Greek artists tried to render human forms as realistic as possible during the early fifth century. Sculptures produced at that time show the model posing in a relax way, with one leg or shoulder slightly shifted so they do not look stiff.
Later on, the artists also attempted to depict the emotions of their subject, as well as the age of their body. Then the art transformed into more idealized realism. This means that they create an image of what is ideal, like a normal size of a head, when in reality that is not the case. The face was also depicted as calm.
The old techniques entail artists to do their work straight on a stone. But because they could not achieve realism through that, the use of modelling technique emerged. They used clay on armatures before they copy into stone.
Some of the classical arts include the Bronze Zeus from Cape Artemision, Youth (the ‘Kritian Boy) from Athens Acropolis, and Metope from the temple of Zeus, Olympia.
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