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The Venus of Willendorf

Exploring the Majestic Venus of Willendorf: A Paleolithic Masterpiece

The Venus of Willendorf, considered the most illustrious among the Paleolithic Venuses, is a statuette carved from oolitic limestone and adorned with red ochre paintings, standing at a height of 11 cm. Dated between 24,000 and 22,000 B.C., this iconic work of art is not native to the region where it was discovered but now reigns supreme in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Chronicle of an Extraordinary Discovery

In 1908, archaeologist Josef Szombathy discovered the Venus of Willendorf at an archaeological site near Willendorf in der Wachau, along the left bank of the Danube in Austria. The Paleolithic site underwent careful examination around 1990, allowing a reevaluation of previous estimates regarding the artwork's dating. Stratigraphic analysis indicated that the statuette was created between 25,000 and 26,000 years ago, a significant correction from earlier estimates that erroneously placed it between 10,000 B.C. and 32,000 B.C.

Sculptural Anatomy: Details and Vibrant Colors

The Venus of Willendorf, representing a nude female figure, rests her arms on her breasts. The most distinctive features are the rounded and ample forms, while facial features are deliberately left uncarved. The spherical head is covered with a hairstyle interpreted as a headdress of shells or a coiffure, perhaps reminiscent of the curly and frizzy hair typical of the African population.

The reddish clay surface, combined with the yellowish and porous limestone, creates a play of light and shadow that highlights the roughness of the surface. The underlying shadow emphasizes the abundant shapes of the figure, creating a suggestive chiaroscuro effect.

Symbolic Meaning: Fertility and Mother Earth Worship

The Venus of Willendorf, the precursor of prehistoric Venuses, is steeped in symbolism. These statuettes, usually ranging from 3 to 15 cm, often feature elongated legs and heads, perhaps suggesting the practice of embedding them in fields or among cave rocks, according to the customs of the time.

Accentuated sexual traits, such as monumental breasts, a prominent belly, and ample buttocks, are interpreted as symbols of fertility. The Venus of Willendorf, with its pronounced forms and attention to detail in sculpture, connects to the worship of Mother Earth and her ability to foster prosperity.

In conclusion, this statuette embodies the symbolism of an era where population growth was pivotal in elevating social status, emphasizing the primary importance of births in the construction of a civilization.

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Our environment can be the canvas for art & design!

[thekamelotbard]

"Adaptation is necessary" Another view of my previous piece, where Kana shows Hibito that a group of Flabebe and Floette have started using the glowing Fairy Flowers.

This is a companion piece to my previous piece! https://www.tumblr.com/thekamelotbard/759903961748832256/life-is-everywhere-you-just-have-to-look-for

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Oldest Neanderthal Engravings Have Been Preserved in a Cave for 57,000 Years. By Madeleine Muzdakis. Hakai Magazine

Picture; Scientists examining the cave’s interior. (Photographer: Kristina Thomsen) #neanderthal #caveart

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[coolclaytony]

Oh, I thought you were trying to recreate the shape language seen in paleolithic caveart

Poorly drawn Pichu line [redo]

[meepusgleepus]

i think that it's so funny in a kinda dark way that one of my detailed alien sophonts is one of the few i explicitly plan to go extinct

i either have or have plans to detail their culinary culture, early societies with things like caveart, vague religions, weebs, death practaces, media like films and books, and i'm sure that this list will only grow lol

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51,200-Year-Old Sulawesi Cave Art: Hominin or Human?

Could the Sulawesi cave art, dated to 51,200 years ago, have been created by ancient hominins? #southeastasianarchaeology #Indonesia #Sulawesi #caveart

via The Debrief, 27 July 2024: A recent study has dated the cave art in Sulawesi, Indonesia, to 51,200 years ago, making it the world’s oldest known figurative art. The author raises intriguing possibilities about the artists being ancient hominins rather than modern humans, but this was never raised in Adhi et al’s original paper and indeed the date of the rock art – while old – is still…

[accki]

shoutout to long lost twin core lol if i ever did fanart it would be the most horrifying stick figure caveart lmaooo glad to see so many similarities

super random, but just wanted to let you know that we're practically the same person but a few years apart in age lol i'm from southern california and studied sound design up at SFSU (for a filmd degree), had a questionable obsession with dsmp during covid and devoured tsv lmaoo just odd that its like . same people different flavors, thought you'd find it amusing that the world is just a little bit smaller

did you do dsmp fanart back in the day?? i wanna say it was a lot of c!ranboo?? your username def looks familiar lmao. anyway that’s sick!! we’re long lost twins

