Venus of Willendorf

Venus of Willendorf
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Venus of Willendorf
Art can be used to represent various issues in the society, and authors or artists tend to use the images to provide meaning or generate interest in particular topics. The image can also act as symbols for larger issues that the author intends to discuss. Venus of Willendorf is one of the pictures that have existed for many years to develop understanding of the early life of the people who lived in an ice age. The art involves the prehistoric humans and their way of life. According to research, the art was carved more than 20,000 years ago and was most likely made by the hunters and gatherers.
The Venus of Willendorf image involved a statue of a woman with different features such as fatness and fertility suggesting that the people of the era would have been highly desirable. The image was designed by people who lived in harsh ice-age conditions that shaped their way of living. The image shows oversized breasts representing matters to do with successful reproduction. The image has a female figure representing their way of life in the local area where the image was believed to have been carved. The image that was carved in the Paleolithic period has cultural significance as well as a representation of the female characters that survived during the period (Liu, 2011). The image has no feet and does not stand to indicate that the women depended on others for their survival. Also, the presence of breast…