Greek art Feb. 1st 2022 HV1Y

• art
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today

• quiz: Greek temples and Greek sculpture

• video: learn about Greek vases

• fill in: (first part of) the Glossary

success criteria 

• You can name characteristics of Greek temples.
  
• You can name characteristics of Greek sculpture.

QUIZ

Columns 

The Greeks supported the roofs of temples with columns

Columns could have three kinds of capitals (decorations):

Doric column

Simple with straight lines

D

Ionic column

Two curling decorations

I

Corinthian column

With elegant, curled leaves.

C

D

I

C

Column

DRAG & DROP

Fronton

Architrave

Frieze

Capital

What is the name of this column?

1. Doric column
2. Ionic column
3. Corinthian column

What is the name of this column?

1. Doric column
2. Ionic column
3. Corinthian column

What is the name of this column?

1. Doric column
2. Ionic column
3. Corinthian column

true or false?

A. Greek temples had a gable roof
B. The columns were made of marble

1. A is true, B is false
2. A is false, B is true
3. A and B are true
4. A and B are false

Greek statues

• Greeks took their sculptural art from the Egyptians
  
• Egyptian statues looked very stiff 
• But Greeks wanted to make statues look "real"
• A technique to make images look real was contrapposto

Example

An Egyptian statue (left) and a Greek statue (right)

Example

A discus thrower. You can see the movement of the throw

Perfection

• The statues looked like humans, but were supposed to       represent gods
  
• therefore the body had to be perfect:
• attractive, muscular and brightly coloured

Example

Egyptian sculpture

Archaic Greek sculpture

How did Greek statues differ from Egyptian statues?

1. They were bigger
2. They were of different material
3. There was more "movement" in the images
4. They depicted mostly gods rather than ordinary people

Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot.

Which part of your body is NOT affected by this body posture?

1. Neck
2. Knees
3. Hips
4. Shoulders

• quiz:                                         ???                
  

• next: 
  Greek vases

geometric period

GLOSSARY 

(in Classroom)

Name one important thing you learned in class today.

What is one thing you would like me to explain more clearly?

What is one thing you would like us to review again in the next lesson?

If you were going to make up a test question based on today's lesson, what would it be?
What's the answer?

A. __________kept the temple upright.

B. __________, band of sculpture along the temple. Used to show stories and  honour the gods.

C. ___________, the triangular at the  

top of the temple.

D. ___________ with  steps so that people could get up on the plateau.

 First: drag the four words (left) to their correct place in the text (right).

The green boxes with letters A, B, C, D represent the text lines A, B, C, D in the yellow box.

Second: drag the green boxes to the correct Roman numerals I, II, III, IV. 

A

B

C

D

Frieze

Pillars

Plateau

Tympanum

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