Figura. Grecia, siglo IV-II a.C

Figure. Greece, 4th-2nd century BC.
Terracotta.
Size: 11 x 6 x 4 cm.
Hellenistic sculpture represents the final period in the evolution of Greek sculpture, and developed in the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the conquest of Egypt by the Romans between 30 and 31 BC. It is an eclectic, secular and historicist language, which takes as its starting point the legacy of classical sculpture from the previous period, to which new oriental influences are added. It also involved a refinement of the representation of human anatomy and emotional expressiveness, as well as a fundamental change in aesthetics, moving away from the ideal to represent the individual, from the generic to the specific. Thus, the previous ethical and pedagogical ideal is abandoned in favour of a new emphasis on everyday human aspects, in an art that will have the aesthetic as its main purpose, although occasionally it will also be propagandistic. This new interest in man and his inner life, his emotions, problems and yearnings, resulted in a realistic style that tended to emphasise the dramatic, the prosaic and movement. Hellenism also provided the first individualised and plausible portraits in Western art. The subject matter was also broadened to include depictions of old age and childhood, minor non-Olympian deities and secondary figures from mythology, as well as popular figures in their everyday work.

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