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The roots of Classical Greece lie in the Geometric period of about ca. 900 to 700 B.C., a time of dramatic transformation that led to the establishment of primary Greek institutions.
Geometric art is a phase of Greek art, characterized largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages and a little later, c. 1050–700 BC. Its center was in Athens, and from there the style spread among the trading cities of the Aegean. [1]
Geometric style, style of ancient Greek art, primarily of vase painting, that began about 900 bc and represents the last purely Mycenaean-Greek art form that originated before the influx of foreign inspiration by about 800 bc. Athens was its centre, and the growing moneyed population of new Greek.
The migration of populations across the Eastern Mediterranean and the contacts with the peoples of the East brought about upheaval and instigated a new period of social, economic and artistic changes in Greece that was conventionally called Geometric (1050-700 BC).
The Geometric Period in Greek art is distinguished by a reliance on geometric shapes to create human and animal figures as well as abstract décor. In the eleventh century BCE, the citadel centers of the Mycenaeans were abandoned and Greece fell into a period with little cultural or social progression.
The Geometric period marked the end of Greece’s Dark Age and lasted from 900 to 700 BCE. The Geometric period derives its name from the dominance of geometric motifs in vase painting. Monumental kraters and amphorae were made and decorated as grave markers.
The Geometric art spans the period from the late 11th to the 8th century BC and is characterized by exquisite examples of bronze metalwork. Art was influenced to a large extent by the Homeric Epics.
