Visual Arts History 2247E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Burial, Geometric Art, Krater
27 Sep 2017
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Greek mourning gesture no facial expression. Men are shown heroically nudity is a god-like abstract. Greeks always altered reality to show an opinion or idealization. Painter visually shows who the subject is by how they are dressed/posed. After 800 language and writing was reintroduced. Iliad describes the last few months of the bronze age before the collapse of greece. Many greek families claimed ancestry to the heroes from the trojan war. Some of the earliest evidence of writing mentions homer and his poems. Only two shapes for grave markers - the pedestal krater and belly handle amphora. Mark of wealth the actual pot, funerary shroud. On mans pot artist forgoes perspective wants to show the 4 legs of the bed. Cant know the age of the deceased image will always be of a young strong man. Man has two public scenes: men were prohibited from bearing arms yet they are armed in the ekphora.
