1. Shifting images of the human body.
Year 11 VA | Miss Tran

2. The Frames
Subjective
Structural
Cultural
Postmodern

3. Willendorf VS. De Milo:
Artist Unknown, The Venus of Willendorf, 28, ,000 BCE, Austria, carved from oolitic limestone.
Alexandros of Antioch, Venus de Milo (Aphrodite), BC, Marbile.

4. Columbian
Prehistoric
Egyptian
Egyptian
Greek

5. The Venus of Willendorf
Structural Frame Using the structural frame, write one paragraph about what you can visually see in this picture.
The medium.
The process of how it may have been made.
The style.
Identify the key features of the artwork, e.g. the shape and form, colour, and symbols.
Artist Unknown, The Venus of Willendorf, 28, ,000 BCE, carved from oolitic limestone.

6. Cultural Frame
The Venus of Willdendorf was found in Austria, and is believed that the figure was carved during the Paleolithic Period (“The Old Stone Age).
It is one of numerous Venus sculptures found throughout Europe.
Is believed that it was used as a totem of fertility because of the fact that it never had feet and does not stand on its own. You can also see that parts of the body associated with fertility and childbearing have been emphasized.
The braided headdress may imply that she was seen as beautiful and as a goddess.
Venus of Dolní Věstonice, the earliest discovered use of ceramics (29,000 BCE – 25,000 BCE).

7. Early Middle Ages
Ancient Greece
15th Century Art
Leonardo DaVinci
Sandro Botticelli

8. The Venus de Milo: A symbol of “beauty”

9. Venus de Milo
Structural Frame Using the structural frame, write one paragraph about what you can visually see in this artwork.
The medium.
The process of how it may have been made.
The style.
Identify the key features of the artwork, e.g. the shape and form, colour, and symbols.
Alexandros of Antioch, Venus de Milo (Aphrodite), BC, Greece, Marble.

10. Cultural Frame: Venus de Milo
Depicts Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans). Aphrodite’s were often portrayed half naked.
The statue reflects sculptural research during the late Hellenistic Period: classical in essence, with innovatory features such as the spiral composition, the positioning in space, and the fall of the drapery over the hips.
The difficulty of restoring this sculpture has left the artwork surrounded in mystery. It has been suggested that she may be leaning against a pillar or holding an object such as a bow, mirror or apple.
Alexandros of Antioch, Venus de Milo (Aphrodite), BC, Greece, Marble.