8.12.2010

Meditations on Venus-and her peers

It is thought that Venus was born 31,000 – 40,000 years ago at the beginning of the Aurignacian era. What were they thinking then? Was the depiction of oversized breast, exentuated buttocks and genetalia a deliberate exaggeration of the sexual features? Are these proportions unrealistic or wishful thinking? Do these figures resemble your grandmother or pornography?


Catalhoyuk Goddess


Cucuteni Venus, Drăguşeni, 4050-3900 B.C


Cycladic Venus, 2800 to 2300 B.C.


Venus Dolni Vestonice Gravettian Czech


Malta Venus


Venus from Mesopotamia late 5th c. B.C.E.


Venus of Hohle Fels,.ca. 36,000 years B.P E.


Venus of Willendorf

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