GREEK ART
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Greek art is a very important in the upper paleolithic period. Art objects and artifacts are
important sources of information about civilization prior to written history. The number of
artworks lost because of their impermanence can only be imagined, since many were created by
using organic materials subject to destruction by fire, flood, and decay. By comparison, objects
made from metal or stone are more likely to survive The Aegean basin was a center of artistic
activity from early times see AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS the ravages of time and nature. They
too, however, are susceptible to deterioration and may bring to our eyes a decidedly different
appearance than they possessed originally. Among the earliest objects that have survived are
stone figures archaeologists have given the title of Venus of willendorf a small stone figure
found in Austria, dating from 20,000 B.C.. I think it is a symbolic sculpture most probably
designed to represent and call forth human fertility. In many early civilization, people associated
fecundity with the female rather than the male and chose to represent females in their ceremonial
images. The reduction of detail and the exaggeration of aspects of the human from in the
twentieth-century sculpture, in which a realistic representation of from is likewise not the artist's
primary goal..