Sunday, June 12, 2011

Stone Age Sculpture

This little article is fairly recent. I would date it somewhere in the 60's or 70's. There's no date so I am going entirely on the age of the book it was found in and how old the paper looks. I know, terribly unreliable but there you are. The translation of the article is below and starts out by stating that art has not changed much in the last 7,000 years. I mostly agree with that statement except that our gal here has got some, how shall we say, interesting curves? You decide, are we still portraying women like this? Wow, this could really start a debate. Onto the article.
If anyone believes that visual art has changed dramatically over the past seven thousand years, they should take a closer look at this 38 cm tall woman sculpture. It has just been excavated in Donja Branjevina, an archaeological place 150 km from Yugoslavia's head city Belgrade.
The place is the oldest known farming community in the history of European civilization. The similarity between the sensational discovery and more cubist figurative statuettes from the beginning of this century is quite striking.
The little lady with the large end may not have been above the earth's surface since the early Stone Age.
Under the photo of the sculpture it says:
Woman sculpture from the Early Stone Age have been found in Yugoslavia

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