Reneé Sintenis's Daphne: A Tranquil Bronze Study

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Reneé Sintenis’s bronze sculpture Daphne. It is 58 3/4” high include the base. Located on the right wing which is the European area of the museum. There are not a lot of natural light on the sculpture, but there are several spot light. Those lights highlighted the whole sculpture. The lines of the sculpture is thin and rough but it gives viewer a tone of tranquility and gracefulness. From the front view, the sculpture seems like a growing tree. The color is dark brown and the whole body is mainly in the same tone. In this view point she is mainly in a straight line, the top seems larger than the base. We can see that although the sculpture is pretty thin but the weight is well balanced. Her two vividly hands are gently open reaching …show more content…

It’s not about the technique and the detail. The Kore is standing in a rigid pose, obedient and immobile as it were, yet bursting with strength and femininity through her soft arms, the kind features of her face, and the subtle suggestion of the curvature of her body under the heavy peplos. The ornate hair that drapes naturally on her shoulders, her measured “smile” and the pigmented iris bestow a sense of abundant vivacity and potential energy to the statue. Daphne is different, movements are all over her body. Her stretching arms, down neck, turning chest, bending legs. All of these make her not only a sculpture of somebody but a vividly scene that is telling us something. The Kore can’t attract people as long as Daphne can because it don’t have deeper meaning as Daphne do. Daphne is more like free lines but Kore is solid shape. We can see the improvements of art through out these two pieces. It become not only focus on realistic and looks but more on what the artist trying to tell us. In Daphne’s case, the artist simplify the details which would make her look more human-like, but on the artistic conception. To see this sculpture as a whole pice and make viewer get the feeling even standing far away. Daphne can work very well with the environment. If you place it outside it will perfectly join in the garden. This is which Kore can’t

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