Developments of Male statues in the 4th century BC

Developments of Male statues in the 4th century BC

1. Discobolos 450-440BC

   • High Classical period
   • The discus thrower
     • naked with purpose,athlete
       • 'Gratutious'
     • muddled mass of shaped ?
     • potential movement
       • nudity with prupose
     • one foot emphasis
   • Anatomy
     • Short closed curles of hair
     • 'Server' expression
     • Muscular body ribs and sixpack defined
     • torso not respond to movement of the body
   • Pattern and proportion
     • circular shape,in discus and arc created by arms
       • discus in hand
   • Pose and realism
     • momentary action pose
     • shoulders full frontal legs in profile
     • 'Z' shape created by movement
   • Myron

2. Myron

   • 480-440BC
   • athenian sculptor
   • one foot emphasis
   • nudity with purpose
   • snap shot of action life figured models
   • more proportional great focus
   • more twisting more obvious leg bent
   • 'greater boldness of pose'
   • representation of athletes,life models used

3. Doryphoros

   • 440BC
   • High Classical period
   • warrior carrying spear possibly achilles
   • Anatomy
     • short curled hair-close to head
     • 'Severe' expression
     • heavy muscles
       • 'cuirass aesthoque'
       • very harsh inguish ridge
     • young mans face with older mans body
   • Pattern and proportion
     • 'The Canon' form used
       • mathematical beauty proportion
     • 'Ideal unreality'
     • limbs shorter than should be
     • pattern in hair and chest muscles
       • 1:7 head to body ratio
   • pose and realism
     • body at rest relaxed
       • weight on right leg left leg bent
       • left arm bent at elbow right arm relaxed
     • trailing leg technique
     • CONTRAPPOSTO
       • half in movement half at rest
   • disengaged look
     • lack individuality
     • quadrifacial frontality
       • 360 digrees
   • 'ideal unreality' developed
   • Polykleitan
     • from argos
     • school of followers
     • depict mythelogical beings
     • developed ideal mathematical equation for human proportions
       • the Kanon/Canon
         • 'ideal unreality'
         • dynamic equilibrium
           • balance of opposites
     • pronounced contrapposto
       • Doryphoros

4. Polykleitan

5. Hermes and Dionysus

   • 350-330BC
   • late classical period
   • hermes carrying infant dionysus to be raised by the nymphs
   • Anatomy
     • touseled hair care free look
     • deep set dreamy eyes
     • soft muscular tone-realistic
     • slender elegant proportions
       • match young age-clean shaven
     • baby -shrunken adult
     • no canon form
   • Pattern and proportion
     • pattern-hair and abdominal chest muscles
       • drapery folds in cloak
     • 1:7 head to body ratio
       • closer to 1:8 smaller than reality
   • naked
   • Pose and realism
     • relaxed pose
       • tilted hip weight on right leg
       • 'S' bend in body
     • slight contrapposto used
       • trailing leg technique
       • baby in blanket
   • Emotion and relation to viewer
     • humanising the gods
       • everyday activity
         • baby sitting a brother
       • family image
     • quadrifacial frontality
   • Praxiteles
   • tree for support, help hold up baby

6. Praxiteles

   • humanise gods
   • uses trailing leg technique
   • tilted hips
   • weight on one leg
   • contrapposto
   • no ideal unreality
     • realistic as possible
   • incorrect proportion of 1:8 head to body ratio
     • look more realistic ??
   • bronze and marble median
   • emotion 'dreamy' expression

7. Apollo Sauroktonos

   • Praxiteles
   • 350-330BC
   • late classical period
   • 1-lizard symbolised disease smash with stone 2-Delphi-kills giant serpent
   • anatomy
     • long wavy hair tied up in headband
     • deepset eyes
     • young underdeveloped body-lean
     • faint inguinal ridge
   • Pattern and proportion
     • pattern-hair,knots in tree and branches
     • head large to body-young man clean shaven
       • 1:8 head to body ratio ?
   • pose and realism
     • relaxed pose
       • tilted hip
     • contrapposto clearly used
     • sinous 'S' bend in body
     • trailing leg