ART 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pediment, Beeswax, Propylaea

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Classical art- greek art review: midterm 2 (part 1) Greek art and culture is seen as the beginning of western ideas and cultural characteristics. Their art can be seen in four general periods. 4 time periods: geometric period (900-700 bce, period is defined by pottery decorated with geometric designs, concept for visual relationships and design begins, art works, funerary vase w/funery scene. 3: important artists, phidias, polykleitos, praxiteles, lysippos, iktinos, kallikrates, important works, discus thrower c. 450 bce, kritios boy c. 480bce, young warrior (riace, italy) c. 460 bce, spear bearer c. 440 bce, canon, contrapposto stance, composition, idealized. Key points: geometric vase, part of the geometric style, flourished between 900-700 bce, ceramic vessels exhibit complex, linear and stylized decorations, kouros & kore, archaic free-sanding sculptures, kouros- male statue. Means young man in greek: represented gods, warriors and athletes, kore- female statue. Gives an air of self-confident seriousness : bronze; lost-wax technique, bronze statues are originals.

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