Post 2 "Venus of Willendorf"

            Being of the Venus of Willendorf at 11.1 centimeters in height and aged to ~20k-24k BCE it is quite detailed but only what seemed to be in specific areas. The piece was discovered in 1908 by Josef Szombathy and obviously not of the region since it had been created from limestone which is not native to the area. What got me thinking while viewing this sculpture is, where is the face, where are the arms, why so much detail in sexual spots, and why the big beanie/hat on her head. In these questions some were answered, as it could be that the arms were just taken off somehow and the face was just covered. As for the others they remained unanswered. In this reading I had felt like this sculpture was merely just a doll like toy for children probably since it is so small. While reading I had came about another interesting thing being of it is a sculpture of a woman, they were usually not viewed as being good enough to be painted or sculpted back in those days. Basically in other words they did not receive as much attention or status as the men did. Being of this sense the sculpture gained quite a bit of attention to figure out when it was created and why. When researching Luce Passemard had created the term steatopygous, which is quite the word when trying to say it, but none the less it was to relate to be racial to women tribes of Africa like the Bushmen. Another assumption that got to me was the fact that it was a piece created to tease fat women of the age. The thing that I asked myself was that people, not just women, could be fat back in that time? It had to be a tease of a rich family being able to eat quite a bit in order to gain that much fat on her body but then again perhaps those women in the day just ate the wrong food to get them a lot of body fat. However, since the model was quite big breasted it could’ve just been a goddess, not just a woman. What pointed to this was it was created in a different area anyways and had similarities to the Greek “Goddess of all” or the “Mother of all”. So in conclusion it could’ve just came from a different country while some people went to Australia and happen to drop or leave it while there. 

Intro about... well... me

Hey my name is Jason Kraght I am 22 and a student at CWU for a BA in Graphic Design. I'm taking this class of Art 235 to get the basic classes over with to get into the more advanced classes for graphic design. As for me I am a playful guy in the sense I like to have fun from time to time being happy and getting others to be happy as well. I'm a christian and love to hang with friends from Chi Alpha being my good guys on campus but I'd like to see some people from my group so we could get together and work upon the assignments that we'll have for this class and/or quarter. Anyways that's the basics of me, contact me if yah wanna do anything for the class.