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Bulquerin
2013-10618
On our last meeting in Art Stud 2 before the Holy Week, we were assigned to
watch a documentary film. It was called "How Art Made The World". Well, it was comprised
with a lot of segment, so the only one shown to us was "More Human Than Human". The
figures and images on the shown video was widely exaggerated. In these exaggerations, one
can feel an emotion, one can create an idea, and one can fulfill his own satisfaction.
Well, first of all, these are only the things that I recall from the video so I can't list and
react on all the things that were mentioned there. So here I
go. First was about the Venus of Willendorf. From what I
learned from my class in Anthropology, the Venus of
Willendorf was the ideal woman body. Hunters from that
time were the ones that mostly used this figure. Because
they have no women in their side when they go hunting and
this figure can fit inside a pocket, they use the Venus of
Willendorf instead to satisfy their sexual needs. The
exaggeration of the hips and sexual organs can infer an idea about fertility or motherhood.
Because of exaggeration, we can see the main point of a figure or an image.