ART 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Archaic Smile, Geometric Art, Krater

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If your heart (everything a person was) weighed against feather, heavier = dead person condemned to non existence. Olympian gods: zeus, hera, apollo, hades, etc. Major difference: ancient egyptian (info for afterlife) greece is not about that, more concerned of how they"re affecting people left behind. Scenes on vases (meander pattern krater)--> geometric pattern. Hole in bottom, pour wine into, down to earth, feed decease. Korus (youth) refers to male, hips and shoulders level, stepping forward with left foot, wide eyes. She"s not nude, treatment of hair and face detailed, styled hair. Mode naturalistic muscles, not just drawn on. Cool for men to walk around nude. Earliest shrines made of wood, mud-brick, and thatch. Structure made to use the cult statues of the gods, not for habitation or even worship. The word architecture comes from the greek word archetecture meaning master carpenter.

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