Kritios Boy

One of my favorite pieces of art that we have studied so far is the statue Kritios Boy. I am very intrigued by the background history of this statue. It is believed to have been created by the sculptor Kritios hence the name of the statue. The Kritios Boy is one of the first statues to focus on how a person actually stands. The term for this is contrapposto. According to Google,
Contrapposto is an Italian word meaning counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off axis from the hips and legs.
The Kritios boy is standing with most of its weight shifted to the left leg. The realism of the statue’s pose is the reason I like it so much. When we first looked at this piece for class discussion, I was immediately
It is so different from the other statues we have studied. For example, the Egyptian statues focus more on the faces and they have very stiff bodies. They do not look realistic with these stiff bodies. This sculpture focuses more on the body than the face. I like how much detail is put into the body. I also like how the statue does not focus on clothing. It focuses on just how beautiful the human body is, and it focuses quite a bit on the details of the body. The statue is also posed in a life like position and the detail focuses on making the statue look realistic. Even though the statue is not life size, it is extremely proportionate. The legs are proportioned to the torso and this is partly due to the pose it is in. Proportions are very important to me. To me, all sculptures should be proportionate, and I find them to be beautiful and very important to art itself. It is what makes art pleasing to