Formal analysis of Kritios Boy

The Kritios Boy                                     Formal Analysis: Colors: the sculpture has yellow, brown and even gray marble colors, and for the different position of the light it can be seen clearly than other parts. Line: curve lines. Space and mass: the sculpture is on 3D Scale: life-size Composition: visual effects could be the emotions in his face.     Contextual Analysis: What Kritios wanted to express in this sculpture was the athletic body of the people of that age; also he mastered a complete understanding of how the different parts of the body act as a system, because the left leg is firm and the right one is bent, and it balance all the body with a kouros position. “The effect of these technical devices is to create a figure which seems to hesitate to be uncertain about what it is doing and where it will go.” (Pollitt, 17-18). Another important aspect of what the sculptor wanted to transmit to us is that the body of the masterpiece is of an adolescent, and looking the position of the body we can infer that he´s an actor

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