ART 1001 Lecture : Lecture 4 Study Guide
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Minoan culture > located on the island of crete (so-called after legendary king minos), ca. Mycenaean culture > culture of the greek mainland associated with mycenae (on the peloponnesus), ca. Early minoan art = geometric simplification: triangles, rectangles, cylinders, etc. Tiryns = massive ( cyclopean ) walls define the structure. Mycenae = part of the grave circle, located within the enclosure of the palace of mycenae. Greek pottery: krater = vessel form used for mixing wine and water, kylix = greek drinking cup, exekias = name of a potter-painter. After 530 b. c. e. , the even more precise red-figure technique (red-figure pottery) became widely used kuros figure = sculpture in the round of a male youth depicted nude) Archaic period: stiff, not life-like, body, musculature still interpreted in terms of geometric shapes. 700-480 b. c. e. : anatomy, musculature, movement of body in space, striding forward funerary monument to kroisos.
