How Art Made The World Episode 1: More Human Than Human

This journey started with the very first model of the human body, and that is the “Venus of Willendorf”. That sculpt is currently exhibited in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. It’s a little Venus figure with exaggerated breasts, hips, and genital organs. Although some people state that this model represented fertility, the point investigated is how the artist neglected other parts of the body. This figure is not unique since other Venus figures with alike exaggerations and lack of similar features have found in Europe and Russia as well. Prof. Ramachandran who is a famous neuroscientist (This was the point where I could attract my boyfriend’s attention) search the answers of this exaggeration by a basic experiment. They examine the herring gulls! They found out that chicks are stimulated by the red line on their parent’s beaks. And further, they could see that these chicks are overstimulated by simulating a beak with additional lines. So, Prof. Ramachandran implies that the corresponding neurological manner stimulated our ancestors, which is why they exaggerated certain features of fertility over other organs such as legs and arms. <a href="https://medium.com/@shirefungus/how-art-made-the-world-more-human-than-human-episode-1-778170e1ea44">Click Here</a>