Michael C Carlos Museum Essay

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The museum that I selected to attend was the Michael C. Carlos Museum on Thursday March 12, 2015. The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an art museum located in Atlanta on the historic courtyard of Emory University's main campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest ancient art collections in the Southeast, with items from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa and the ancient Americas. With the reaction of WOW this is an awesome gem! When arriving at the museum I was greeted with beautiful art and ancient pieces from all over the world. The museum is intimate and quite with three floors to the museum The first piece that caught my eyes was, the Powerful Women in Costa Rica. The two large, finely made statues represent powerful female witchdoctors. Seating with their hands on their knees in meditation, their bulging eyes indicates trance. Both shows their bulging bellies of pregnancy, communicating that their power lies equally in female procreativity.…show more content…
Here the stages of life can be traced in the ceramic art of ancient Colombia, which highlights images of females from sexual maturity, through pregnancy, childbearing, and in their full mature ability−sitting on a bench is symbolic for being a shamanic leader and or chief. Giving birth to life and holding onto it were both considered miraculous and noteworthy in ancient times− maternal death during childbirth and infant mortality rates were high, and lifespans were short. Most people did not live long enough to get wrinkles. The pregnant woman holds her hand to the sides of her swollen belly. This is a familiar human gesture but also serves to frame and bring out her fullness. This pose is also found in the art of lower Central America, Colombia’s neighbors and trading partners to the north. Even without being pregnant, a woman’s plumpness was a positive characteristic, since biologically a woman needs a certain amount of body fat to reproduce effectively and to nurse

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