Standing Female Figure Wearing A Necklace And Venus Of Dolni Vestonice
Prehistoric art is profoundly symbolic and conveyed by the different works of arts. These kinds of arts consist of cave art, women, men, and animal sculptures. Prehistoric art is represented through tan, white, brown, and black colors. Sculptures during pre-history were mostly represented of women and their fertility. These female figures were called Venus statuettes. The two artworks named Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace and The Venus of Dolni Vestonice share the same symbolism, aesthetics, and time period, but have physical differences.
The artwork Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace is from the Early and Middle Bronze. Her height, portraying the women of the Bronze Age, is twenty-seven centimeter and …show more content…
width is fourteen centimeters. She was discovered in Southwestern Arabia and is made from sandstone and quartzite. This gives the sculpture a grainy and smooth look. The figure is a tan and white stone-sculpture. Her body is very curvy as she exhibits a thick waist, thighs, and buttocks. Her face is lightly outlined, and is physically unrecognizable. She wears a tight necklace around her neck. Across her abdomen, she wears a strap. She holds her abdomen like she is supporting something fragile. Most figures during this era distinctly resembled women. “The period between 30,000 and 20,000 BC is most noted for images of women. Generally characterized by large breasts, stomachs, buttocks, and thighs and exaggerated pudenda, these figures
Daunt, 2 represent women in all of the stages of their lives: pubescence, pregnancy, childbirth, and the obesity of later life” (“Prehistoric and Ancient Art”). The figures of this era are very plump. They define the female’s identity by an apparent stomach, full breasts, spacious waist, short and stumpy legs, buttocks, and thick thighs. The artwork Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace is very un-proportional. Her body parts are large, as she is extremely short. Her body is boxed shaped with wide, broad shoulders, giving her an athletic feel. Her hands are placed below her breasts, in the center of her abdomen. This depicts relaxation and confidence. Her hands are very petite, with her arms bent at the elbow. The figure is full-length, even though her legs are short. She is centered in the composition, because she is a statue and stands alone. Due to the way her hands are placed below her breast and the outline of her breasts, it is understandable that this sculpture was used for fertility purposes and to resemble pregnancy. She has a small amount of detail, but is powerful in her own way. People can tell the figure is a woman because the exaggerated body parts. Her nudity and the way her stomach is un-proportional to her whole body depicts how pregnancy overpowers a women’s body. Her nudity in this artwork represents woman during their pregnancy because while they are pregnant, they are the most natural and beautiful.
These images of women are known to rarely have faces, but their jewelry and hairstyle is relevant. Because the Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace has no face, it symbolizes how fertility and the baby growing inside the mother are beautiful, and a face is unnecessary to portray beauty. Her strap connects to her necklace and resembles how she protects her baby, as she supports it with her hands. “A
Daunt, 3 few males appear ithyphallic, suggesting that these human or divine images were used in fertility rituals” ("Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace”). Women of this era were figures of fertility, therefore; the Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace definitely is an image of fertility. People of this era believed women figures would support pregnant women through fertility and childbirth.
Furthermore, the artwork Venus of Dolní Vestonice is from The Upper Paleolithic Period.
Her height is eleven centimeters high and her width is four centimeters wide. She was discovered in Dolní Věstonice in Moravia, and is a ceramic made of bone meal and clay. She is 25,000 to 29,000 years old, making her one of the oldest pottery products known. She is an inky, brown-black color. There are three main types of art in this era; they are body art, portable art, and parietal art. Portable art is the type of art the Venus of Dolni Vestonice is. Portable art is Prehistoric art, specifically during the Upper Paleolithic Period. “Portable Art-ivory beads, carvings, figurines, and other shaped or decorated pieces that can be moved from place to place. Portable art is found throughout Europe” (“Types of Early Art”). Venus of Dolní Vestonice depicts the woman during Prehistoric art, and how their lives are formed around their body shapes. The sculpture of this woman is very pudgy. She has an obese look, with immense breasts, broad hips, chunky legs, round naval, and muscular shoulders. The exaggerated abdomen of the woman symbolizes how important the role of a woman is, because they can conceive and produce. This artwork is a symbol for women sexuality and fertility. To focus on fertility, the artist’s main contrast in the artwork is her stomach and breasts. The round, bulgy stomach represents fertility
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Daunt, 4 pregnancy. The artist outlines fertility by enlarging and drooping the woman’s breast, and making her in the nude. The face of this sculpture is hardly emphasized, because the only noticeable appearance is her eyes. The artists of Venus figurines main goal is: make the body parts the main concept, and the face insubstantial. The sculpture is full-length. Moreover, the sculpture represents womanhood from the breasts and below because of the wide hips, huge breasts, large buttocks, large stomach, and thick thighs. From the breasts and up, the sculpture seems to have a more masculine appeal. Her shoulders are broad, and look strong like a football player. Her face is pushed out like she is showing dignity and strength. From behind, the sculpture looks like a female with a gigantic buttocks, like two watermelons put together. The artists did a superior job expressing her sexuality, as her butt from behind identifies her as a woman. There are four marks on her back, near her buttocks. These marks resemble the strength women have to undergo when they are pregnant. Pregnancy adds pain to women’s bodies, but they are strong and overcome the pain. These marks resemble the beauty of a women’s pregnancy, and a mark that will be there forever to symbolize the beauty of birth.
