WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Three types of figures prevailed-the standing nude male youth (kouros, plural kouroi), the standing draped girl (kore, plural korai), and the seated woman. All emphasize and generalize the essential features of the human figure and show an increasingly accurate comprehension of human anatomy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Archaistic, the most common retrospective style in Greek and Roman sculpture, refers to works of art that date after 480 B.C. but share stylistic affinities with works of the Greek Archaic period (ca. 700–480 B.C.). Archaistic figures stand with legs unbent and occasionally with one leg forward.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the world of the ancient Greeks there was a very close relationship between sculpture and architecture. Both temples and sculptures were created in order to honour the gods and the sculptures were not just an embellishment of the temple; together they combined to form an integrated and harmonious whole.

Detailed explanation-5: -Greek sculptural figures in stone and bronze have become some of the most recognisable pieces of art ever produced by any civilization and the Greek artistic vision of the human form was much copied in antiquity and has been ever since.

Detailed explanation-6: -It can be argued that art up to the Greeks had been abstract and formal, while from the Greeks onwards it was based upon realism.