Sculpture The oldest surviving art objects are sculptures made from bone, ivory, stone or antlers. They are engraved, carved in relief or three-dimensional
Venus of Willendorf
Easter Island Monoliths
The Dying Lioness
Cave Painting Most commonly images of bison, deer, horses, cattle and boars that are pierced with arrows Located in far recesses of caves, away from the sunlit entrances
Cave Painting at Lascaux, France
Egypt Sculpture and paintings followed a rigid formula for representing the human figure
Egypt Sculpture: Standing or seated with few projecting breakable parts Pose is always frontal & bisymmetrical with arms close to the torso
Egyptian Carving
Egyptian Carving (notice the size)
Egyptian Statues
Menkeur Triad
Egypt Paintings Rigid figures often with one leg advanced Size indicated rank
Tomb of Rameses
Book of the Dead
Greece Greek artists achieves a breakthrough in realistic trompe l’oeil effects. Their paintings were so lifelike that birds would peck at the murals of painted fruit.
Still Life with Glass Bowl of Fruit and Vase
Greece Vase Painting Earliest style was red clay with black forms Later style was a black base with a red form
Dionysus in a Sailboat
Dionysus in a Sailboat- Detail
Medias Name Vase
Medias Name Vase-Detail
Hercules Attacking a Centaur
Greece- Sculpture Contrapposto The weight of the body rested on one leg with rest of the body realigned accordingly Illusion of the figure in arrested motion
Contrapposto
Doryphoros by Polyskeitos
Discus Thrower
Aphrodite of Knidos
Greece- Architecture Greek Temples became the standard for much of our modern architecture Think of all the banks, museums and buildings that look like Greek temples
Parthenon
Temple of Poseidon
Greece- Architecture Column Types: Doric: less embellished Ionic: scroll-work top Corinthian: stylized leaves on top
Greek Column Types