Greece clothes analysis by using 3 principles of design
Greece is the period that people start to
build civilization. They starting to have various monuments and statues,
housing for priests and visitors, literary competitions, stadium for athletic
events, this prototypes of Olympic games today were held, even outdoor dance
floor. Artist in this period develop focused and distinctive ideals of human
beauty. It’s the period that art develop very fast too. Fashion and trend
that’s one kind of art changed and improve over course over a few centuries.
This essay we will see what makes Greek clothing different from other period.
This essay will analyze Greek clothing by using 3 principles of design, which
are material, contrast, and pattern.
Firstly is
material, clothing in that period designed to be wrapped and draped leaving the
right arm free. According to the sculpture of Greek their cloth has waver
movement, silk and cotton are exist, but silk and cotton only wealthy people
that can afford. Others usually use wool. Also linen is available. About dying
color, people in that period most of their cloth were not dyed. But dye color
is still from natural color like other period for example, Egypt of
Mesopotamian.
Second is contrast, most of people wear tunic as the basic garment (a loose garment, typically sleeveless and reaching to the wearer's knees, as worn in ancient Greece), It could also be an under garment. For woman Greek woman wear peplos which is the square of cloth with top third folded over and pinned at the shoulders. And as mentioned before, the material tells the wealthiness of people. Wealthy people usually wear cotton and silk, others will wear wool or linen.
Third is pattern. Greek pattern is geometric and
abstract pattern. Eventhogh pattern
mostly come from the waviness
of cloth, but in terms of little details they usually add a little bit of
geometric designs using colored thread.
In conclution, Greek cloth has develope a
lot from the period before, their cloth show
more of the human figure and the
material are develope too.
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