坐姿男性身材 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	坐姿男性身材
品名（英）	Seated Male Figure
入馆年号	1996年，1996.281
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1825 - 公元 1897
创作地区	安哥拉或刚果民主共和国（Angola or Democratic Republic of the Congo）
分类	木雕（Wood-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 11 1/2 × 宽 4 3/4 × 深 4 3/4 英寸 (29.2 × 12.1 × 12.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	在孔戈文化中，具象雕塑描绘并具体化了活人和死人世界之间的界限。在神殿中展示的一系列木雕描绘了一个男性形象，两侧是由妻子、侍从和家臣组成的宫廷随从，用来纪念重要人物。这样的表现是复杂艺术形式的一部分，这些艺术形式为有影响力的祖先提供了机会，也因其卓越的美学而受到赞赏这种理想化的领导者形象曾经构成了这样一个群体的中心主角。他的沉思立场同时反映了他在另一个世界的命运和他对活着的人持续的责任。这个人物的主要身份是通过独特的姿势和等级标志来揭示的，包括有图案的帽子、锉齿和装饰性的划痕图案负责这件作品的Kongo艺术家捕捉到了人物沉思的面部特征中的大量表情；躯干的大胆渲染和手臂的定位也传达了休息时的活力感。
介绍（英）	In Kongo culture, figurative sculptures delineate and concretize the threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead. Displayed in shrines, a series of wood sculptures depicting a male figure flanked by a courtly entourage of wives, attendants, and retainers served to honor and commemorate the memory of important individuals. Such representations are part of a complex of art forms which afforded access to influential ancestors and which were also appreciated for their aesthetic excellence. This idealized image of a leader once constituted the central protagonist of such a grouping. His meditative stance reflects simultaneously upon his destiny in the other world and his ongoing responsibilities to the living. The figure's chiefly identity is revealed through both the distinctive posture and the signs of rank that include a patterned hat, filed teeth, and decorative scarification patterns. The Kongo artist responsible for this work captured a great deal of expression in the figure's contemplative facial features; the bold rendering of the torso and the positioning of the arms also convey a sense of dynamism in repose.