GREEK ART

ARCHITECTURE

• Copied by other cultures

• Characteristics:

– Search for beauty =Proportion

– Material: Stone.

– Buildings: Temples and Theaters

ARCHITECTURE: THE CLASSICAL ORDER

• They were: – Doric: sober,

without decoration. No pedestal

– Ionic: thin colums and rich decoration

– Corinthian: elaborated capitals decorated with acanthus leaves

ARCHITECTURE: THE CLASSICAL

ORDER

doric column

ionic column

corinthian column

pediment

caryatid

TEMPLES

• Rectangular

• Cella (small chamber)

to keep the statue of

the god/goddess

• Surrounded by rows

of columns: Peristyle

THE ACROPOLIS

Athena Nike

THE ACROPOLIS

Athena Nike

Parthenon

TEMPLES

Agrigento

Paestum

Segesta

TEMPLES

Olympian Zeus

THEATRES

• Built on hillsides

• Designed to help

acoustics and visibility

• Semi-circle shape

THEATRES

Epidaurus

THEATRES

Thdionysus

THEATRES

Delphi Theater

SCULPTURE

• Copied by other cultures

• Characteristics:

– Search for the ideal beauty:

• Ideal Proportions

• Classical canon of

Polykleitos (1/7)

– Movement

– Balance

• Stages:

– Archaic Period

– Classical Period

– Hellenistic Period

SCULPTURE: Archaic Period

• Represented naked

young men (Kouroi)

and women (Korai)

• Characteristics:

– Standing position, rigid

– Facing forward

– No facial expressions

SCULPTURE: Classical Period

• 5th-4th BC.

• Characteristics:

– Classical Canon

– Serene facial

expresions

– Authors:

• Phidias

Doryphoros (Polikleitos)

SCULPTURE: Classical Period

Praxiteles

SCULPTURE: Classical Period

Diadumenus by Polykleitos

Discus Thrower by Myron

SCULPTURE: Hellenistic Period

• 4th-3rd BC.

• Characteristics:

– Body twisted in

exaggerated

movements

– Facial expressions

show human feelings as

pain, strength, stress…

Laocoön and his sons

SCULPTURE: Hellenistic Period