"Aphrodite of Kindos," and the "Yakshi" sculptures based on

their religious uses or their respective time periods, which

range from 25,000 B.C. to 30 A.D. However, it is safe to say

that the female nude has been around for a very long time.

"The Venus of Willendorf" depicts a faceless woman with

large legs, stomach, and breasts. Her arms rest atop her

breasts, and she was more than likely used in fertility

rituals. The body is extremely rounded with very little

definition. In contrast the "Aphrodite of Kindos,"

4th-century B.C., shows the great detail of the evolving

Greek artists of this time period. She has ample hips and

curvaceous breasts. Her hour glass figure is accentuated by

her muscular definition and detailed face and hair. She

flows with grace as she leaves the bath in this depiction to

be seen "in the round," or from all angles. Her beauty is

timeless and still admirable today. The "Yakshi" sculpture

has been somewhat corroded by the hands of time, but is

still shown to be a quality piece. This deity of fertility

has large birthing hips and voluptuous breasts. Her body too

depicts movement that invites one to view her from a variety

will their insights become all too frighteningly real and

question, "Who will be the next Goya and Daumeir and when

structure, and structural fluidity and adaptation of nature.

their demise we should yet again not once but twice face

comparable about the three is their curvature. Even though

may be conveyed in such an explicit and timeless manner,

the atrocities of war and the ramifications it had upon

complimentary colors, as well as, very bold primaries to

even more ironic. As time passes we all to often must

seems even more fitting. The fact that so shortly after

from a blend between the three and two-dimensional fields.

through the Napoleonic Wars and in Spain during the French

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