Duane Hanson's Tourists II is an expression of modern contemporary realism that has Roman Classical values and little Greek values. Tourists II displays ordinary tourists of the day, with their cameras, travel bags, collar shirts, and watches. There is no idealization in the photo, it is simply a conviction of what the stereotypical tourist looks like. Similarly, Classical Roman style focused on real people, they were realistic and not idealized, unlike the Greek art values.
Greek art values personified gods such as Apollo and Zeus to perfect the ideal human form. The statues in Tourists II are the opposite. Tourists II was taken in 1988 (Riggs). Instead of marble, these statues are built with fiberglass and decorated in modern tourist clothing
Greek art values personified gods such as Apollo and Zeus to perfect the ideal human form. The statues in Tourists II are the opposite. Tourists II was taken in 1988 (Riggs). Instead of marble, these statues are built with fiberglass and decorated in modern tourist clothing