Tuesday, October 21, 2008

paleolithic Venus Figures


“Venus” figures have been interpreted as:
1.Fertility symbols
2.Expressions of ideal beauty
3.Erotic images
4.Ancestor figures
5.Dolls to help young girls learn women’s roles.


Figures always contain large, heavy breasts, a protruding belly, and wide hips. The other appendages were much less important - if they we carved at all, they were highly simplified.

[This is a good example of abstraction - the reduction of shapes and appearances to basic yet recognizable forms that are not intended to be exact replications of nature]

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