ARTH-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Louvre, Pergamon Altar, Contrapposto
17 Aug 2016
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New style created by akhenaten (aka amenhotep iv: akhenaten and his family. The relief was meant to serve as a shrine in a private household: bust of nefertiti. Figures are in motion and are less strict. Idealistic scale seems to not have been followed. A possible function is to bring the depicted activity with the dead to the afterlife. Ancient greek art: general ideas + facts. Usually about the naked human body, since the greeks thought the human body was a beautiful subject. Greek architecture is found everywhere today; important to modern architecture: archaic greek art. Example: kouros (statue of a male youth: classical greek period. Contrapposto- pose when one leg bears the weight (seen today everywhere, many people are in this pose) Includes a figure at the base for support on an otherwise unstable statues. Example: diskobolos- (discus thrower) is in a pregnant pause : parthenon. Pediment and frieze relief sculptures (called the elgin marbles, which are now in.
