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what is art
Title: what is art
Category: Arts & Humanities
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what is art
Kouroi are life size or larger, freestanding stone figures of unclothed young man striding
forward. They are considered today to be one of the most distinctive products of the
Archaic era, the period of ancient Greek history from roughly about 650 to 500 BCE.
In ancient Greek the word "kouros" (plural, "kouroi") means male youth, and at least
from the fifth century, specifically an unbearded male. Modern art historians have decided
to use the term to refer …showed first 75 words of 768 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 768 total…work has a sense of more permanence witch
was alien to the Greeks. The second difference is that the kouros is nude where as an
Egyptian work would not have been.
The kouros is a very important key piece for the transition from Egyptian art to Greek
art. It has many characteristics taken from the Egyptians, yet you can start to see the
differences that will later lead to the realistic sculptures of Greek art.
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