THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTURE AND COROPLASTIC ART
Project no. 193 · Status: Kapanmış · 2017
Summary
Since the very early period, the field of art which human can best be depicted in a real-like manner is the plastic art. In this field of art, stone sculptures and terracotta figurines have a special importance. The earliest three dimensional representations in the geographical area of Ancient Aegean were the clay figurines. Within the middle of the 7th century BC, in parallel with the progress of the knowledge in art and the sense of aesthetics, sculptors started to use marble and limestone in order to create live-size human figures. From then on, till to the end of ancient times, monumental scultures were one of the most strong image in terms of religion and social life. Terracotta figurines share the same chronology with monumental sculptures. However, there are some diffrences between two field of art functionally, socially and semantically. In spite of the difference in tecnique and function, tipological characteristics reveal the interraciton between these two fields. For understanding the characteristics of this interaction clearly, it is esential to examine the periodic progress of the figurine and statues.