Ancient Americas: The Olmec Heads
The Ancients
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The Different Headdresses on the Monoliths
All of the facial features vary and if you took away all of the headdresses you would still be able to distinguish them which I think is one of the things that people connect to and really love about the heads. The omex balance naturalism with more abstract elements but it's easy to see the foundation of their art as something that is based in natural observation and is also based in the human world.
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