The Bronze Age was a period of advanced metalworking that cultures utilized to create artwork. Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace is from the Early-Middle Bronze Age. “The Middle Bronze Age (1500 - 1250 BC) marks an important period of change, growth and probably of population expansion too. There was a fundamental shift in burial practice away from barrow burial, towards cremation in large open cemeteries where ashes were placed in specially-prepared pottery urns”(bbc.co.uk). The Bronze Age was the period after the Stone Age. Bronze age was
Daunt, 5 the begging of metal to humans, and there were many inventions during the Bronze Age. “The Bronze Age saw the earliest written script, known as cuneiform”(“Bronze Age”). The Bronze Age was famous for the sculpture, Women from Willendorf. This sculpture is similar to Standing Female Wearing a Strap and a Necklace, they are both images of fertility.
The Upper Paleolithic people had a different lifestyle than the people of the Bronze Age. “People living during the Upper Paleolithic lived in houses, some built of mammoth bone, but most huts with semi-subterranean (dugout) floors, hearths and windbreaks. Hunting became specialized, and sophisticated planning is shown by the culling of animals, selective choices by season, and selective butchery: the first hunter-gatherer economy. Occasional mass animal killings suggest that in some places and at some times, food storage was practiced” ("Was the Upper Paleolithic the Height of Artistic Brilliance?"). Religious ceremonies were common during Upper Paleolithic, and participation was high. These people believed in supernatural beings, as there is evidence through cave paintings. People of this time participated in cannibalism and burials. “The animalistic features encountered in the art of the Upper Paleolithic Period were most likely only a part of the religion that existed at that time” ("Prehistoric Religion"). These people were really interested in animals, they loved to hunt and draw pictures of them. In fact, “The realm of hunting was primarily a masculine sphere; nevertheless, it also includes in religious phenomena the feminine aspect, as symbols of female fertility (and probably also of female deities) demonstrate” ("Prehistoric Religion.").
The purpose of these two arts is to show people the beauty of fertility and
Daunt, 6 pregnancy through sculptures of women in an idealistic way. Venus sculptures give special prominence to the women’s breasts and buttocks. These sculptures aid women who are pregnant, because they have a beautiful image to look up to. These sculptures make pregnancy more meaningful to some people, because some do not realize the strength it takes a women to carry a baby for nine months. These artworks display the power and strength women have to undergo in order to have childbirth.
The artwork Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace is from the Early and Middle Bronze. Her height, portraying the women of the Bronze Age, is twenty-seven centimeter and …show more content…
width is fourteen centimeters. She was discovered in Southwestern Arabia and is made from sandstone and quartzite. This gives the sculpture a grainy and smooth look. The figure is a tan and white stone-sculpture. Her body is very curvy as she exhibits a thick waist, thighs, and buttocks. Her face is lightly outlined, and is physically unrecognizable. She wears a tight necklace around her neck. Across her abdomen, she wears a strap. She holds her abdomen like she is supporting something fragile. Most figures during this era distinctly resembled women. “The period between 30,000 and 20,000 BC is most noted for images of women. Generally characterized by large breasts, stomachs, buttocks, and thighs and exaggerated pudenda, these figures
Daunt, 2 represent women in all of the stages of their lives: pubescence, pregnancy, childbirth, and the obesity of later life” (“Prehistoric and Ancient Art”). The figures of this era are very plump. They define the female’s identity by an apparent stomach, full breasts, spacious waist, short and stumpy legs, buttocks, and thick thighs. The artwork Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace is very un-proportional. Her body parts are large, as she is extremely short. Her body is boxed shaped with wide, broad shoulders, giving her an athletic feel. Her hands are placed below her breasts, in the center of her abdomen. This depicts relaxation and confidence. Her hands are very petite, with her arms bent at the elbow. The figure is full-length, even though her legs are short. She is centered in the composition, because she is a statue and stands alone. Due to the way her hands are placed below her breast and the outline of her breasts, it is understandable that this sculpture was used for fertility purposes and to resemble pregnancy. She has a small amount of detail, but is powerful in her own way. People can tell the figure is a woman because the exaggerated body parts. Her nudity and the way her stomach is un-proportional to her whole body depicts how pregnancy overpowers a women’s body. Her nudity in this artwork represents woman during their pregnancy because while they are pregnant, they are the most natural and beautiful.
These images of women are known to rarely have faces, but their jewelry and hairstyle is relevant. Because the Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace has no face, it symbolizes how fertility and the baby growing inside the mother are beautiful, and a face is unnecessary to portray beauty. Her strap connects to her necklace and resembles how she protects her baby, as she supports it with her hands. “A
Daunt, 3 few males appear ithyphallic, suggesting that these human or divine images were used in fertility rituals” ("Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace”). Women of this era were figures of fertility, therefore; the Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace definitely is an image of fertility. People of this era believed women figures would support pregnant women through fertility and childbirth.
