Първобитни модели за изобразяване на женската форма
Prehistoric Models for Representing the Female Form

Summary/Abstract: In our modern age, there are an enormous amount of forms of depiction of the female figure that have been accumulated on the basis of thousands of years of artistic experience. To make a general analysis on the all available depiction models and to put them in order would be an extremely difficult task because of the huge volume of material. Instead of using the present as a starting point we will return to the very beginning to consider the question of the first artistic manifestations of humanity and its “purest“ understanding of the Female. Our purpose is to trace which combinations of forms makes up the notion of a female figure in a period when one relies solely on subjective sensation and a primary understanding of the world and nature. Following the approach from the general to the specific, according to the appearance of the female figures we can distinguish characteristic groups with different combinations of proportions and sizes in the ratio of head, torso, hips, and legs. Each figure individually recreates the idea of the female gender, but there are enough repetitions to bring out a few basic models.

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