British Museum visit, 2006

Brass statue of a Portuguese soldier

The detail on the gun and uniform is quite striking, but the face is very stylized. It's interesting that the artist chose not to make the face realistic, despite clearly having the ability to. In fact, looking at art from lots of different cultures, one soom realizes that realistic faces are the exception rather than the rule. The Greeks and Romans did them, and we do them, but most other cultures prefer less realism in their art. I wonder why that is?

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