Furthermore, the artwork Venus of Dolní Vestonice is from The Upper Paleolithic Period.
Her height is eleven centimeters high and her width is four centimeters wide. She was discovered in Dolní Věstonice in Moravia, and is a ceramic made of bone meal and clay. She is 25,000 to 29,000 years old, making her one of the oldest pottery products known. She is an inky, brown-black color. There are three main types of art in this era; they are body art, portable art, and parietal art. Portable art is the type of art the Venus of Dolni Vestonice is. Portable art is Prehistoric art, specifically during the Upper Paleolithic Period. “Portable Art-ivory beads, carvings, figurines, and other shaped or decorated pieces that can be moved from place to place. Portable art is found throughout Europe” (“Types of Early Art”). Venus of Dolní Vestonice depicts the woman during Prehistoric art, and how their lives are formed around their body shapes. The sculpture of this woman is very pudgy. She has an obese look, with immense breasts, broad hips, chunky legs, round naval, and muscular shoulders. The exaggerated abdomen of the woman symbolizes how important the role of a woman is, because they can conceive and produce. This artwork is a symbol for women sexuality and fertility. To focus on fertility, the artist’s main contrast in the artwork is her stomach and breasts. The round, bulgy stomach represents fertility
and
Daunt, 4 pregnancy. The artist outlines fertility by enlarging and drooping the woman’s breast, and making her in the nude. The face of this sculpture is hardly emphasized, because the only noticeable appearance is her eyes. The artists of Venus figurines main goal is: make the body parts the main concept, and the face insubstantial. The sculpture is full-length. Moreover, the sculpture represents womanhood from the breasts and below because of the wide hips, huge breasts, large buttocks, large stomach, and thick thighs. From the breasts and up, the sculpture seems to have a more masculine appeal. Her shoulders are broad, and look strong like a football player. Her face is pushed out like she is showing dignity and strength. From behind, the sculpture looks like a female with a gigantic buttocks, like two watermelons put together. The artists did a superior job expressing her sexuality, as her butt from behind identifies her as a woman. There are four marks on her back, near her buttocks. These marks resemble the strength women have to undergo when they are pregnant. Pregnancy adds pain to women’s bodies, but they are strong and overcome the pain. These marks resemble the beauty of a women’s pregnancy, and a mark that will be there forever to symbolize the beauty of birth.
The Bronze Age was a period of advanced metalworking that cultures utilized to create artwork. Standing Female Figure Wearing a Strap and a Necklace is from the Early-Middle Bronze Age. “The Middle Bronze Age (1500 - 1250 BC) marks an important period of change, growth and probably of population expansion too. There was a fundamental shift in burial practice away from barrow burial, towards cremation in large open cemeteries where ashes were placed in specially-prepared pottery urns”(bbc.co.uk). The Bronze Age was the period after the Stone Age. Bronze age was
Daunt, 5 the begging of metal to humans, and there were many inventions during the Bronze Age. “The Bronze Age saw the earliest written script, known as cuneiform”(“Bronze Age”). The Bronze Age was famous for the sculpture, Women from Willendorf. This sculpture is similar to Standing Female Wearing a Strap and a Necklace, they are both images of fertility.
The Upper Paleolithic people had a different lifestyle than the people of the Bronze Age. “People living during the Upper Paleolithic lived in houses, some built of mammoth bone, but most huts with semi-subterranean (dugout) floors, hearths and windbreaks. Hunting became specialized, and sophisticated planning is shown by the culling of animals, selective choices by season, and selective butchery: the first hunter-gatherer economy. Occasional mass animal killings suggest that in some places and at some times, food storage was practiced” ("Was the Upper Paleolithic the Height of Artistic Brilliance?"). Religious ceremonies were common during Upper Paleolithic, and participation was high. These people believed in supernatural beings, as there is evidence through cave paintings. People of this time participated in cannibalism and burials. “The animalistic features encountered in the art of the Upper Paleolithic Period were most likely only a part of the religion that existed at that time” ("Prehistoric Religion"). These people were really interested in animals, they loved to hunt and draw pictures of them. In fact, “The realm of hunting was primarily a masculine sphere; nevertheless, it also includes in religious phenomena the feminine aspect, as symbols of female fertility (and probably also of female deities) demonstrate” ("Prehistoric Religion.").
The purpose of these two arts is to show people the beauty of fertility and
Daunt, 6 pregnancy through sculptures of women in an idealistic way. Venus sculptures give special prominence to the women’s breasts and buttocks. These sculptures aid women who are pregnant, because they have a beautiful image to look up to. These sculptures make pregnancy more meaningful to some people, because some do not realize the strength it takes a women to carry a baby for nine months. These artworks display the power and strength women have to undergo in order to have childbirth.