Humanism is the study of the human and its moral and ethical dimensions. (Sayre) Humanism played a large part in how Greek artists expressed the human form in a way never before seen through free standing sculptures. Two of these particular sculptures were the Kritios Boy and Diskobolos. All though the Kritios Boy and Diskobolos were made at two different time periods, both helped influenced future free standing sculptures. The Kritios Boy is one of the most important works in Greek art. Its importance comes from it being one of the first works in which the artist cared about how human beings actually looked and stood, as opposed to Egyptians sculptures that were straight and stiff . This new form was called contrapposto, which is when