Exalted Beauties The Venus of Willendorf vs. the Barbie Doll Kristin Groth Chamberlain College of Nursing HUMN 303: Introduction to Humanities January‚ 2015 Exalted Beauties: Venus of Willendorf vs. the Barbie Doll The Venus of Willendorf is known for her voluptuous figure‚ and is often regarded as an icon of fertility‚ health‚ and abundance. Barbie is known for her blonde hair‚ big blue eyes‚ and her size zero figure‚ she is often regarded as an iconic representation of beauty (The icon
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A Woman from Willendorf - fat lady with penis boobs Venus of Willendorf 25‚000 BCE made of limestone Goddess‚ no face Woman from Willendorf‚ c25000 BCE. oldest sculpture known. anatomical exxageration. possible fertility idol. paleolith representation of women B Lion Human from Germany- 30-000-26000 BCE‚ mammoth ivory‚ tactile (cannot stand on its own) seen from all sides. not life like or found in nature. C Loacoon and His Sons‚ 1st century CE. 2 sculptors‚ Athanadoros‚ Hagesandros
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The Venus Flytrap Dionaea muscipula is a carnivorous plant that is native to North America and more specifically the southeastern parts of the United States. Most people know Dionaea muscipula by its common name‚ Venus Flytrap. The Venus flytrap is found mostly in North and South Carolina with a radius of about 60 miles from Wilmington‚ North Carolina. Although the Venus flytrap is native to this region‚ over the years people have transplanted the plant to Florida and Washington where they continue
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Comparing Venus of Urbino Through inspiration from Giorgiones’ Sleeping Venus‚ Titian a younger contemporary‚ developed the standard for the female nude‚ in his Venus of Urbino. Unlike his predecessor‚ Giorgione‚ Titian’s painting is one of the first indoor nudes in the renaissance era. The painting portrays a reclining nude in oil‚ her body softly rounded is unapologetically sensual and her attributes are painted as a commoner instead of a goddess. The compositional aspects of the painting must
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The Birth of Venus Alexandra Smith In Sandros Boticelli’s‚ The Birth of Venus‚ there were several different types of lines noticeable in the painting. There are actual lines to illustrate simple birds‚ and curved lines showing the edges of the shell. A lot of the lines were implied by the different colors next to each other. The edge of the trees and the leaves are shown by dark browns and greens against the blue sky. The hard lines of the edge‚ and soft lines in the folds of the fabric held
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Birth of venus Birth of Venus View Full Essay ART 111 Kayce Anderson Writing Assignment #8 The work that I have chosen from Chapter 19 is Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow (Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836) on page 462. Principles of Design: • The focal point of the painting is the sun-drenched valley and river. The emphasis comes from the diagonal of the tree to the left that directs the view of the scene down the valley toward the farmland. • Vertical balance can be seen with the
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The Birth of Venus by Sandro Boticelli Visual Elements * Line * The main type of lines that are used in the Birth of Venus are mostly actual lines. The way they are used by the artist is to form specific shapes to tell a story about the goddess Venus. There are a few implied lines are used to create the ocean as to which Venus emerges from‚ as well as the waves in her hair to show that it has movement. The actual lines are used to create the shapes of the nature and the angels and
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Catherine Tennison Humanities DC A3 Venus Figures Venus figures have been found in various places of the world‚ at different time periods. This implies that all cultures shared a common belief or a common thought of women and their bodies. The Venus figures are most popularly known to represent fertility. These figurines were typically made from soft stone (steatite‚ calcite or limestone)‚ bone‚ ivory‚ wood‚ or ceramic clays. The similarity of each Venus figurine from each time period shows
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The piece I chose is Venus on Fire by Erika Verzutti. This artwork is a bronze sculpture made up of three different type of forms based on pumpkins and other vegetation. A small bumpy sphere that has been flattened on one side sits on the bottom under the center of the middle piece that resembles a kobocha squash. This middle piece over hangs the bottom one by a couple of inches. Placed on top center with is large side down‚ tapering up to a peak is a figure that resembles an indented soursop or
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Venus and Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto is definitely one of the most unusual paintings when viewed through 21st century eyes. The painting depicts Venus lying on her left side‚ naked‚ and Cupid standing about a foot behind her. Inspired by ancient marriage poems‚ known as “epithalamia‚” the painting was apparently painted to celebrate a wedding and Venus’s body type and facial features were taken from that of the bride to be’s. The painter included a few items in the picture that relate to Venus and to
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