Venus of Willendorf

Throughout history female figures have played an important role as subject matter. The female figure is very subjective, as peered through the different lenses of varying cultures. The status and functions of women in these cultures are the primary factors that influence how they are portrayed in art of a certain culture. However, the female figure itself through its natural and inherent iconography represents fertility and the importance of women in society. This natural iconography creates certain

Giovanna Schelosky Biological Anthropology Professor Vogel Saddleback College The Venus Mystery The Venus figurines are a collection of 144 known statuettes from the Paleolithic era representing women. They have been found in many different places including Europe, Siberia and even the Mediterranean outside of Italy. These figurines are mainly constructed from different medias such as bone, steatite, calcite and limestone. Those figurines are also considered one of the earliest known work of

Polykleitos’ Bearer and Laocoon and His Sons Polykleitos’ is a Roman statue. It is made out of marble and it is 6 feet 6 inches tall. The statue is of a male who looks to be athletic someone who works out. The statue is standing in a contrapuntal position; it has its left leg slightly bent witch causes his foot not to be flat on the platform under him. That position helps the statue stay balance. It is not rigid. The statue has no facial expression. It is serious. It eyes are deep and

taken on a special role within the culture that creates it. Statues have often been considered an important medium to represent the goals of patrons. For example, when survival of the species was the greatest challenge facing civilization, the Venus of Willendorf came into being. Its exaggerated bodily features represent the yearning for fecundity. As art and sculpture have developed, the reflection of society’s values in sculpture has remained. In this paper, I will address two statues from the ancient

(Barton). They were often portrayed to tell stories of war or celebrations. There were some sculptures of the human figure as well in prehistoric art. One is the Venus of Willendorf. This sculptures is very crude and primitive. This sculpture focused on a woman because woman are fertile and they kept the clan in existence. On the Venus of

compare show some of the different views of women. The Woman of Willendorf, also known as Venus of Willendorf, and the Medici Venus are extremely interesting to compare because they are both women who have very different representation but are also very similar in many ways. The Venus of Willendorf is thought to have been a religious symbol, also representing women and their fertility, as well as ideal beauty. The Venus of Willendorf is from the Upper

To start off the comparison between the woman from Willendorf and Aphrodite of Melos, it’s important to give a brief overview of both. The Woman from Willendorf was a Human free-standing figurine from the upper paleolithic period(pg 6), depicting a woman with an emphasis on her womanly traits, such as her breast and hips. She is thought to be a votive figure; which tribes would offer to another tribe as a sign of fertility and that the other tribe wanted to mingle with their tribe. The Aphrodite

Period, more specifically in the Paleolithic Era, people seem to acknowledge this because anthropologist have found a great quantity of Venus Figurines form this period. Venus Figurines are small statuettes that resembles the female body with slight differences. These statues have enlarged breasts, swollen abdomen, and large buttocks, most of them or at least the Venus of Wialdfor had the face covered and both arms and legs seem to be cut in half. Women from the Society from

The “Black Venus” has many visual elements. Some of the elements apparent to are line, shape, colors, texture, balance and symmetry. Lines form shapes on the bathing suit worn by the Black Venus. Shapes that appear in the figure are hearts and flowers which contribute to the intended message of this piece of art. Colors that also contribute to the artwork are yellow, orange, white, blue, red and green. All of those selected colors are very lively, giving the solid black figure a live mood. The figure

Venus of the Rags is a larger than life sized classical statue of the Roman goddess of love with a large pile of colored clothes that are simply piled up on each other on the floor. The viewer can see the back of the Venus statue. The statue’s face and body somehow touch the pile of clothes that accumulate in front of it, hence the front of the statue is not shown, but only the back. This statue is not an original statue from Rome but Pistoleto has purchased this cement Venus from a garden center