Art: Ancient Greek Achievements

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  1. ancient Greek achievement number three.
  2. Okay, let's talk about art.
  3. So the grapes here and their art amazing, realistic detail.
  4. I don't know if you can remember back to when
  5. you look at, like, the Egyptians and and such.
  6. Um, but they were kind of, you know, they didn't
  7. have the must schools all defined up in there.
  8. Um, they were general.
  9. Generally, when you looked at Egyptian art, there were statues
  10. straight up and down, and they kind of look like
  11. they broke their neck.
  12. I know this guy's contorted, but if you are a
  13. discus thrower, this might be a natural.
  14. While I guess if you were good discussed or this
  15. might be a natural position for you So, um, Greek
  16. art, when you're looking at Greek, could expect to see
  17. a lot of details.
  18. I say realistic.
  19. But it's like, realistic for like, the most perfectly shaped
  20. in shape person.
  21. Um, they like to have their Olympic athletes, but get
  22. sculptures and things made out of them.
  23. So, of course, they're gonna look like the perfect specimens
  24. of people things that you would see on the front
  25. of health magazines.
  26. They would make these statues out of stone and marble,
  27. um, Bronze even.
  28. And even the bronze statues had a lot of detail,
  29. which is saying something.
  30. And there's a method that they used to do that
  31. we can't talk about art without looking at some of
  32. the painted pottery pieces.
  33. E mean, they would usually be black and red, a
  34. red and black.
  35. You got two options there, and you would see life
  36. scenes painted on them.
  37. So these were actually really great primary source finding these
  38. pots, they would tell stories on there really artistically, uh,
  39. detailed. Okay, now, if you recall, I did say that
  40. there was a lot of detail when it came to
  41. the bronze sculptures, and that is because the Greeks developed
  42. this method off casting.
  43. It was called lost wax casting method.
  44. It is really complicated, um, to kind of explain, don't
  45. do to show you this picture here.
  46. And I will post another video if you're interested in
  47. that kind of stuff, because, hey, I am, you know,
  48. how did they get detailed like, I mean, they kind
  49. of show that bear in the corner, But that's just
  50. because that's the presentation thing I used.
  51. But when you look at that bear, you see, like
  52. the details of the for.
  53. That's the kind of stuff the Greeks would dio, and
  54. they would use this method of like, um in a
  55. you can see, they would make a shape, and then
  56. they would put this plaster around the shape, and then
  57. they would insee They kind of had thes mold where,
  58. like if you have ever used Plato before and then
  59. you pushed the Plato into, like a mold and you
  60. peeled it away, it would be the shape of that
  61. thing. Um, this is obviously amped up.
  62. So they had those molds and they would pour this
  63. wax in there, and then they would clunk off all
  64. the DNI.
  65. What you're seeing is the wax is hardening, and then
  66. they would clunk off theory journal molding, and they would
  67. be left with F, which is, um, wax like this
  68. wax figurine.
  69. Mrs. Haines, by is the wax figurine cut in half
  70. because this would be maybe a larger statue that later
  71. than would be assembled and melted together after the individual
  72. parts were made.
  73. Um, you put some special stuff around that, and then
  74. you put it in the fire.
  75. And then what happens is it melts and then you
  76. could. The last scene is you can then click away
  77. some of the little piping that they have in there,
  78. so that stuff doesn't crack and you are left with
  79. a bronze statue that is incredibly detailed, just like if
  80. it was carved out of marble and stone, which totally
  81. my mind, um, that anybody could get that detail out
  82. of either marble or stone and especially out of metal.
  83. So this type of sculpting the details, the Greeks are
  84. the standard.
  85. They set the standards.
  86. I say they're the original greats because they set the
  87. standard for art.
  88. So this is a a Greek statue carved out of
  89. marble. You can see the flow and the hair and
  90. the details, and I know the eyes always look like
  91. they're possessed.
  92. But the details and, um, belief business around here and
  93. the Romans that eventually conquer the Greeks Is there going
  94. to model their statues after them and including some of
  95. the bronze statues that are going to come centuries later
  96. in the Renaissance, they're going to model the lost cast
  97. method lost wax casting method.
  98. They're gonna model that.
  99. And even today, when we go to make very detailed,
  100. um, metal statues or stone statues, Were you saying some
  101. of their same techniques?
  102. And we're modeling after the original greats.
  103. Okay, you can go to art exhibits and see replicas
  104. of or what's left off the's great works of art
  105. a lot of times so they don't have their arms.
  106. The stones don't have their arms over their heads, But
  107. you could imagine that's probably because of weather.
  108. So anyway, there you go.
  109. Greek achievement number three, there aren't.