In Dust and Ashes
05-20-2006, 02:17 PM
I'm taking Art History, Ancient through Medievil. right now, we're doing Prehistory and everything is open for interpretation. at first the book's given theories were agreeable, but the more I think about it, the more I think we all try too hard to think that ancient people groups were so much different than us.
let me explain.
the biggest thing we are discussing (besides stonehendge) are the venus figurines which are basicly mini statues of naked girls. with all of them, there is no face, hands/arms, and feet are virtually non-existant, and the emphasis rests on their stomach, breasts, genitals and thighs, which are usually way over exaggerated.
of course the reining theory is that these statues are fertility statues used as a supersticious way to give good luck to child bareing or whatnot. It seems logical, but I was walking downtown last night and one of the shop windows had a modernistic wooden carving of a girl....
she was naked, had no face, no feet, no hands, and the emphasis was put on her breasts, stomach, hips, thighs, and genitals. all of which were exaggerated and stretched in some form or fashion.
I realized then that we really stretch our imaginations way too much thinking that people back then were so different from us.
so anyway, the point of this thread is basicly to share interpretations of prehistoric art and whatnot.
let me explain.
the biggest thing we are discussing (besides stonehendge) are the venus figurines which are basicly mini statues of naked girls. with all of them, there is no face, hands/arms, and feet are virtually non-existant, and the emphasis rests on their stomach, breasts, genitals and thighs, which are usually way over exaggerated.
of course the reining theory is that these statues are fertility statues used as a supersticious way to give good luck to child bareing or whatnot. It seems logical, but I was walking downtown last night and one of the shop windows had a modernistic wooden carving of a girl....
she was naked, had no face, no feet, no hands, and the emphasis was put on her breasts, stomach, hips, thighs, and genitals. all of which were exaggerated and stretched in some form or fashion.
I realized then that we really stretch our imaginations way too much thinking that people back then were so different from us.
so anyway, the point of this thread is basicly to share interpretations of prehistoric art and whatnot.