Reply To: Hellenistic Variety

[tmbergan]

Hellenistic Greek art is a lot more diverse than Classical Greek art. The Classical art started taking steps towards humanizing their deities, as seen in Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, but the Hellenistic artwork takes it a step further and really shows them with more humanistic traits, as seen in Sleeping Eros. Not only does Hellenistic art show gods and goddesses as more human than they previously had, they also show more emotion in each piece and have larger sculptures telling more stories. The Laocoön is a great example for this as it shows both agony on all three men’s’ faces, as well as telling their story of their deaths by the serpent. We also see a range of ages, from the infant Eros to the old market woman in the Hellenistic art versus the Classic artwork that only showed young adults.