AR104 Lecture 18: AR104 Greek Painting and Sculpture (March 6)
17 Mar 2017
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Geometric art: highly sophisticated in its abstraction and sense of design. Above left: macmillan aryballos attributed to chigi painter. Above right: funeral vase with scenes from homer"s iliad. Beside: detail from lion hunt oinochoe, proto-corinthian. Corinthian ware: emphasized animal and plant motifs based on oriental influences- included real and mythical animals. Corinthian vase painting in the archaic period= function of political and economic prowess of corinth. Below left: early corinthian vase with a. Olpe featuring a snake between lions and fantastic panther birds. Beginning 6th century bce, stemming from egyptian influence, greek artists in all media developed an interest in naturalistic portrayal of human body. Artists still emphasized what they considered was the ideal physique. This change evident in some late corinthian vase paintings. Unpainted clay in this period was reddish-brown so to create a black-figure vase painting, artist would paint a figure black and use a stylus to dig out red lines for detail.
