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Venus Of Willendorf Research Paper

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The impact of exaggerated images in the modern world focusing on both positive and negative influence on the society. Exaggeration of images is expanding in large amounts in the world of today which comes from the ancient images which were exaggerated. Most people are exaggerating themselves in many different ways and is mostly done though devices and surgeries because of technology. The role of images in the modern world has influenced people all over the world because the society persuades people to think the way they want them to think. Ancient images of the human body Venus of Willendorf The Venus of Willendorf is one of the earliest human sculpture of the body made by humankind. It is an 11 cm statue discovered on the banks of Danube …show more content…

The earliest known canons of proportions were made by Egyptians. Their proportions influenced Greeks sculptures, they started to create a Canon that would allow them to depict the perfect human body, not a real person but a body based on a defined harmony among parts. The Canon was based on mathematics not on real people but statues. The Greeks tried to depict the human statue with a life- like representation. One of the ways that helped them to achieve this was by developing what is known as contrapposto pose. (Paul, 2008) The Egyptians were so obsessed with their order of painting images in their pyramids. They used a grid of squares to make their images the same size and everything was in order. The head was seen in profile hence they drew it sideways, the eyes were also drawn in profile with the head and only one eye was seen. The shoulders and cheat are seen from the front, the hands look like they are both left hands as they are flatly drawn. The fingers are the same size and they are in uniform length. The legs in motion are much more clearly seen sideways as their images are in two dimension (Spivey, 2005)

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The notorious Greek sculptor Polykleitos designed a sculptural work as a demonstration of his written treatise, entitled the Canon. This Canon was an example of what he considered to be the perfect, harmonious, and balanced proportions of the human body in the sculpted form. His canon was a theoretical work that was based on ideal mathematical proportions. Polykleitos was obsessed with the male figure and was determined to get the proportions correct, which he wound up doing. His sculpture, Doryphoros, featured chiastic and contrapposto in order to contribute naturalism to the image.

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The Venus of Willendorf is a sculpture of great importance from the prehistoric time period. Noted to be created somewhere from 24,000 to 22,000 BCE, this sculpture was thought to be a “portable fertility

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Good thing the Romans took it upon themselves to copy statues out of marble which are still around today. One of these pieces was called the Doryphoros made originally by Polykleitos. Polykleitos studied the human anatomy and principles of commensurability, parts of the body relating to one another and together as a whole. His compositions also addressed rythmos, competitions with the illusion of movement. Polykleitos studied these things so in depth, he figured out the proportions mathematically.

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Creating an amazingly life-like appearance to its sculptures, not only demonstrated, in my mind, a higher intelligence, but is defiantly a tribute to their focus on superior strength and fitness. Although the realistic style was soon changed to create an even more ideal human figure, the understanding of the human body and how to recreate it through art was only the beginning of Greece’s contribution to the “classical ideal.” After their rise to power, gained by their triumph over Persia, the Greeks again changed the way we see art. This time they turned to their knowledge of geometry, focusing on the creation of grand architecture as their medium.

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The sculpture Doryphoros or “Spear Bearer” was created by sculptor Polykleitos in the Early Classical Period around 450-440 B.C.E out of bronze but was later recreated out of marble material. The ancient Greeks thought the human body was perfect, not the body itself, but how the mathematical proportions of every part of the body were in perfect relationship to the others. Polykleitos set out to capture what would perfect ideal beauty be? The idea that you could create a perfect body based on math was part of a bigger set of beliefs for the Greeks.

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