Survey of Western Art

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The discovery of the power of the human story

Part 2

For Friday, October 5 assignment – Groups 17, 18, 19, and 20

First Essay examination opens Friday, October 5 at 1 pm and closes on Friday, October 12 at noon.

Finished forms of the masculine human body – a body encoded with meaning

Metopes – Lapiths and Centaurs

Frieze-Cavalcade of Athenian citizen riders

Source for the human form, exploration of the male body, the creation of the ideal man possessing arête earned through successful competition - agon

New York Kouros, 600 BCE Anavysos Kouros, 530 BCE

Cleobis and Biton, 550 BCE

Discovery of the power of the temporal – contrapposto and the momentary, the human side of the ideal

Athens, Kritios Boy, 480 BCE

Riace Warrior, 450 BCE

Stories – stories of mortals. The discovery of the visual power of the narrative – black figure artists.

Athens, Dipylon Vase, 750 BCE

Athens, Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing dice, Black Figure Vase, 540 BCE

Red figure transformation and the setting of the symposium – making the story immediate.

Euphronios, Death of Sarpedon, Red Figure Vase, 515 BCE, obverse

Euphronios, Arming the Youth, Red Figure Vase, 515 BCE, reverse

Parthenon, the convergence of the parts – Iktinos, Kallikrates, Phidias, and Perikles – mid- 5th C. BCE Athens

Athens, Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon, 447 BCE

Parthenon restored and colored

Metope – Lapith and Centaur

Metope – Lapith and centaurs

Sophocles, Antigone, Choral ode – Numerous are the world’s wonders but none more wondrous than man. The human struggle

Phidias and Perikles - Pediments – gods and Athenians

East and West pediments. East (top) – birth of Athena, West – Contest between Athena and Poseidon

East pediment colored – the focus of the temple, Birth of Athena.

Parthenon – frieze. When humans become like gods. The value of the citizen, male and female, to the survival of the democratic polis.

Cavalcade

Presentation of the peplos