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Prehistoric, Egypt & Greek Art. 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.
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Sculpture • The oldest surviving art objects are sculptures made from bone, ivory, stone or antlers. • They are engraved, carved in relief or three-dimensional
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
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
Egypt • Paintings • Rigid figures often with one leg advanced • Size indicated rank
Greece • Greek artists achieves a breakthrough in realistic trompel’oeil effects. • Their paintings were so lifelike that birds would peck at the murals of painted fruit.
Greece • Vase Painting • Earliest style was red clay with black forms • Later style was a black base with a red form
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
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
Greece- Architecture • Column Types: • Doric: less embellished • Ionic: scroll-work top • Corinthian: stylized leaves on top
