Venus of Willendorf

Venus of Willendorf, Paleolithic Period, c. 24,000-22,000 B.C.E. Limestone painted with red ochre, 11.1 cm tall. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna The Venus of Willendorf is the most well known sculpture mobiliary art of the Paleolithic period. It was discovered in 1908 outside the small Austrian village of Willendorf by josef Szombathy, an Austro-Hungarian archaeologist. It is named after the Roman goddess of love, Venus, and since it was discovered in Willendorf, it came to be known as Venus of Willendorf. The artifact is made of limestone, which according to Mineralszone.com is vulnerable to acid and can wear away details in statues and other arts. Despite this susceptibility, the mobiliary art has conserved its red ochre paint…

3-3:50 16 November 2015 Portraiture Throughout Cultures Portraiture is one of the most common styles of art throughout history. It has been used to depict royalty, religious figures, and today with the advancements in technology, portraits are taken and shared with the world instantly. What defines a portrait is debatable; portraits can show a person’s true personality, or show who they want to be, that’s all up to the artist. Many cultures have different styles of creating portraits and the…

The Venus of Willendorf is an ancient and symbolic figure created around 25,000 years ago. This statue, standing at about four and a half inches tall, was discovered on the Danube River in Willendorf, Austria. Many Archeologists believe that a Hunter-Gather society created it as a representation of a Mother goddess due to some of the statues emphasized attributes. Worshipping a Mother Goddess would make the most sense when you considered the conditions most ancient societies were living in. A…

Contents INTRODUCTION 4 CHARACTERISTICS OF CHOSEN IMAGES AND WHY THEY MADE SUCH AN IMPACT ON THEIR AUDIENCES 4 Venus of Willendorf 4 Egyptian Figures 6 Riace Bronze 9 COMPARISON OF ANCIENT IMAGES AND THOSE IN THE MODERN WORLD 11 Venus and Kim Kardashian 11 12 Egyptians and comic illustrations 13 HOW THIS HAS AFFECTED THE WORK OF ME, AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER 13 Advertising 14 Photoshop 15 Photography 15 CONCLUSION 17 List of images 18 Bibliography 19 INTRODUCTION In this assignment, I am being…

The Venus of Willendorf is a fertility goddess. This female goddess is worshiped by the Neolithic woman. This sculptures purpose was to survive from the Paleolithic period. Woman would hold the figure for her power during childbirth to ward off death. The Willendorf figure has no visible face making it concept more than a human. The figure emphasizes on her large breast and her stomach. Her genital looks swollen, perhaps unnatural in order to give her that goddess look. Her arms and her feet…

art is driven by tradition, language, symbolism, religion, and belief. On the other hand art itself can influence those factors, which creates defining moment in art history. Before the many languages that we know and use today, art was the main way of communication in civilization dated way back in the Palolithic period. Art During the 30,000, b.c and 3,000 b.c, represented a time when civilization appreciated lifestyle and wilderness. Sculptures like like the Palolithic’s Venus of Willendorf…

going to compare are Venus of Willendorf crafted sometime between 28,000-25,000 BCE. and Josef Schusser’s May Evening painted in 1897. Venus of Willendorf is of an ancient sculpture dipicting a woman figure. Shapewise, the art piece is not natural in the approach…

1. The shape of the Venus of Willendorf is very round with several features exaggerated such as in the stomach and in the breasts. It is given a texture on its head which seems to imply that it's hair though where the face should be appears to be covered by this hair. There also is a few other details in the statute such as having a belly button and having a defined pubic area. The meaning and function of this object can be understood 2. In the Paleolithic painting the humans are rather simple…

The creamy white marble statue displayed in ROM is a Roman or Hellenistic copy of a notable Greek bronze attributed to the classical Greek Sculptor Kallimachos. (Fig.1) The Venus Genetrix was a popular sculptural style towards the end of the 5th century BC, existing copies are characterized by showing the goddess Aphrodite draped in moistened, or "transparent" garment. The figure of the goddess is both sensual and humane. The statue is close to life size, however, since the head and arms are…

The Realism with in Art Figures Over time art has transitioned from one, two and three-dimensional art, as well as the structure of it. Sculptors went from sculpting on walls, buildings etc. to sculpting life-size human or animal figures. In this paper I will be discussing three different art works, how they are similar and different from one another and my purpose for choosing each art work. Venus of Willendorf also known as Women of Willendorf, Kroisos and Flavian Woman Portraiture are the…