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1.Venus of Willendorf
2.From Willendorf, Austria. ca. 28,000-25000 BCE
3.Limestone 4 and 1/4 feet high
4.description:
-she is thought to be based on a fertility image or a generalized image of the woman body
-was dubbed a "Venus" because of the Greece-roman goddess of beauty and love whom artists usually depicted nude, but it is doubtful that any of the prehistoric stone figures represented deities of any kind
-could also be a pregnant woman or just an exaggerated size of a lady
-the sculpture is an abstraction of a woman honing down to the core shapes of a woman
-scholars believe that the shape of the woman is due to the irregularity the stone used
-the head looks like to be covered with a hat woven from plant fibers or curly hair
-there is a emphasis on the female autonomy compared to the tiny arms- the breasts and the pubic region |
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1.15000-10000 BCE Cave in Le Tuc d' Audoubert (apollo 11 cave)
2.clay. each 2 feet long
3.stone spatula like smoothing tool and fingers to shape details
4.in strict profile and among the largest of the paleolothic sculptures known
5.the sculptor brougth the clay from outside th ecave complex
6.**the cracks in the releif resulted form the drying process and appreared within days of the sculptures completion
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1.spotted horses and negative hand prints
2.in cave in Perch-Merle, France ca.22000 BCE
3. 11 feet and 2 inches long
4.scultures and painters used the surfaces of pieces to determine where certain shapes or body parts would be bested placed to give an ilusion of a real presence to thier forms
5.convex are for bison and cattle and concave is more for horses and hands
6.the negative hand prints are considered to be a sign of a cult oof eople or a community which is more likey than a individual signature |
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1.hall of bulls
2. lascaux, france ca.15,000-12,000 BCE
3.many colored silhoutes appear as a variety of animals. some are only outlined.
4.most well known paleothoc cave and most of the pianting in th ecave ae far from the entrance and daylight.
5. not all animals depited are bulls. the animlas are depicted in several ways adn facing differnent ways.
6.twisted perpestive or composite view. |
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1.aerial view of stone hedge
2. salisbury plain, england ca. 2550-1600 BCE
3. circle is 97 feet adn trilithons 24 feet high and outter ring is almost 100 feet in diameter
4.most fmaous and megalithic monument in europe. inside is bluestones that encircle a horseshoe and outside cicrle are sarsen weighing 45 to 50 tons.
5. marked the pint where the sun rose at summer solestice
6.stonehede is an astormnical observatory and an remarkaby accurate solar claneder |
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