If you think about it there is a very close .
And even though we do not draw mammoths on the walls .
anymore, we still hang pictures to decorate out perfectly smooth and painted walls. You .
cannot live without art, well, actually, you can, but who would want that? Art is purely .
esthetic, it serves no other purpose except for the pleasure of the community, and that is .
why we need it in our lives. In today cosmopolitan, wireless culture we need something .
that will brighten our day, something that will make us feel better when we look at it, .
something that will leave us speechless when we think about it, something like a piece of .
art. A picture or a sculpture. And even though it might be a red dot on the white .
background, that is called masterpiece and costs way more than a fur coat, or an .
ameba looking woman, or a man, sometime it is hard to tell who is who, it is still .
beautiful. It is just going through a different stage of modernism, it has evolved. Evolved .
from the past. But the past is not gone either; it is present, and present in it.
The two pieces of art I chose to look at were: statue of Kouros, and statue of .
Hermes. They are created in two different styles and different periods, but amazingly .
enough; they are still similar to each other to a certain degree.
The first was an early Greek nude statue of about 600 B.C. Judging by our .
standards one would probably think that it is simple, primitive and unrealistic, but it was .
not true at a time. The other statue is of a later period of about 310 B.C - 320 A.C. and it .
looks more like something we would see today. .
The Kouros boy was made in an Archaic Style; its proportions are something we .
are not used to, because they are far from natural, even though it has naturalism present in .
it. The hips are more slender and still then the ones of the Hermes. It looks a little .
awkward because it doesn't resemble anything that we are used to (like the ultra thin .