ART 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nicholas Nixon, Suzanne Lacy, Special Period
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It was found in a burial chamber, which suggests this culture"s emphasis on the fragility of life and the cycle of life and death (slide 3) da vinci. Jan van eyck"s detail of eve from the ghent altarpiece emphasizes extreme naturalism, as was typical of northern renaissance painting. This representation is meant to showcase both the suffering of humankind, with the detail of cain murdering abel above eve"s head, and the promise of birth. The woman from willendorf is an object is from prehistory when there was no system of writing; without written records, we can only infer objects" meanings through our understanding of artistic symbolism and how the visual elements communicate. This figure may be a fertility charm because of the figure"s large breasts, carefully incised pubic triangle, and child-bearing hips. (slide 6) The figure is very small-scale, so it is portable for a hunter/gather/nomadic society. (slide 7) youth and age.
