CLAS 1270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Greek Dark Ages, Protogeometric Style, Geometric Art
4 Jan 2017
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Images are painted on the vase with different coloured glazes - reds, browns, blacks: lines and patterns frame bands - can see brush strokes. Images of humans, animals, beasts: hints of geometric pattern. Sculptures and statues: reliefs - stylized, deep outline, flat. Ivory statuettes - stylized and ornate: terracotta figurines - simple stylized forms - offerings at shrines/temples. Protogeometric period - greek dark ages (1100-700 bc) Vases: heavy bands, simple geometric shapes, large and repeated, avoidance of portraying humans, animals, and myths. Terracotta figurines: simplest forms, painted in the geometric style. Centaur - not painted with fur - just shapes. Geometric period - greek dark ages (1100-700 bc) Vases: show more refinement, patterns more detailed, central space may include scenes and figures. Bronze statues - stylized figures of the pottery are paralleled in bronze. Vases: technology changes, figures in black and refined by scraping lines into red surface, scenes of myths, partly geometric, cluttered scenes.
