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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...

The fragments of a marble statue of Diadoumenos (youth trying a fillet around his head) is located in the Met museum in the Roman and Greek exhibition across from Marble statue of a wounded Amazon . The statue stands around 6 feet tall, about the size of an average person and is made out of marble. The Diadoumenos statue was created around ca. A.D. 69–96 by Polykleitos who was an ancient Greek sculptor . He is considered to many as one of the greatest sculptor of the Classical period. One of his many famous sculpture is the bronze male nude known as the Doryphoros . It is from the late Archaic to early Classical Period. Both Polykleitos and the Greeks were thoughtful of the proportion of the human body. They apply genomic ratio to get the proportion and the true anatomy of the human body. Many Greek artists follow one rule where they celebrated the human body by representing it very youthful and in nude. The Diadoumenos statue depicts the Clas...