Smiling; and Joy.

Leafing through my copy of Janson's 'History of Art' I noticed, again, that in about 530 BC statues appeared in Greece, all of which were smiling enigmatically.  These statues are called kouros and kore, and are thought of as being 'archaic' forms.  This means that they aren't that good by 'our' standards.

Later statues rarely have smiles.  They have extremely life-like looks of horror and so on, but no smiles.

So why don't statues smile?  If I walk along and someone smiles at me it brightens m...