Today in History- January 1.
On January 1, 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln to free all Confederate slaves. Find out more here.
The Kritios boy and Kroisos
Art is used as a way to express human’s creativity. Ancient Greece art paved the way for the Classical, Archaic and Hellenistic art. Art is very important to the Greeks, Greece have been making art from the earliest time until now. The Archaic period was at time between 700-400 BCE where abundant of Kouros (youth) sculpture were made. They were used as grave markings or sometimes representation of a god. These sculpture were mostly stick figures with no movement made of bronze. After the archaic period, it was the classical period. Classical art represents the perfection of the human body. Many art sculpture represent at transitional art with features that are unique to two different time periods. The Kritios boy is from the late archaic and early classical. It is a standing sculpture of a nude man at 2’10’’ tall from 480 BCE. This represent a transition from the archaic to classical period. You can see that the artist understand the musculature of the boy. Where the abdominal muscl...
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