is archaic
● The second phase is classical
● The third phase is hellenistic
● Similarity to egyptian culture in stance
● The full nude of the body,long hair, almond shaped eyes
● The carving isn’t superior yet
● Insides of elbows and knees have a strong and sense of detail
● Certain features are inaccurate such as feet
● Movement = life
● Natural progression
● Study of the human body
● The greeks is more about accuracy
● The idea of the sculptures is to show “life”
● Kroisos
● aries/fight upper ranks
● More rounded modeling of face/torso than egypt art
● High cheekbones
● Next phase(classical)
● When you have a abandonment of the rigid,unnatural, egyptian pose
● contra-posto(balanced against)
● A statue to see how a person naturally stands
● Kritios boy
● Human features
● The shifting of weight/turn of head
● Suggest the greeks are looking at actual people
● Extreme naturalism
● S-curve of spine
● Accurate portrait
, ● Polykleitos, spear bearer
● Went from looking human too perfect human
● Beyond human sculpture
● A human that has ideal looks(this sculpture)
● Polykleitos believed he can make a sculpture with harmonic proportions, (some relation
of leg and arm length)
● Untrue humans do not have perfect symmetry
● Thought to create perfect beauty
● Sculpture is overly developed
● Not realistic once again
● Buttocks are abnormally plump
● Most sculptures were made in bronze
● Additive sculpture
● Subtractive sculptures
● Relation to philosophy (hence plato)
● 470-490 persian attack
● Establish athens
● Plato relates to something ideal/beyond reality
● ex(allegory of the cave)
● Lived in the darkness so long, didn’t know the sun existed, there are things out in the
world beyond comprehension
● Most bronze sculptures are melted down, romans believed greek art is so beautiful
● Greek art vs roman art
● Marble quarries
● Aristotle
Personal comments/thoughts: After watching this lecture, the transition from Egyptian art to
Greek art is drastic. The attention to detail and all the patterns on each of these sculptures are
very precise. I loved how in this lecture that this topic was related to plato because surprisingly
the allegory of the cave is what I'm reading right now in my philosophy class! So, it was the
perfect example used and it was a very accurate example to show how there are so many ideas
that are beyond comprehension of some people because they are so used to practices and
ideas that they have been listening to that it eventually became all they know.
Greek Art pt 2
● Dying gaul continuation
● Hellenistic greek period
● Evolves out of a group of northern europeans
● Start in ireland,move towards germany
● Physically look different (vikings)
● Medieval lecture
● He is dying/wounded
● Been stabbed
● Alert Soldiers
● Given does who he is
● Even though wounded, he still seem strong
● A sense of government
● A sense of greater good
● Body is rigid, block-like
● Not human, shoulders is too wide, neither leg is bent, etc
● Kouros from attica
● No stone in between the arms/waist/legs
● Nudity is important !
● Have to do with the human body/human brain life)
● This sculpture is a young man who is showing strength because he is transitioning to a
man from a boy
● Preservation
● Idea behind(recreating life)
● Theory: young god
● Was found to possibly have been a offering
● 3 phases in greek art
● The first phase is archaic
● The second phase is classical
● The third phase is hellenistic
● Similarity to egyptian culture in stance
● The full nude of the body,long hair, almond shaped eyes
● The carving isn’t superior yet
● Insides of elbows and knees have a strong and sense of detail
● Certain features are inaccurate such as feet
● Movement = life
● Natural progression
● Study of the human body
● The greeks is more about accuracy
● The idea of the sculptures is to show “life”
● Kroisos
● aries/fight upper ranks
● More rounded modeling of face/torso than egypt art
● High cheekbones
● Next phase(classical)
● When you have a abandonment of the rigid,unnatural, egyptian pose
● contra-posto(balanced against)
● A statue to see how a person naturally stands
● Kritios boy
● Human features
● The shifting of weight/turn of head
● Suggest the greeks are looking at actual people
● Extreme naturalism
● S-curve of spine
● Accurate portrait
, ● Polykleitos, spear bearer
● Went from looking human too perfect human
● Beyond human sculpture
● A human that has ideal looks(this sculpture)
● Polykleitos believed he can make a sculpture with harmonic proportions, (some relation
of leg and arm length)
● Untrue humans do not have perfect symmetry
● Thought to create perfect beauty
● Sculpture is overly developed
● Not realistic once again
● Buttocks are abnormally plump
● Most sculptures were made in bronze
● Additive sculpture
● Subtractive sculptures
● Relation to philosophy (hence plato)
● 470-490 persian attack
● Establish athens
● Plato relates to something ideal/beyond reality
● ex(allegory of the cave)
● Lived in the darkness so long, didn’t know the sun existed, there are things out in the
world beyond comprehension
● Most bronze sculptures are melted down, romans believed greek art is so beautiful
● Greek art vs roman art
● Marble quarries
● Aristotle
Personal comments/thoughts: After watching this lecture, the transition from Egyptian art to
Greek art is drastic. The attention to detail and all the patterns on each of these sculptures are
very precise. I loved how in this lecture that this topic was related to plato because surprisingly
the allegory of the cave is what I'm reading right now in my philosophy class! So, it was the
perfect example used and it was a very accurate example to show how there are so many ideas
that are beyond comprehension of some people because they are so used to practices and
ideas that they have been listening to that it eventually became all they know.
Greek Art pt 2
● Dying gaul continuation
● Hellenistic greek period
● Evolves out of a group of northern europeans
● Start in ireland,move towards germany
● Physically look different (vikings)
● Medieval lecture
● He is dying/wounded
● Been stabbed
● Alert Soldiers
● Given does who he is
● Even though wounded, he still seem strong
