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…
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
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…
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