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#evolution #acryliconcanvas #70x100cm #pittasso #tasosperachoritis 2017 . . Available at Etsy.com/shop/pittasso . . . . #paintingoncanvas #yellowpainting #pinkpainting #pink #yellow #yellowpainting #figurativeart #primitiveart #childrenpaintings #animals #caveart #cavepainting #primitivism #ancientart #ancestors #history #historypainting #storytelling (at Athens, Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkGTvR5oFKH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Paleolithic Era

Introduction: The Paleolithic: The Ancient Stone Age

Derived from the Greek words "palaiòs" (meaning "old") and "lìthos" (translating to "stone"), the Paleolithic represents the ancient era of stone. During this period, humans inhabited caves and sourced their food through hunting and gathering of wild plants, following a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

The Art of Tools: From Flint to Amigdala

For tool-making, they used stones by chipping a piece of flint with harder stones. This method gave rise to choppers, which were used as weapons or for cutting meat and scraping hides.

Later on, these stones were chipped on both sides to create the amigdala, a kind of hand axe with an almond-like shape, sometimes decorated with geometric signs to emphasize ownership. This represents one of the first "artistic" expressions made by humans in this period.

Nomadic Dwellings: Caves and Prehistoric Shelters

Dwellings are not permanent since the hunter-gatherer lives in a nomadic manner. Consequently, Paleolithic humans tend to inhabit natural caves, such as those found in Pantalica, Sicily, but mainly in shelters resembling tent structures.

Artistic Expression: Birth of Rock Art

In the late Paleolithic, rock art emerged, with the first painted or engraved representations on rocks. These images depict animals and moving humans and seem to have had a dual function: they might have been used as part of propitiatory rituals to enhance hunting or as a narration of real events. Surprisingly, these representations maintain a remarkable degree of realism, though often stylized, allowing us to recognize the depicted animals even today.

Rock Treasures Worldwide: From Altamira to Val Camonica

Today, we can admire numerous examples of this artistic testimony in places like Altamira in Spain, Chauvet and Lascaux in France, Alt in Norway, the Tibesti Massif in Chad, Val Camonica in Lombardy, and Monte Pellegrino.

Hunters and Artists: Duality in Rock Images

Images of animals, as well as human figures, are the most recurring subjects of rock paintings. Their main function was probably of a magical and propitiatory nature: representing a hunting scene could bring luck to the hunters.

However, in scenes involving only animals, we might find a simple artistic purpose, that is, capturing, through drawing and color, the beauty of the surrounding reality.

Handprints: The First Form of Artistic Expression

The most primitive form of prehistoric painting comes to us in the form of handprints, obtained by pressing the color-soaked hand, tracing its outline with a finger dipped in pigment, or even spraying it with a straw. The use of these prints, often made with the left hand, remains shrouded in mystery, but undoubtedly, these enigmatic traces also speak the language of art.

Enigmas and Mysteries: Women behind the Prints

According to some scholars, a significant portion of the prints might belong to women, as the ring and index fingers of the hands that made them have the same length (while in men, on average, the ring finger is slightly longer).

The Allure of Ancient Traces: Prehistoric Art That Still Speaks

This detail adds a particular charm to these ancient prints, which remain a suggestive enigma in the history of prehistoric art.

[pixoplanet]

It's September 12th. 🎨 On this day in 1940, Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old auto mechanic, took his dog, Robot, for a walk near his home in Montignac, France, and made one of the most stunning archaeological discoveries of all time. During the walk, Robot ran into the entrance of a hole created by a fallen tree. Ravidat threw some stones into the hole and was surprised when they seemed to travel a long ways down. Returning with a teacher and some friends, he climbed down into the hole and began to explore. They soon discovered what were to become known as the Lascaux cave paintings – 17,000 to 20,000 years old and described by experts as “the cradle of art.”

The cave holds more than 2,000 painted and engraved images of animals and abstract symbols. A watertight protective layer of chalk has remarkably preserved the artwork in vibrant blacks, browns, reds, and yellows. The paintings are almost all of animals. There is only one human depicted and no flowers, trees, or landscape. The meaning of most of the abstract symbols is unknown.

Ravidat became an official guardian of the cave and a guide who, until the day he died in 1995, never lost his initial awe of the artwork he discovered. Lascaux was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, but is now closed to the public for its own protection. Only a few hundred meters away, though, lies Lascaux II – a virtually identical replica with 80% of the original images reproduced. It attracts about 250,000 visitors a year. ☮️Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

[thekamelotbard]

"Life is everywhere, you just have to look for it."

A small look at the future plans of my fan comic; Kana teaching Hibito a lesson in a cave filled with glowing flowers

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Oldest Neanderthal Engravings Have Been Preserved in a Cave for 57,000 Years. By Madeleine Muzdakis. Hakai Magazine Picture; Scientists examining the cave's interior. (Photographer: Kristina Thomsen) #caveart