Artists+Notes

= History: Greek Artists  =


 * The art of ancient greek included detailed jewelry, sculptures, pottery, and metalwork by using gold, silver, stone, glass, leather, wood, bone, ivory, and horn


 * Skilled craftsman produced vases, necklaces, shields and swords


 * The concept of “humanism” or that “man is the center of all things” were important part of Greek thought


 * Ancient Greek Sculpture got advanced from time to time by making different types of sculptures


 * Sculptures were made with different materials and the sculptures they make rarely had any emotional expression


 * Phi equates a building proportion of 1.6 to 1, in the case there is a 16 foot long building the “Golden Proportion would in theory make the width 10 feet. Resulting in a “Proportionally Appealing Building”


 * Greek Painting **
 * done on murals or pottery (important)


 * Frescos


 * Four color palette

- Specific forms and Proportions (???)
 * Greek Architecture **
 * Please the gods
 * Number Phi- 1.618033988749895.... it goes on.....
 * Concept Golden Section- Golden Ratio, Golden Mean, Divine Proportion
 * In the Hellenistic period, Ancient Greeks started sculpturing the physical appearance of the human body to show their feelings.

**Painted Pottery**
 * Has two basic forms - black & red figure
 * Painters are known widely by their skills

**Black Figure Pottery**
 * Sketched shapes of people, gods, and mythical creatures on the surface of the vase
 * Vases - made from red clay & painted with black gaze
 * Black carved figures stood out on the reddish-orange color

**Red Figure Pottery**
 * Artists drew outlines of figures in black
 * Red figures are shown easily on the dark background