FA 30a Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stick Figure, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Bone Carving
Document Summary
This art is from before the time of writing. There needs to be a great deal of imagination but there are reasonable theories based on the time period and other clues. Somewhere within this period, where we begin to have real art objects. Prehistoric version of venus, the goddess of love in ancient rome. Not a fashion statement, part of a series of highly exaggerated female form. Swollen breasts, swollen abdomen, highly visible genitals. Not sexualized, or used as a sex toy, but rather fertility. It is viewed as a prayer for successful child birth. Everyone was on the edge of starvation. It is concerned with procreation, survival of the infant, the mother and the group. The actual size of the object is quite small, fits almost perfectly in the palm of. The painting would not be visible in such great lighting as with modern tech. but. Cave painting, lascaux, france 15,000 bce rather with spotty flickering torch light.
