Greek Art - The Geometric Period, Classical Period, and Hellenistic Period :: Greek Art

Greek Art - The geometrical Period, Classical Period, and Hellenic Period Over a period of time Greek dodge of the past has changed and evolved into what we value in todays society as true ruse and services as a blue sucker of our tomorrow. As we take a closer look at the Geometric Period and stroll up through the Hellenistic Period digest me to demonstrate the changes and point out how these transitions have served the elements of time.During the geometric period the Greeks manner of vase painting was know as Proto-geometric because it was preceded and anticipated the Geometric style - was characterized by linear motifs, such as spirals, diamonds, and crosshatching, rather than the stylized plants, birds, and sea creatures character of minoan vase painting.Artist of the geometric time period created decative funerary art to be placed at the tombs of there dead. These typographys were made of ceramic and created in the form of geometric shapes, hence the time period. One such piece is a vase from the Dipylon Cemetery, (750 BCE) its over- wholly shape is like that of a hemisphere support by a cylinder. We also nonice that the vase is divided into registers and here the man are depicted as part of a narrative. The body of the decedent is placed on its side and set on what would appear to be a pedestal in the center of the top register. The form utilise to represent the human figures are somewhat abstract. For example triangles are use for the torsos, the head is a triangle in profile, round dots would stand in for the eyes and long thin rectangles would serve as arms. The figures have precise waists, and long legs with bulging thigh and calf muscles. The abstract designs were painted with a clay slip and to still a page form the Egyptians, all the humans were shown as full-frontal or full-profile views that emphasize flat patterns and outline shapes. yet unlike the Egyptian funerary art the Greeks focused on the survivors, not the fate of the dead. During this period it was customary to create vases that did not contain weird beings, nor made reference to the afterlife that might have provided solace for the bereaved. some other early piece that surfaced back in the late tenth light speed was the Centaur, half-human, half-horse.