1. Grecian Sculpture in Context What is Beauty
Grecian Sculpture in Context What is Beauty? What about the portrayal of beauty and the human form in Grecian art is a reflection of Grecian culture and thinking?

2. Homework Read the spark notes on Plato’s The Symposium
What are the types of love presented in The Symposium?
What link(s) can you make between the types of love that are discussed in The Symposium, the Greeks’ idea of beauty, and the subject matter, visual qualities and ideas behind Classical Greek Sculpture?

3. 1. LETS IDENTIFY THE TYPES OF LOVE PRESENTED IN THE SYMPOSIUM
2. WHAT TYPE OF LOVE DO YOU THINK PLATO HOLDS IN THE HIGHEST REGARD? Why?
3. PLATO THINKS OF BEAUTY AS THE GREATEST GOOD. If the “The greatest knowledge of all is knowledge of beauty, which we must strive to obtain,” which type of love will lead is us to this beauty? Why?
Plato rejects the romanticization of sexual love
He values above all a passion for wisdom and beauty (the good)
In what ways does the visual characteristics of Classical sculpture reject the romanticization of sexual love and perhaps reflect Plato’s concept of love

4. and perhaps reflect this Plato’s concept of love?
In what ways does the visual characteristics of Classical sculpture reject the romanticization of sexual love
and perhaps reflect this Plato’s concept of love?
Rational
Idealized
Canon of proportion =“Perfect”
Detached
Self Contained
Unemotional
Balanced
Unified, Ordered and Calm

5. THE CAVE Platos’ desire and pursuit of wisdom and beauty

6. Why does Plato warn us against the shadows?
If Plato presents the shadows, or images, as a false and misleading reality would he think the same way about art?