Kristios Boy

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Kristios Boy

"Boy Kritias," (490-80 years. BC. E., Acropolis Museum) shows the evolution from archaic to classical sculpture during the first Greco-Persian War. It's realistic proportions and detailing is based on the visual experience and mathematically calculated proportions (e.g. Canon Polykleitos) and not on the schematic ideals of the previous generation.The earliest Kritias made of wood and therefore not preserved (Hurwitt, pp. 41). But in VII, the Greeks learned the art of the ancient Egyptians of stone with metal tools, and began carving the Kritias from the rock - for the most part of the Parian, and Samos marble. Moreover, unlike their predecessors, they are no longer used copper and bronze and iron, so they could cut the better. Typical sites of the archaic period, Kouros created when Greece was experiencing the cultural influence of Ancient Egypt, as can be seen by the typical static frontal pose - a probable reminiscence of images of pharaohs. The Greeks could see many of these statues, visiting Egypt as merchants or mercenaries.

Kritios or Critios is a famous sculptor Athens Classic V century, probably a pupil of Antenor and practiced in the workshops of Attica in ancient Greece. He is an artist who worked between the end of the Archaic Period and end archaic considering pupil Antenor and teacher of Myron and promoted the concept of contraposto, term Italian to denote the harmonic opposition of the body parts of the human figure, which provides some movement and helps break the law of frontality (Woodford, pp. 56). The statue of Kristios Boy is of paramount importance to the Greek sculpture, because it represents the transition from archaic to classical style. It was on the excavations at the Acropolis found and is probably from the “Persian debris ", i.e. they must have originated before ...