(Hellenistic Greek Art [continued (9))[– The End of Classical Art][28th January 1991]

[Redbook8:204][19910128:1247i](Hellenistic Greek Art [continued (9))[– The End of Classical Art][28th January 1991]

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‘The convenient date for the “end of **Classical art” is the accession of Alexander of Macedon in 336BC[E],*** but art did not actually come to an end then, as the ancients liked to think. Rather, it had reached that point of complete technical confidence **** which opened the way for the experiments in human proportion of sculptors like Lysippos, and the corresponding Baroque# fancies of Hellenistic#* sculpture and architecture. With the decline of the city-state, the individual became more important,#** as is reflected in the rise of real portraiture#*** and the corollary, grotesques and caricatures,#**** in a more “humanised” artistic context. In painting this is shown in the decline of vase painting in the face of free painting which could render emotion## and characterisation, and on the other hand of the silver and gold vases,##* and jewelry [sic], demanded by the ostentatious and wealthy, which the potters could only imitate on a more humble level in plain black-glazed wares. Typically, Greek art was ready to adapt and use the new concepts brought by Alexander’s conquests.’

– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt]1:148

*(ref [[Redbook8:44-67][19901027ff]{Comparative Chronology}[27th October 1990],] 58)

**(c500-c330BCE)

c[irca]2048G~-R~

***2048R~256BCE

****cf IX: [[Redbook9:204-206][19910429:0914]{Italian Mannerism}[{29th} April 1991],] 204-205?

#(ref IX: [[Redbook9:304-316][19910510:0904]{Baroque Architecture}[10th May 1991],] 304)

cf Baroque c1600-1715CE

(2048R~1792)<910513>

J~???ff

#*c[irca]2048R~-C

(c[irca]330-c[irca]0BCE

#**R~-C

#***R~-C

#****A~-J~ff??

or ‘casting out of devils’ at c[irca]R~?

##G~-R~

##*s~,r~?

cf X. [] 5 re Winckelmann on ‘idealisation’ of Greek art.

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