New York Kouros발음듣기
New York Kouros
(soft piano music) [Voiceover] We're in the room in The Metropolitan Museum of Art that's devoted to archaic Greek sculpture.발음듣기
[Voiceover] But I just saw a man walk over to this 2,600 year old sculpture and put his hand as a kind of caress against her backside.발음듣기
Of course, this is wrong in so many ways but what happened is, for him, 2,600 years collapsed.발음듣기
[Voiceover] That man walking through the Met felt something that the Ancient Greeks felt when they made these sculpture.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And we should say a nude young man because as we've just learned, although the female figure is clothed, and when the Greeks made these the female figures were clothed and the male figures were nude both were equally sensual.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The only thing he's wearing is a little choker around his neck and a headband to fill it but what struck me was that the man who sculpted this kouros figure was creating something that was meant to trespass lifetimes to exist longer than any individual.발음듣기
So, indeed it was meant to last and to serve as a reminder not only of his life but of his connection to his family of his family's lineage across time.발음듣기
[Voiceover] It's important to note that this would have been made for an aristocratic family but it's also important to note that this is not a portrait in the way that we think of that in a modern era.발음듣기
I'm interested in the way that in the sixth century we have sculpture during this archaic period that's made largely for aristocratic families for the elite in Athens and the surrounding area.발음듣기
When we move into the fifth century with the developments towards democracy we have sculptures that are made and commissioned for the state and by the state and that are very different than what we see during the archaic period.발음듣기
Usually, they're wearing a loin cloth or some kind of clothing representing the Pharaoh, representing the kings of Egypt.발음듣기
[Voiceover] But there's a real distinction here which is that this figure is cut away from the stone.발음듣기
There is no stone backing. He stands upright in this gallery, in the middle of the room, completely unaided by anything but his own two legs and there is a kind of extraordinary autonomy that results.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Well, autonomy and so much more because when the Egyptians embedded that figure in the stone they gave it a sense of transcendence of timelessness, of being godlike in some way.발음듣기
By freeing the figure from the stone, we immediately have a sense of him being much more like us, much more human. [Voiceover] Existing in our space.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Look at his stance. His shoulders are squared, his hips are squared, his leg is forward.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Those limbs are locked in place even as they're representing symbolically the forward movement of the figure.발음듣기
[Voiceover] So during the classical period, in the next century, the Greeks would make figures that stand in contrapposto that is they've shifted their weight.발음듣기
It occupies a very strange place between being here present with us and also being absent from us and that's in the gaze too.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The lack of contrapposto, the symmetry, does place him in some ways firmly in a world that is not ours.발음듣기
[Voiceover] His features have been reduced to geometric shapes, even his body parts are very geometric.발음듣기
[Voiceover] As a result, very much isolated from each other so you have an arm which seems distinct from the torso as opposed to creating a smooth transition.발음듣기
In fact, you might even look at this sculpture and see it as very cubic, perhaps even referencing the four sides of the stone that this was carved from.발음듣기
One can imagine a block of marble that this sculpturer is approaching from four different sides.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Actually, drawing the figure on those four sides and then cutting the stone away and using a system of proportions, very much like the Egyptians did.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The sculpturer has been really careful about creating a kind of alternation between flat areas, for instance, of the face against much more complex and deeply carved areas, the braided or beaded hair, which creates this beautiful frame for the face.발음듣기
It really is a tremendous feat that they've been able to create a sculpture that is balanced and supported on essentially two narrow angles. [Voiceover] Without falling over.발음듣기
[Voiceover] But you'll notice that the sculptor has left a little bit of a bridge between the clenched fists at his side and his hips to help support those arms because if they were free hanging they would be too fragile.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And even so, you can see that this sculpture is 2,600 years old and it was obviously put back together by the museum.발음듣기
Over time it broke and it's always interesting to look for that and to notice what maybe a reconstruction and what's original.발음듣기
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