Sentences with phrase «fertility symbols»

Note to Enrique Juncosa [Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art] Drawings concerned with fertility symbols.

Those expecting a display of fertility symbols, fetish objects, kinky clothing or sex aids down the ages...

In 1517 a Spanish expedition led by Francisco Fernández de Córdoba arrived on the island, and found an abundance of clay figurines depicting women, most probably fertility symbols.

Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture: solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.

Ms. Moyer's work has been compared to that of abstract painters like Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski and Arthur Dove — but also to that of representational models like Georgia O'Keeffe, and her proto - feminist iconography, or ancient fertility symbols.

Tongue - in - cheek investigations of Herstory and Judy Chicago's «central core» imagery are playfully tweaked in large paintings that place abstracted fertility symbols within flat, poster - like landscapes worthy of a 1960s Supergraphic.

Mothers and children were encouraged to make homemade decorations shaped like «Odin's Sun Wheel» and bake holiday cookies shaped like a loop (a fertility symbol).

Eggs are a fertility symbol in many cultures throughout history.

Eggs are symbols of «The Universe and the Great World Serpent» (i.e. the Goddess), and Rab bits are fertility symbols.

Conard speculates from the exaggerated sexual features that the 6 - centimetre - high figurine might have been a fertility symbol.

Around A.D. 1100, Emerson says, the elite of Cahokia seem to have co-opted or codified the fertility symbol, raising it to an unprecedented stature that became a kind of brand identity for the budding metropolis.

Brought to mind was the Venus of Wllendorf — the famous pre-historic figurine, interpreted as a fertility symbol, which has no face, just enormous breasts and vulva.

One of her signature works, Strawberry Sun, a six - by - twelve - foot Guernica - like composition from 2016, brings together deities and laborers, cartoon elements and fertility symbols, in a -LSB-...]