I'd say that's not what "abnormous" means, but I like your implied definition better.
You like it?
It's very generous.
I just think they're neat
Yes yes, “ah tah.”
Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott hypothesize that the figurines may have been created as self-portraits by women.[12]This theory stems from the correlation of the proportions of the statues to how the proportions of women's bodies would seem if they were looking down at themselves, which would have been the only way to view their bodies during this period. They speculate that the complete lack of facial features could be accounted for by the fact that sculptors did not own mirrors.
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Yeah, I saw that rebuttal and it seemed pretty strange to me.
They couldn't have been sculpting from their own perspective, because they technically had access to viewing themselves from a third-person perspective?
We technically had access to drawing with linear perspective all along, but somehow until only a few hundred years ago, this is the best we could do:
It just seems like a very modern-biased way of thinking about depiction. Mapping objective reality (rather than subjective perception) into art is a relatively new concept.
I've always liked me a big woman, but those ancient boys may have liked too big of a woman. Who am I to judge, though? Probably sign of a real good harvest, and I bet that made everyone horny back then.
Up until just a few decades ago the hardest thing for people to get was food, not housing as it is (for most of the people on Lemmy) today.
Because of this, being fat was seen in various societies as a sign of wealth or beauty, sometimes both. As late as a hundred years ago the US and Great Britain had "fat man societies". Here's an article on that:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/07/469571114/the-forgotten-history-of-fat-men-s-clubs
We can't really know why the "fertility idol" sculptures look that way, but if you're an early human spending your life going through cycles of feast and famine as you follow prey animals sticking around with the fat person you ran into was a good way to stay alive.
Maybe women used to be more gigantic back them and we're nerfed across time or something. I unno. I am no xenobiologist
They were most likely made by women, the proportions make sense when you think of a woman looking down at herself. It is just that when the first men to uncover the artifacts looked at them they said "wow, these were obviously made by men and are ancient porn!"
There are ones that have been found at various stages of pregnancy so were likely an educational tool.
Our biological weakness for an ample bosom transcends the ages.
Big booba good
I’d totally watch a documentary on simps throughout history. It would be hilarious!
I'm using abnormous from here on out
I've just found it in the dictionary! Shut my mouth!
"art"
Motif*
Your turkey appears to be missing it's head
The carving just looks like a whole chicken with lemons under the breast skin. 🤤
Aint technology great?
I had to look up the word adnormously. Idk if that word fits nothing irregular about big ole titties
AI generated images are not art though. Image =/= art.
Define art? I once saw a piece of fruit in a cage that was supposedly art. All seems like bullshit to me.
It's not art if it's not handmade by a human
/s
Been thinking about it quite a bit
I've come to the conclusion that to me, art is a play on your senses.
A painting plays with your sight
Music plays with your hearing
Food plays with your taste
Dance plays with your sense of balance
Poems plays with your mind
Art is the conscious use of imagination to create something with the intention of it to be appreciated, experienced, and/or evoke an emotion in the observer. It requires one or two way communication between the creator and the person experiencing it.
AI generated images aren't art because there is no conscious creator who intends to create an experience for the viewer. If a future AI is conscious and self aware enough to have a will of its own, and will use it's own creativity to create something to be experienced or appreciated by the viewer, we would have AI art, but until then these aren't art.
Also, the banana taped to a wall or a fruit in a cage is art, though it doesn't mean it's good or not. Art that sucks is still art.
I bet you a urinal that you’re wrong.
They're absolutely art. The fact that we're arguing over it at all is proof enough of it. It's a new medium.
Absolutely agree. No human made, not art.
I'm open to the idea that should a sentient AI be made in the future, with complex emotions and desires, then that AI could create art. As it is right now, it is completely artless.
