nude has come a long way since 24‚000 B.C.E. when a small‚ female figure was carved by our ancestors. Venus of Willendorf was a first step in a long history of artists‚ styles and conventions that brought us to what art critics named the first truly modern painting: Olympia. Great milestones were accomplished along the way: Praxitales’ Aphrodite was the first Greek female nude. The Sleeping Venus by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione"Giorgione‚ was the first female reclining nude in
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Hellenistic Greek Sculpture (c.323-27 BCE) Venus de Milo (c.130-100 BCE) Louvre‚ Paris. For other forms of sculpture from the wider Aegean area‚ see the Art of Classical Antiquity (c.1000 BCE - 450 CE). Note: among the most famous items of Hellenistic Greek sculpture was the Colossus of Rhodes (292-280 BCE) - one of the Seven Wonders of the World‚ as compiled by the Greek poet Antipater of Sidon. The Hellenistic Styles The era of Hellenistic Art (323-27 BCE) occupied a time-span nearly as long
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Shakespeare found the story of Venus and Adonis in Ovid’s Metamorphoses‚ a poem in fifteen books that retells more than two hundred pagan myths of transformation. Velasco describes in her study‚ the fascination and popularity of mythology in the Elizabethan period. “Elizabethans were fascinated by stories about gods who loved‚ but could not pursue the loveliest object of their desire‚ without experiencing terrible transformations in doing so. These stories represented the natural way of expressing
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In life‚ selected pairs of things are meant to be different; black and white‚ but the most obvious twosome a human being can think of is‚ none other than‚ a man and a woman. And even our society fashioned a rule saying that a man should avoid doing girl things at all costs in the same way a woman should never ever touch man’s work even in their dreams. Sense of priorities‚ field of strengths‚ and attitude towards relationship are the three things that set the characteristics of men and women apart
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periods‚ portray the human body: the Venus of Willendorf‚ the Woman from Syros‚ Menkaure and Khamerernebty‚ the Snake Goddess‚ and Weary Herakles. The first work of art that focuses on the human body is from the Paleolithic Age‚ dates from 28‚000 to 25‚000 BCE‚ and is known as the Venus of Willendorf. It was given this name after its discovery in Willendorf‚ Austria. Made of limestone and at a mere four and a half inches high‚ the Venus of Willendorf was thought to have been a talisman
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around 10‚000 years back. The Paleolithic is age is often referred to as the stone age. The Neolithic era started in 10‚000 BC in the middle east and is often referred to as the New Stone Age. Some of the earliest fertility figures are Venus of Hohle Fels‚ Venus Of Willendorf‚ Akua
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their body image; however the way the males have treated these women showed little respect. During the Paleolithic period a sculpture was carved from using simple carving tools to create a masterpiece that is known today as the Venus of Willendorf. The Venus of Willendorf has suggested to archeologists that the sculpture was to have been an image of fertility‚ which is how their existence survived for so many years. Looking at the sculpture also indicates that the Paleolithic women were more on
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idea of beauty‚ a lack of tools or materials used to express an idea‚ to a passing muse that comes and goes such as a concept forgotten to the new generation. It becomes justifiable to state that artworks from the past‚ such as the Prehistoric Venus of Willendorf to Australian Contemporary pieces like Tom Roberts Shearing the Ram and John Brack’s Collins Street 5pm correlate in how they are constrained by cultural themes such as time and place. Art and culture are not black and white concepts; there
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Prehistoric Art (Venus of Willendorf & the Minoan Snake Goddess) Prehistoric art wasn’t a definite period of art. It was simply the name given to all art that occurred before recorded history. It was a way of reflecting beliefs‚ values and lifestyles to one’s culture. It was an era before any written history so everything was expressed through art. Prehistoric people created different art forms to represent where they belonged‚ where they were from and what they were part of. These people created
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considered a woman unless you had curves. Evidence of this body image can be dated back to prehistoric times with the miniature statue of Venus of Willendorf. Venus of Willendorf was discovered in the Danube River‚ located in Austria. This statue is said to have dated back 25‚000 years ago (Venus‚ n.d.). Christopher Whitcombe (2000) describes Venus of Willendorf as: A sculpture that shows a woman with a large stomach that overhangs but does not hide her pubic area. A roll of fat extends around her
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