Art History

Art is a diverse range of human activities. One can classify art as a creation through imaginative or technical skill. The nature of art is intended to its creativity and its interpretation. Fromearly civilization art has been studied, some studies still don’t know its exact interpretation but its formation is intriguing. Art is important in world visual culture through the developments one hashad through art. Because of the duration of civilizations, more of their works have survived and more of their influences has been transmitted to other cultures and later times. Art has been createdsince prehistoric years and has evolved over the years from sculptures to architectural structures, as one can see in the Venus of Willendorf, Khafra and the Roman Coliseum techniques and developmentsadopted overtime.
One of arts first creations is the Nude Woman, or Venus of Willendorf, from the prehistoric period. The small limestone sculpture was found in modern day Austria and dates tocirca 25,000 B.C.E. The figure is a very small (about 4 ½ inches high) standing naked figure. The Venus exhibits a combination of many stylistic elements. It is naturalistic and organic in areas of thebody; exhibits full breasts, a round stomach, the pubic triangle, and chubby legs. She is a series of natural spheres. However it is abstract as well. The head is stylized with no face, so itrepresents a "type," perhaps representing the ideal of womanhood. The sculpture shows two small pin size holes on each side, theories are that women would wear as some sort of necklace to represent a god orworshiper. The figure is shown to be pregnant perhaps, to symbolize fertility and to bring good fortune in the fields and in human reproduction. Little is known about the sculpture, but life at thetime must have been a struggle for survival and to represent the core of the cycle of life. In today’s world, we have adopted this same worship figuring, many religious cultures wear a symbolized...