Kristios Boy From Byzantium: Art Analysis

Art History is a very important part of the evolution of art and artistic styles of arts, which is easier for us to realize and put ourselves in the social aspect of the age. The ancient Greece and Byzantium is two of the most important period of 15th art history. So I choose and want to compare and contrast the Kristios Boy from ancient Greece and Lamentation from Byzantium; I will analyze the stylistic, cultural, the subjects matter and the characteristics. And now I want to talk about the Kritios Boy from Ancient Greece first and also talk about the key stylistic characteristic of period style. There were some ideas from Egypt and Mesopotamia borrowed by Greeks, but a part of Greek innovations about arts made
The gold background was also used by the traditional Byzantine painting but this one- Lamentation which was coming with the different and creative background color, blue. The blue background refers the abstracted from nature and the main character's wide eyes penetrate the viewer's own and also this figure seems to spill out of the viewer's space
Lamentation was showed the passion of Christ by the evident of iconoclasm. The containing stylized figures somewhat abstracted from the nature; and the containing figures who seems to spill out or penetrate the viewer's space and iconoclasm showed the Christian subject to the viewer. For the first part of art analysis, I think both of Ancient Greece and Byzantine were showed by natural style; and contrast these two different styles of artworks from two different ages, the artworks from Ancient Greek was more original than
The result was a war that put an end to the power of Athens. It was a contest of a great sea power. The Athenian armada was destroyed in 413 BC, and the captives were sold into slavery." (Ancient Greece) So I think that's why the ancient Greece failed in the war and they wanted to develop the arts close to naturalism, Kuouros and contrapposto stance. Then I start to talk about the events from Byzantine- "The division of the Roman Empire". Theodosium I’s sons made the Roman Empire from East to West, but the eastern half of the Roman Empire was not connected with the religious frequently to the West and only the minor territorial control them. The artworks of Byzantine was a kind of art of Eastern that's why the art style of Byzantine was containing stylized figures somewhat abstracted from nature, containing figures who seems to spill out or penetrate the viewer's space and iconoclasm. Depends on the cultural, the artistic style was born in the contradiction of these two ages. Contrast their artworks, the main style of Acient Greece that they wanted to have their own country develop, but in the other hand, Byzantine only wanted to save their own culture for a while. For example, the Kritios bot and "Lamentation" are the most famous artworks in these two ages, which is showed the character of their stylistic clearly: Naturalism, Kouros and contrapposrto; containing figure who seems to spill out or penetrate the