Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Practise Post #5 - Citing others source

The "Three female figures" from the late Helladic period (IIIA) of the Mycenaean culture, are a very interesting clay artwork. This picture funny, because when you look at these picture you don't see no hands but if you look at it at the side-side you can see the hands. These pictures look like bird heads on humans body with two of the artworks on circular bodys. The other one has a normal body but it has a hat/crown on his head.  According to these picture "These terracotta female figurines are referred to as phi , tau, or psi figurines, for their resemblance in shape to those Greek letters", where the phi are 10.8cm and the tau is 10.5cm. The information also tells you that most of the artworks at that time were female, and that they represent goddesses.
For better information about the these figures you can look at these web site:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/35.11.16-.18

2 comments:

  1. These figures are very visually interesting, with the stripes. The background story, that they represent the Greek letters, makes them even more interesting!

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  2. It is very interesting and it looks funny but again i like it. It is very different than others.

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