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Comparison of Sculptures

Comparison of Sculptures

Introduction

The sculpture in general allows us to know details of the society that produced it. The main theme of Greek sculpture is the representation of the human body, in which artists capture their ideal conception of physical beauty. The body is conceived as a set in which the parts store certain proportions and its members have a fair measures. The sculpture in ancient Greece is of great importance to the sculpture of today. They represent the cultures in which they were embedded. On the other hand, Aphrodite of Melos or Milo Aphrodite is a sculpture belonging to the Hellenistic period that is in the Louvre Museum, Paris. Its name comes from Melos, an island southeast of Greece, in the archipelago of the Cyclades, where it was discovered on April 8, 1820. It has a height of 204 cm and carved into fragments in marble of Paros. They are taken to be copied in part, forms and techniques of these cultures. This paper presents a comparison on the three historical cultures: Standing Youth (Kouros), Statue of Khafre and Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo) along with the style and techniques in the periods of their creation.

Standing Youth (Kouros)

A kouros is a representation of a male youth, especially those from the Archaic period in Greece (from 650 BC to 500 BC). In the past decades, representations of human beings were made ??of wood, but after seventh century, the Greeks learned the art of carving stone with iron tools Egyptians. Modern art historians have used the word to refer to this specific type of male nude statue since the 1890s. Kouros was also commonly known as "Apollos," since it was assumed that all young kouroi ideally represented Apollo. Their female counterparts in sculpture are korai. Also the representations of the mythical beasts of the period may show archaic features of the statuary (Guralnick, 1985).

It is no coincidence that large marble sculptures began to replace the smaller ones in Greek temples after about 650 B.C. The initial kouroi were created in a time when Greece was under the cultural influence of Egypt (Caskey, 1924). Some features apparent in the Egyptian sculpture include:

Head up, eyes facing, flat face, main square, narrow waist, square muscles squarish and poor delineation

The left foot is advanced without corresponding dislocation of the hip. This striding stiff front characteristic of the statues is reminiscent of sculptures of Egyptian pharaohs.

The arms hung to the right side with fingers curled, thumb first, although some show one arm extended in front of the elbow.

A faint smile (archaic smile) on his lips

Statue of Khafre

The life-size statue of Khafre is still a masterpiece of sculpture of the Old Kingdom as it embodies the concept of sovereignty in ancient Egypt. The king is seated on a throne whose support comes to shoulders above it; Horus as a falcon with its wings embracing the king's head, and the two figures are linked because the reigning king is the embodiment of ...