Realism: Man tries to render the appearance of the things he sees.
Abstraction: Man strives to impose his own mental concepts on the matter.
The Aurignacian Venuses
The work of a civilisation extending along the edge of the northern glaciers from the Gulf of Gascony to the heart of Siberia. They represent the female body. They depict it's appearance but it has been enormously modified by the application of the laws which had manifested themselves in simple decoration.
-the artist developed everything that suggested regularity, symmetry and even geometry.
- the Venus of Lespugue conforms rigorously to the lozenge-shape.
Without ceasing to reflect it's structure the appearance of the human being is organised so as to be doubly symmetrical, both at a vertical and horizontal axis.
My Notes:
- this is probably why magazines photoshop etc an innate want for symmetry
- babies like symmetrical faces
- people are more physically attracted to symmetrical faces
- clothes and design often reflects nature as there's a lot of symmetry in nature (plants and animals) which is pleasing to our eye- contented.
- Wonky things unnerve us. Unstable/something wrong/abnormal.
- 2 eyes, nostrils, sets of teeth, ears, eyelashes, lips, arms, legs- only thing not symmetrical on animals and humans is belly button- because this is where the umbilical tube was - but yet it was almost symmetrical as it is completely central.
- foetus in the womb - meiosis and mitosis of cells - always splitting - symmetry from the beginning.
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