Greek Sculpture

Greek Sculpture

Greek Sculpture can be organized into two categories: Statues, which stand freely, and Reliefs, which adorn the walls of buildings. [NS] {SW}
Greek sculptures on a large scale must have begun to develop long before the mid-seventh century. Before that sculpting was done mainly with wood. The desire to build and sculpt in stone for the sake of permanence was what caused the large-scale development of Greek sculpting. Greeks sculpted the first truly freestanding large stone images of the human form around 600 B.C. The male statues were called Kouros and the female were called Kore. The male statues would always appear naked whereas the women would be clothed.
It was the Greeks who first made high reliefs common in sculpture. They did this by fully exploring the artistic potentials of the genre. [RA] {HI}