ARTH 22006 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Orientalizing Period, Exekias, Geometric Art
3 Aug 2016
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Amphora- made by exekias jar with painting of the trojan war (achilles and ajax) 900-100bce- develop stylized style change and improve existing conventions. Ninth-eigth century bce- develop independent city states. Historical background: autonomous region with a city as its political, cultural, economic, and religious center, individual government and economy, all manage their own domestic/foreign affairs. Visualize gods in human for with weakness and emotion. Sanctuaries- sacred enclosure used for worship: altars, monuments, housing for priests and visitors, dancefloor, theater, stadium. Eleventh century bce- athens becomes center of ceramic production: sculpture and vessels with organized abstract designs. 700 bce- orientalizing period- incorporate exotic motifs into native art. Wood ivory clay and cast bronze figurines. Man and centaur- man possibly herakles stabbed centaur. Seventh century painters move from geometrics to compositions built around large motifs: animals abstract plants human figures traced to art of near east.
