practice blog post #5

Statue of a kouros (youth)

I chose this becacuse it was very simple and i felt that it looked basic form of statue of human. The thing one of his leg is forwarded also made me interesting.



According to the website of Metropolitan Museum of Art(http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.11.1), " it is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in attica, the region around Athenes." The Greeks learned their carving skills like this statue from Egyptians and it was used by Greek sculptors for more than a hundred years. A kouros is very similar to Egyptian sculptures but the difference is the Greeks depticted their male figures in the nude, while the Egyptians were normally skirted. Moreover, the Greek sculptors emphasized the act of walking of the figure. On the website, they also says that this sculpture is unrealistic and looks weired to modern people, it shows two important aspects of Archaic Greek art.

Citation "Statue of a kouros (youth) [Greek, Attic] (32.11.1)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.11.1 (October 2006)