Bucking the trend as the Stone Age entered the Bronze Age during the third millennium BC the advanced civilization in Cypress, Greece was producing these masterpiece sculptures of idols. This one is in the Louvre in Paris and you can take a tour around the female head at this link on their site.
I was not familiar with Cycladic Art until the Times” Roberta Smith referenced it in a review of the Bill Traylor show at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Now I just type “Cycladic Art” in a google search and while away hours looking at the forms, every bit as exciting as modern contemporary art. I am a bit of a Roberta Smith groupie and would follow her anywhere.
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