Archaic period
Metropolitan kouros refers to a sculpture formed around 600-900 BCE. It was made during the archaic period and consist of a free standing nude man as the subject suggested by the name kourus. It consists of a brightly painted sculpture in a closed-lipped archaic smile and represents linear rigid and symmetrical forms (Stokstad& Cothren, 2014).
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Classical period
Spear bearer (Doryphoros) was created during the classical period in 450-440 BC.it was made to display perfect proportion .it consists of a nude male in an upright condition made considering a system of ratios between the basic unit and length of body parts (Stokstad& Cothren, 2014). It was constructed during a political challenging time for the Greeks but their designers experimented widely.
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Hellenistic period
The Lacoon
The artwork depicts a unique design of art by Hagesandros, Polydoros and Athenodoros.it represents stories from the Trojan wars and is believed to have been created as an original in the first century BC and was later adapted by the Romans (Stokstad& Cothren, 2014).
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The three artworks and sculptures from archaic classical and Hellenistic periods demonstrate similarities in themes and styles. They display these of war and religion through the artwork of gods and spiritual forms. They all produced sculptures and artwork in ceramics that showed their involvement in war and political influence (Stokstad& Cothren, 2014). The buildings they constructed exhibited design inspirations that are creative and thoughtful aiming at impressing the viewers with unique artwork. They are however different in their display of designs (Stokstad& Cothren, 2014). They derived inspirations from human interactions and exchange of ceramics. The classical period main features were humanism rationalism and idealism and took place while the Greeks defeat Persians in a decisive victory as a revenge of past differences. The Hellenistic introduced new experimental sculptural styles that consisted figures made of bronze. Their artwork displayed patterns as opposed to applied decorations (Smith & Plantzos, 2012). Hellenistic period replaced the classical period of smooth surfaces with dramatic forms that were deeply undercut in high relief.
References
Stokstad, M., & Cothren, M. W. (2014). Art history. Boston: Pearson Education.
Smith, T. J., & Plantzos, D. (2012). A companion to Greek art . Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell
