In the first in the series of BBC programs ‘How Art Made the World’, it was suggested that unrealistic representation of the human body was due to the principle of exaggeration. So what is the principle of exaggeration? I understand that the principles of exaggeration in this case are the exaggeration or the opposite of certain body parts in order to manipulate and please the viewer/audience. One of the examples on the program was the ‘Venus of Willendorf’, a statuette made by early man and exaggerates the breasts, stomach and bum, at the same time as rejecting the face, arms and feet.
To prove further that the exaggeration of certain body parts produce unrealistic human bodies I am going to take an image from the following four categories that uses the principles of exaggeration.
