ART-2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 77: Cycladic Culture, Flat Feet, Ionians

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24 Mar 2020

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Prehistoric Aegeans Lecture 2

Cycladic Culture

● Art appears abstract by modern eyes

○ No natural forms

○ Mainly shapes and figures

● Female Figures

○ 2500 - 2300 BCE

○ Originally painted

○ Losses individuality

○ Collection of shapes and

angles

■ Mostly triangles

○ Cycladic lacks written language

○ Theories - both of which aren’t

great

■ About fertility, pregnant

● No clae

connection to

Venus figures

■ Images of deceased

○ Backside is all flat

■ feet come out at an

angle

■ Can’t stand up by

herself

○ Very long and thin

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