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Set Design at Delphi Understanding Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Art.

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1 Set Design at Delphi Understanding Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Art

2 Utilize elements of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic in your set design

3 Archaic 600 BCE- 480 BCE Arts developed rapidly during this period. In architecture stone and marble replaced the earlier mud brick and wood construction.

4 Archaic Doric and Ionic Orders developed during this period. Kore and Kouros sculptures Anatomy of sculpture uses ridges and grooves to form geometric patterns.

5 Archaic Archaic smile, arms usually rigidly placed at the sculptures sides One leg of sculptures is slightly in front of the other.

6 Classical Period This period is framed by two major events: The defeat of the Persians in 479 BCE and the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE.

7 Classical Period 479 BCE- 322 BCE Ideal and the General Aloof expressions on sculptures

8 Classical Period Humanism Rationalism Idealism

9 Classical Period Adages carved into the Temple of Apollo such as: “Man is the measure of all things” “Know thyself” “Nothing in excess”

10 Classical Period Humanism: imagined their gods looked like perfect human beings Apollo for example is the exemplified Greek ideal: body and mind in balance

11 Classical Period Rationalism: Greeks at this time valued reason over emotion. The Greeks saw aspects of life including the arts as having meaning and pattern. Cannon of proportions

12 Idealism The True The Good The Beautiful

13 Hellenistic Period 323 BCE- 30 BCE Individual and Specific Turns from subject matter of heroic to the everyday.

14 Hellenistic Period Sculptures begin to show human emotion. Appeals to the senses with dramatic poses and subjects Architecture begins to reflect taste for high drama.

15 Resources/Contributions: Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History: Second Edition Volume One. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 2002.


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