Monday, October 26, 2015

What: Kritios Boy Marble 2' 10" the first statue to show how a person naturally stands. Sculptor depicts the weight shift from one leg to another (contrapposto) The head turns slightly and the youth no longer smiles.
Who:Ploykleitos Historians once thought it was the work of the sculptor Kritios- is one of the most important statues in the history of art.
Where: The Acropolis, Athens Greece
When: ca. 480 BCE 
Which: Early Classical Greek- inspired by Egyptian unnatural Archaic pose statues
How:Symmetria of all the parts to one another.

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