Laocoön and His Sons and Hellenistic Art (280 words)

What were distinctive changes in Greek art during the Hellenistic period?
Examine the image of Laocoön and His Sons included in Chapter 5 "The Classical Style" in The Humanistic Tradition (5e) closely.
Discuss 3 ways in which this sculpture is particularly Hellenistic.

Laocoön and His Sons

The Hellenistic period was Greece’s time of Empire building led by the conquests of Alexander the Great. It was not a time of allegiance to city states we saw in the Classical period. Art from the Hellenistic period differed from previous Greek periods of history in three ways: monumentality, realism, and movement. Laocoön and His Sons is a group sculpture from the Hellenistic period of Greek civilization....

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