The more things change, the more they stay the same
The more things change, the more they stay the same
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You like it?
It's very generous.
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I just think they're neat
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Yes yes, “ah tah.”
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Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott hypothesize that the figurines may have been created as self-portraits by women.[12]This theory stems from the correlation of the proportions of the statues to how the proportions of women's bodies would seem if they were looking down at themselves, which would have been the only way to view their bodies during this period. They speculate that the complete lack of facial features could be accounted for by the fact that sculptors did not own mirrors.
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Yeah, I saw that rebuttal and it seemed pretty strange to me.
They couldn't have been sculpting from their own perspective, because they technically had access to viewing themselves from a third-person perspective?
We technically had access to drawing with linear perspective all along, but somehow until only a few hundred years ago, this is the best we could do:
It just seems like a very modern-biased way of thinking about depiction. Mapping objective reality (rather than subjective perception) into art is a relatively new concept.
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I've always liked me a big woman, but those ancient boys may have liked too big of a woman. Who am I to judge, though? Probably sign of a real good harvest, and I bet that made everyone horny back then.
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Up until just a few decades ago the hardest thing for people to get was food, not housing as it is (for most of the people on Lemmy) today.
Because of this, being fat was seen in various societies as a sign of wealth or beauty, sometimes both. As late as a hundred years ago the US and Great Britain had "fat man societies". Here's an article on that:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/07/469571114/the-forgotten-history-of-fat-men-s-clubs
We can't really know why the "fertility idol" sculptures look that way, but if you're an early human spending your life going through cycles of feast and famine as you follow prey animals sticking around with the fat person you ran into was a good way to stay alive.
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Maybe women used to be more gigantic back them and we're nerfed across time or something. I unno. I am no xenobiologist
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They were most likely made by women, the proportions make sense when you think of a woman looking down at herself. It is just that when the first men to uncover the artifacts looked at them they said "wow, these were obviously made by men and are ancient porn!"
There are ones that have been found at various stages of pregnancy so were likely an educational tool.
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Our biological weakness for an ample bosom transcends the ages.
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Big booba good
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I'm using abnormous from here on out
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I've just found it in the dictionary! Shut my mouth!
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"art"
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Motif*
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Your turkey appears to be missing it's head
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The carving just looks like a whole chicken with lemons under the breast skin. 🤤
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Aint technology great?
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I had to look up the word adnormously. Idk if that word fits nothing irregular about big ole titties
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Define art? I once saw a piece of fruit in a cage that was supposedly art. All seems like bullshit to me.
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It's not art if it's not handmade by a human
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Been thinking about it quite a bit
I've come to the conclusion that to me, art is a play on your senses.
A painting plays with your sight
Music plays with your hearing
Food plays with your taste
Dance plays with your sense of balance
Poems plays with your mind
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I bet you a urinal that you’re wrong.
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They're absolutely art. The fact that we're arguing over it at all is proof enough of it. It's a new medium.
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Absolutely agree. No human made, not art.
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