Greece

Time Periods:

Dark Ages = 1200-800 BC

 * We don't know what happened.

Geometric and Orientalizing = 900-600 BC

 * People started painting things
 * Prothesis
 * Layering the funerals/dead/wakes
 * Composite perspective
 * Triangle chest and wasp waist on humans
 * Return of the human figure
 * Story-tellers tell human events
 * Just beginning to explore anatomy
 * Enjoyment of order and clarity
 * Astounding attention to detail
 * Anthropocentric
 * Centered and balanced compositions
 * Uses tons of friezes and registers
 * Huge cultural exchange between Greece mercenaries and the Egyptians

Archaic - 600-480 BC

 * Period of the Kouroi
 * Statues become progressively natural as time wears on
 * Very stylized
 * Focused on memory
 * Archaic smiles to represent the subject as alive
 * Nothing individualistic
 * Attention to anatomy
 * Large scale
 * Use of columns in architecture

Early Classical = 480-400 BC

 * Also called the severe style and the High Classical
 * Stark poses and severe emotions
 * Resting bitch faces
 * Athens becomes the superpower in Greece
 * 7 heads per body length

Late Classical = 400-323

 * Athens is the cultural center of the world; wealthy, but not a superpower
 * Change in sculptures to slower movements and elegance and grace
 * Genre scenes come about
 * 8 heads per body length
 * Alexander the Great dies 323

Hellenistic = 323 BC-30 AD

 * Alexander the Great dies 323
 * Athens becomes a memory
 * Women are now considered beautiful
 * Eroticised
 * People are not mathematical beings
 * Advent of emotions and the taboo
 * Architecture: Great scale, dramatic surprise, intentional rejection of past canon\