REGION
(make title prominent and bold)
Cultural Background (What are the artistic achievements of your group? What are they known
for in art? How is this piece of art representative of your group?)
“Title” of the piece, date
(prominent and bold)
Art Style:
Description:
Picture of selected artwork (copied here)
Timeline: (use www.metmuseum.org to copy timeline here)
GREECE
MS. AUSTIN
6/1/09
Most of what we know about Greek art comes from the pictures they painted on their pottery. The
Archaic period is identified by influences from foreign trading partners and naturalistic representations of
the human figure. Athenian vases of the second half of the sixth century B.C. provide a wealth of images
that exhibit numerous aspects of Greek culture, including funerary rites, daily life, athletics, warfare,
religion, and mythology.
“Dionysus in a Sailboat,” c. 550-521 BCE
Archaic Art (600-480 BCE)
Description:
The piece featured here is a black-figured
kylix (drinking cup) from the Archaic
Period. In black-figured vase painting the
black forms stood out against a reddish clay
background. This scene may be the earliest
instance in which an object (the sail) was
presented realistically rather than in some
stylized manner. You can see the wind
pushing the sail.
Timeline: Ancient Greece 1000 BCE – 1 BCE