Greek Art!

Greek art sets a benchmark for Western civilization endure to this day. The ancient Greek models are regarded as classics and canons sculptural and architectural styles have been recreated over and over again throughout the history of the West. To speak of Greek painting is necessary to refer to ceramics, since precisely in decorating vases, plates and bowls, whose marketing was a very productive business in ancient Greece, where he was able to develop this art.

Early designs were elementary geometric forms-hence the name of the geometric receive this first period (ninth and eighth centuries BC.) - That just stood out above the surface.

 SCULPTURES:

The first Greek sculptures were taking place in the ninth century BC. Firstly sculptures were small human figures made ​​very malleable materials such as clay, ivory or wax. It was not until the Archaic period on the seventh and sixth centuries BC. There was where Greeks began to work the stone. The most common of the early works were simple statues of boys named kouros and girls who were Kores. Smooth, rounded shapes, these figures in stone plasmaban a beauty ideal.

These figures bore a strong resemblance to the Egyptian sculptures that served as a model. With the arrival of classicism V and IV centuries BC., Greek statuary was taking a character and finally abandoned the primitive oriental patterns. By studying the ratios could copy faithfully the human anatomy and faces definitely gained in expressiveness and realism.

Greek painting:

The last major school of Greek pottery painting was red-figure, in which the black-figure technique was reversed: orange silhouettes were formed by painting around them in black, allowing interior details to be painted rather than incised. This gave the artist much more control in drawing smooth curves or varying the thickness of lines when adding details. It also allowed for gradients of colour, since the black paint could be diluted to acquire shades of brown.