Free Standing Scultpure: 2nd LIT Flashcards
General
Hurwit: Overriding impulse of archaic art was to formalize, to pattern.
New York Kouros
Osborne: Without attributes and motion they give no grounds for telling a story - lack of specificity in korai.
Stewart: As symbols of a united, ageless brilliant men and women, these statues perpetuated values from generation to generation.
Kleobis and Biton
Stewart: As symbols of a united, ageless brilliant men and women, these statues perpetuated values from generation to generation.
Berlin Standing Goddess
Stewart: As symbols of a united, ageless brilliant men and women, these statues perpetuated values from generation to generation.
Anavyssos Kouros
Stewart: As symbols of a united, ageless brilliant men and women, these statues perpetuated values from generation to generation.
Peplos Kore
Spivey: The visibility of her breasts through the drapery, as well as the careful arrangement of the hair to accentuate breasts make it an erotic sculpture.
Stewart: As symbols of a united, ageless brilliant men and women, these statues perpetuated values from generation to generation.
Aristodikos Kouros
Stewart: As symbols of a united, ageless brilliant men and women, these statues perpetuated values from generation to generation.
Doryphoros of Polykleitos
Pliny: Embodies the rules of art within a work of art.
Hermes and Dionysus
Woodford: Hermes exemplifies a far different aspect of divine life than previous sculptors.
Aphrodite of Knidos
Woodford: Praxiteles took contrapposto even further and created an s-curve.
Clark: Sensual tremor.
Clark: Very suggestive work of art.
Apoxymenos
Woodford: Radical naturalism.
Woodford: No single entirely satisfactory point of view but exciting from a multitude of viewpoints.
Pliny: Makes them as they are.
