A towering, human-like figure carved from wood ... "If you come closer to the sculpture, you will notice that the 'body' is decorated by geometric ornamentation and a few small human faces." ...

Other types of distortion appear in the abstracting of bodies, both human and animal, to geometric or ... he know from tradition that a sculpture of an ancestor figure must conform to a certain ...

The exhibit will display 40 pieces from the museum's permanent collection – each exploring the evolution of the human figure in sculpture. Depictions span from the late fifteenth century to ...

What it is: The world's oldest known wooden sculpture Where it was ... It depicts a human figure and features an array of geometric motifs etched into the statue, including zigzag patterns ...

with geometric motifs and several human faces carved into it. The date makes the idol "the world's earliest wooden monumental sculpture," a team of researchers led by Thomas Terberger, an ...

At first glance, the pieces in this show seem more abstract, more geometric - but if you take ... him a grounding in the importance of the human figure. His work shares the same reverence for ...

MORE In its celebration of 100 years of Keshav Malik on his birth centenary at the IIC in Delhi, 23 sculptors come together and amongst them there are 7 that trace the human figure/face ...

A 35,000-year-old ivory carving of a busty woman found in a German cave may be the oldest known sculpture of the human form ... whose team discovered the figure in September.

The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture is on at Hayward Gallery, South Bank, SE1 until 7 September. Tickets are £10.90 for adults, concessions available.

A remarkable ivory carving is arguably the oldest sculpture of a human figure yet found, scientists say. The distorted object, which portrays a woman with huge breasts, big buttocks and exaggerated ...