Marble Statue Of A Koouros, Greek, Attic

Marble statue of a kouros (youth), Greek, Attic, ca. 590-580 B.C. Fletcher Fund, 1932. Accession number: 32.11.1

The statue is made of marble, instead of the bronze statue. This statue is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in Attica. The statue is a kind of symbol; he does not in any way a likeness. This is my first expression when I saw the statue: the statue is showing me a simple, clear action that was used by Greek youth sculptures throughout this period. Looking at this statue, he expanded into 3D space, because he is standing straight and facing forward without any exaggerated movements, thus the post makes him look closed-off and a column his limbs are locked in space. Therefore, the standing posture, the

The artists to describe different roles of men commonly used nudity. To the Greeks, nude men were the mark of a hero. From the size of the statue, it is a life-sized sculpture or larger. The statue shows me a man’s characteristic within the Greek art. He is rigidly frontal, standing in a weird striding walking post due to his arms and hands clenched at the side, his left foot forward and the right one behind. He is standing without any benefit and support; he stands upright in the gallery on his own two legs. On the contrary, the Egyptian sculptures have stones between two legs and the back so that the sculpture can stand more steadily. As for the texture, he is standing there plainly, but it is clear for me to look at, there is nothing decorative that is shown on the

Looking down I found that he has very long toes and his legs were as strong as his thigh. Looking even more carefully, I found that he does not have an obvious pelvis and the waistline was smooth. Although some of the details were missing, looking up and down this unclothed body, I can see the lines on his body showing where the muscles texture belong. The slightly engraved muscles on his chest embedded in him have a broad shoulder and slim waist. Obviously, the strong muscles were not appeared on his body because the sculptor does not engrave on it. Unlike the Egyptians, they like to engrave human muscle lines very clearly to show the musculature. Some lines on his back also shows he belongs to the lean body type. For example, the back of his shoulder seems like a flat plane, no muscles line, and only has a slim body. The sculptor does not engrave muscles very deeply and carefully, just engraved some muscle lines slightly. His hips and thigh is stronger than his upper part of the body, though it seems like it is not at the same scale. Continuing to look at the statue, his arms are very close to his body, but still have a gap between his each side of the waist that shows his waist was pretty slender. It also has a gap between both feet. The left foot and the clenched hands show that the Egyptian was impacted by Greek art, the archaic early classic. During the earlier