The limitations of sculpture require the artistic language of sculpture to be concise, rhythmic and symbolic. Because of this, sculpture pays more attention to formal beauty. Ancient Greek sculptors have a deep understanding of this.
Through some sculpture works, the physical beauty of sculpture is illustrated.
"Hu Warrior's Head" embodies the character of the object more intensively and generally. Thick lips, rising moustache and slightly drooping eyebrows together create a subtle dramatic effect. We have to admire the craftsman's in-depth and meticulous observation and superb performance skills, and make the characters come out of the clay sculpture in a concise and vivid way, which is vivid and impressive.
The sculptor made this scene very exciting, and the characters in the work are very realistic, which shows that the sculptor made this tragic scene very exciting, and the characters in the work are very realistic, which shows that the sculptor has mastered human anatomy, as well as skillful artistic expression and sculpture skills.
This is a group of typical works that faithfully reproduce nature and are good at beautiful processing, and is regarded as one of the most famous and classic sculptures in ancient Greece.
In Miron's The Discus Thrower, the author selects an athlete to bend down and swing the discus to the extreme. Before he turns around and throws it, his open arms are like a full bowstring, which is the moment of attracting but not sending, accumulating explosive force, and prompting the viewer to gain a strong sense of movement psychologically through association.
From the famous Venus statue of Milos in Greece, we can see that the Greeks worship and pursue beauty. With the development of natural aesthetic emotion, ideal beauty, a standard beauty, is extracted from natural beauty, and Venus is a typical representative of this ideal beauty.
Pheidias's "Three Fates" is a marble sculpture depicting Atropos, Clouseau and Lachisis in Greek mythology. Although the head has been damaged, it still vividly shows the superb level of carving art in classical Greece, which is amazing.
The Statue of Victory is also a work of Hellenistic period. It was made to commemorate the victory of a naval battle. When people found her body, her head and arms were gone and could not be recovered, but the statue still had amazing charm.
Michelangelo's David, the statue is made of a whole piece of marble, 5.5 meters high. It is recognized as one of the most boastful male body statues in the history of western art, which shows the masculine beauty of men and represents the highest achievement of sculpture art in the Renaissance.
These works embody the formal beauty of sculpture and achieve a high degree of unity of external formal beauty and internal spiritual beauty.