1. Time to present your sculptures!
Give me the name and date of the sculpture you wrote about, then you have up to 60 seconds to tell me about your chosen sculpture, what you like about it and how you think it works.

2. Colour
Colour is an essential component of an art work. It can be deliberately left out (monochromatic) or used in a variety of ways, all of which are deliberate and used to create a particular effect, emphasis or meaning. As we look at the following pictures, try to think about HOW colour has been used and (if you’re feeling bold) WHY…

3. How is colour used in this painting?
Use your Formal Analysis sheet to help…
Colour can be…
Naturalistic or as it is seen…
Pieter de Hooch, At the Linen Closet (1663), oil on canvas, 75.5 x 70 cm. Collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

4. How is colour used in this painting?
Use your Formal Analysis sheet to help…
Colour can be…
Symbolic, where it is established as a convention – white being ‘pure’.
Paul Delaroche, The Lady Jane Grey, Oil on Canvas.

5. How is colour used in this painting?
Use your Formal Analysis sheet to help…
Colour can be…
Symbolic, but concieved by the artist (not part of an established convention). See if you can create a narrative or meaning from what you can see…
Franz Marc, Fighting Forms, 1914 Canvas 35 ¾ x 51 ¾ ins

6. Masaccio, Tribute Money c. 1427, Frecso, 8ft 4ins x 19ft 8ins
How is colour used in this painting?
Use your Formal Analysis sheet to help…
Colour can be…
Warm or cool to create a sense of spatial depth (compare the background with the foreground.
Masaccio, Tribute Money c. 1427, Frecso, 8ft 4ins x 19ft 8ins

7. How is colour used in this painting?
Use your Formal Analysis sheet to help…
Here is a much later example. A very different painting but using the same technique. The sense of depth is partly created using colour.
Edvard Munch, The Scream, Oil, pastel and casein on cardboard, 35 ¼ x 29 ins

8. How is colour used in this painting?
Use your Formal Analysis sheet to help…
Colour can be…
Emotional. Colour has an effect on the way we feel, so here, warm light colours are used to create sense of joy.
Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, Canvas, 5ft 8 ¼ ins x 7ft 10ins

9. How is colour used in this painting?
Use your Formal Analysis sheet to help…
Colour can be…
Decorative. The mixture of colours in a pattern around the edge of the quilt forms a decorative border to the central scene of the work.
Faith Ringgold, Bitter Nest Part II: Harlem Renaissance Party, Acrylic on canvas, printed tie-dyed and pieced fabrics. 7ft 10ins x 6ft 10 ins.

10. Greek and Roman Quiz Time!
1, What were the 4 periods of Ancient Greece we studied?
2, Which empire did the Greeks eventually defeat, and roughly when?
3, What was the name of the war between Athens and Sparta? Who won?
4, Who came to power after the Spartans went into decline?
5, Roughly when was the Roman Republic?
6, What did Pericles build in Athens during the classical period?
7, Name some cultural achievements of the Hellenistic period…
8, What did the Roman Empire get many of their early ideas from?

11. Greek and Roman Sculpture:
Greek and Roman Sculpture is some of the most famous and influential in the world. Not only was it revered in its own time, but it was copied and emulated by some of the most famous artists of the Renaissance.
In order to understand how Greek and Roman Sculpture came about and evolved over time, we are going to tackle separate periods of sculpture within the framework that we have learned about from our reading.
We will tackle each heading in turn, stopping to clarify any words we don’t understand (annotate these onto the sheets), ask any questions we need to, and then discuss the character of each period and any major changes that took place.

12. Walk Like an Egyptian: Early Greek Art
Words we don’t get?
(Annotate any definitions onto the sheet)
Questions?
(Annotate any answers onto the sheet)
Discussion points (feel free to add more):
What changes does Akhenaten bring about and why are they significant?
Where does Greek sculpture seem to come from?
What means are suggested for how this happens?

13. The Geometric Period (Dark Ages) and the Archaic Period
Words we don’t get?
(Annotate any definitions onto the sheet)
Questions?
(Annotate any answers onto the sheet)
Discussion points (feel free to add more):
Why do we know so little about the Geometric Period?
How similar do you think the Geometric period is from the Archaic? Why do you think this might be?
What do think the process of making a Kouros or Kouroi might be? Is there a ‘subject’ or ‘sitter’ which the sculptor is modelling?
What system do you need to make such similar statues all over the Greek world, and is it observed or idealised?

14. e.g. Polyclitus, Lysippos, Scopas, and Praxiteles
The Classical Period
Words we don’t get?
(Annotate any definitions onto the sheet)
Questions?
(Annotate any answers onto the sheet)
Discussion points (feel free to add more):
What was the real revolution in Greek sculpture at the beginning of the Classical period?
Why do you think that once ‘realistic’ human proportion was found, that it was then made disproportionate, or anatomically incorrect, later on?
Why do you think that it is only in the classical period that we discover the names of some of the sculptors making statuary?
e.g. Polyclitus, Lysippos, Scopas, and Praxiteles

15. High Classical Greek Art
Words we don’t get?
(Annotate any definitions onto the sheet)
Questions?
(Annotate any answers onto the sheet)
Discussion points (feel free to add more):
What do you think were the driving forces of all the change in the High Classical Period?
Why did such imposing art works appear at this time and not before?
What do you think was the biggest change during this period and why?
What does the High Classical Period tell you about the value and purposes of art to the Greeks?

16. Hellenistic Period Words we don’t get?
(Annotate any definitions onto the sheet)
Questions?
(Annotate any answers onto the sheet)
Discussion points (feel free to add more):
Which development in Hellenistic art separates it most from what had preceded it? Emotion? Background? Individualism? Female eroticism? Multiple viewpoints? Discuss…
What political forces might lead to greater individualism in Greek art at this time? Why? How is the Hellenistic period different from earlier periods of Greek art politically?

17. Roman Portraits Words we don’t get?
(Annotate any definitions onto the sheet)
Questions?
(Annotate any answers onto the sheet)
Discussion points (feel free to add more):
Why is there an emphasis on the real in Roman portrait busts in the republic?
Why does this go into decline? What political forces influence this?
What functions did statuary have in Roman times and can you think of any more recent examples where this has been emulated?

18. Artemision Bronze 470-440 BCE Aphrodite of Knidos 4th century BC.
Helmet-maker c. 700 BC.
Kouros from Tenea c. 570 BC
Kritios Boy c. 480 BC
Artemision Bronze BCE
Aphrodite of Knidos 4th century BC.
Winged Victory of Samothrace
c BC.
 Laocoon c. 27 BC-68 AD
Portrait bust of a man,
1st century BC
Augustus of Prima Porta 1st Century AD