Venus Of Wilendorf: The Ideal Women

Images of the human body have been around for many years. We today have images of the human body flashing everywhere in society. The ideal women figure or man figure, what your should strive to look like from your hair to your toes. Images of the human body represent what a culture or society values in looks and propaganda. One of the first sculptures of the human body found was the Venus of Wilendorf. It was discovered in Austria in 1908 near the village in lower Austria called Krems. The Venus of Wilendorf is an image of a women, its about 4 inches tall with her main features grotesquely larger. There are two attributes to the Venus of Wilendorf that stuck out, her arms are meshed in so much with her big stomach it doesn’t look like she …show more content…
To Egyptians art was a way to show power and to tell stories. They decorated their tombs with beautiful drawing of their people and livestock and represented the king by wearing an animal head or fancy headset. Egyptians got a little closer then the Paleolithic cultures to create a perfect image of the human body but their image was still way wrong. Egyptians emphasize a few things in their images; palms, face, and eyes. They show them by the clearest image and that to them is with them standing or sitting with their torso to the viewer but with their feet pointed forward, their hands would be facing the same way as if they had two left hands, their faces are pointed straight forward but with their eyes showing as if they are looking at the viewer. If this image were to be the realistic view of a human we would very uncomfortable and our eyes would be far across our face. The Egyptians were so consistent with their images it became strange until they discovered graphs underneath the drawings. The graphs help the Egyptians to keep their images as consistent and precise as they could be. Which tells us that the Egyptian culture was a very ordered and consistent government and