1. Greek Art Warm Up
Last week we looked at Egyptian sculpture. Today we will begin to look at Greek sculpture. What differences do you see in Egyptian and Greek sculpture?

2. Greek Art and Culture

3. Greek Art and Culture
Concerned with creating the perfect individual (idealization)
Balance between the intellectual and physical (beauty and harmony)
Greeks encouraged all forms of art
Broken into three periods
-Archaic BCE
-Classic BCE
-Hellenistic BCE

4. Humanism Man is nature’s greatest creation Man is godlike
Man is center of the universe
Human form was focal point of art

5. Greek Sculpture Pre-Archaic-Rigid, did not represent real people
Archaic-Less natural and realistic,
more idealized, from observation
Classic- Arts flourished after war-
worked in bronze-very natural-still a
bit rigid and severe
Hellenistic- Began after a war
disrupted Classical Greece-more
concerned with action and emotion

9. The Kritios Boy
480 BCE Marble 3’10” Late Archaic/Early Classic Period Acropolis Museum, Athens
-Amazing because he actually stands-not held by a block
-Arms are free, not bound by part of the original stone
-Weight rest mainly on the left leg- relaxed stance
-contrapposto- Technique of sculpting the human figure in a pose that puts the weight of the body in balance. Weight is on one leg with shoulders and hips in counterbalance of each other naturally so that the figure does not fall over.
-Shows that artist understood that different body parts work as a system
-Brings the sculpture to life

13. Warm Up-Begin the Greek sculpture timeline on the back of your notes sheet
Archaic Classic Hellenistic
Stiff, Rigid, very
idealized, unnatural,
smaller than life
size, made out of
stone

15. Charioteer of Delphi 470 BCE Bronze Classic Period 71”
Archaeological Museum, Delphi Found 1896
-originally stood on chariot drawn by four horses
- The sculpture depicts the driver of the chariot race at the moment when he presents his chariot and horses to the spectators in recognition of his victory.
- meant to honor Apollo
-bronze cast in section and then put together
-inclined slightly to one side
-left arm missing
-inlaid glass in the eyes with copper and silver accents around the eyes and head

16. Nike of Samothrace
190 BCE Hellenistic Period Marble ’ The Louvre, Paris
forward movement
Right arm was forward but they were never recovered
notable for its naturalistic pose and for the rendering of the figure's draped garments
Fun Fact- The Rolls Royce radiator figurine, Spirit of Ecstasy,
is based on the Nike
Probably celebrating a naval victory
Probably stood on the prow of a ship overlooking the Sanctuary of the Great Gods