Artwork

I took this picture when I visited in Russia last year. The name of statue is The Motherland calls in Volgogard city. Individually I call this statue Venus because that woman has perfect beauty and she looks like a soldier with the sword in hand. It shows the beauty of power in the woman.

Essay body and Conclusion

I want to compare two images between Venus of Willendof and Venus de Milo. The similarities of them are symbol s of beauty in the woman. Although these beauties were showed up differently by appearance, however they are desirability about a perfect beauty. The beauty is associated with mystery when Venus of Willendof is faceless, obese. This statue is an important icon of prehistory about symbol of fertility, lucky charm to bring success in ancestors’ hunting. The imagine of Venus de Milo is the harmony of the lines of the figure, the noble pose, the poise of the small head upon the curved neck, the beauty of face, the soft color of stone . All unite in creating an impression of sensuous joy. The Venus de Milo is what all Greek women aspired to be: balanced and harmonious. The importance of creating Venus in sculpture is the social, political, and religious belief. The women might have had an esteem role in the society. The female figures denote the existence during the period of a prominent female deity identified usually as The Mother Goddess. On the basic of this assumption, it has been suggested that, women played a considerably more important, that possibly a matriarchy existed and women ruled.

Literature review

Venus de Milo

Rewrite - Introduction: Sculpture and Venus

How is importance of creating Venus in sculpture?
I think that is interesting question which I can find out the answer by reading Sculpture section in text book and watching series “How art made the world” which Professor introduced to us. In the text book, it gives me the conception about sculpture, carving on wood and stone which are the common carving material. In series “How art made the world”, I can see affection of sculpture to spirit and modern art, especially the sculptures of Venus are discovered in many places with marvelous beliefs. The social, political and religious beliefs created the valuable artworks that were highly appreciated. I am interested in sculpture because any artworks were created , they also have specific meanings. And I can reference about them more by watching above series, reading books in library. The new knowledge which I get from referencing helps me understanding deeply value of artworks in sculpture about images of Venus in thinking of people. The definitions, pictures, videos are really useful to help me answering above question, approaching to discovery magical beauties of Venus sculpture and understanding meaning of spirit when the people create Venus.

Sculpture of belief - Thu Ton

How did sculpture affect to belief of human being?

Annunciation – Thu Ton

The painting of the Annunciation was completed when he was only 21 years old. The specific painting which Leonardo used aerial perspective. He also used light and color perfectly in this work.