Willendorf

[ vil-uhn-dawrf ]

noun

1. a village in northeastern Austria, near Krems: site of an Aurignacian settlement where a limestone statuette Venus of Willendorf, 4.4 inches (11.2 centimeters) in height, was found.

Example Sentences

“It was moving to me,” Koons said on a phone call from Hydra, Greece, “because I always thought of the Balloon Dog as kind of a ritualistic work, something that could have a mythic quality to it, a little bit like a Trojan horse or Venus of Willendorf, where there would be some form of tribal community.”

From New York Times

Magenta globs of glass held up by wooden legs; electric-blue ceramic vessels shaped like the thighs of the Venus of Willendorf; folds of white glass creased like skin: The sculptures by Seattle artist Anna Mlasowsky are somewhat humanoid but entirely alien.

From Seattle Times

Jaci Oseguera and Debra Willendorf, however, would beg to differ.

From Seattle Times

The offending artworks include the Venus of Willendorf, a 25,000-year-old limestone figurine of a woman.

From New York Times

It’s a great, witty and, by now, classic image: a new-style Venus — related maybe to the Willendorf Venus — relaxing, drink in hand, on a sultry Southern California day off.

From New York Times