Th female Body

The female Body by Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund was made with the mediums Terracotta and paint with the dimensions 11 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. It was made in  ca. 3500-3400 B.C.E. The peice is representational and stylized.Most of the status were made in the Predynastic Period.  "Statuettes of this period, the legs are usually not articulated and the faces are beaklike."(online blurb from the Brooklyn Museum) As seen in the photo the figure's hips are exaggerated the rest of the body smaller compared, small breasts and small waist. "The symbolism, function, and identity of the figure are not certain. However, similar female figures painted on Predynastic vessels appear to be goddesses, because they are always larger than the male "priests" shown with them."  this era women in paintings nude or not were stylized to what man wanted.  John Berger beleives that art was almost always shown with the female body modified and portrayed the way the viewer, as in the man, sees the ideal female body as. Berger stated once "She is not naked as she is, she is naked as the spectator sees her". The female body is shown so much in art because in the society we live in is run y mostly men, we as women is supposed to stay quiet and form our bodies and our looks into the idealized women bodies shown in paintings and sculptures and many other ways including photography in a magazine re modified with Photoshop.