For my museum report I decided to do mine on a Kouros found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A Kouros is a Greek statue of a young male. The height of the sculpture was 6’4” tall. While observing this piece I found that it was made out of tan colored marble, and naked. His arms are tightly by his sides with holes in between his sides, but his fists are closed and connected to the body. The hair that is on his head looks braided and long. He stands with one leg in front of the other with no weight shift. He is very detailed, he has a necklace on his neck, a belly button, and is somewhat muscular. There is also cracks and chips taken from the piece because over time it deteriorated. This was made in 580 B.C.E.
This is one of the earliest marble st
Here the artist delineated the figure’s anatomy with ridges and grooves that form geometric patterns. The head is ovoid, with heavy features and schematized hair evenly knotted into tufts and tied back with a narrow ribbon. The eyes are relatively large and wide open, and the mouth forms a characteristic closed-lip smile known as the Archaic smile, used to enliven the expressions of figures. In Egyptian sculpture, male figures were always at least partially clothed, wearing articles associated with their status, such as the headdresses, beaded pectorals, and kilts that identified kinds. The total nudity of the Greek kouroi, in contrast, removes them form a specific time, place, or social class; the nude figure is like the gods but is a fully human shape.
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