IRL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cycladic Art, Archaic Smile, Geometric Art
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In their body movements, tensity , foot positioning you can see who is winning and who is losing. Cycladic, minoan and mycenaean cultures disappear by 1100 bc. Greek culture spreads vigorously influences italy, roman empire, and. Along with art, there is also a collection of narrative writings or poetry. Very flat and simple, the pubic region is geometric. Compared to venus of willendorf, she looks more like an athlete than a fertile. The male figures are tubular and always playing musical instruments. Proportions are very narrow with zig-zag compositions: like an accordion, in and out, back and forth. Called minoan because greece has a myth of the minotaur. Crete palace of knossos but there are no royal graves. All the dark bits are the original pieces of the fresco, the other parts are reconstructed. White figures are the white, and the dark figures are the male figures.