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• Pre Historic Art!

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Prehistoric Art

LATIN TERMS TO KNOW

PALEO

MESO

NEO

LITH

“old” (Cro-Magnon man 1st urge to create images)

“middle / between” (Glaciers receed & more temperate climate develops)

“new” (TIME WHEN MAN BECAME HERDSMEN & FARMERS)

“stone”

Pebble resembling a human face

from Makaspansgat South Africa

ca. 3,000,000 B.C.E.reddish brown jasperiteapproximately 2 3/8 in.

wide

Venus of Willendorffrom Willendorf, Austria

ca. 28,000-25,000 B.C.E.

limestone

4 1/4 in. high

cult of the fertility goddess/ lack of

naturalistic rendering

Woman holding bisson from Laussel, France 25,000-20,000 BCE

Woman from Willendorf, Austria

Two Bison reliefs made of clay (each about 2’ long)

Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France, ca. 15000-10000 BCE

Bison with turned head (La Madeleine), c. 12,000 BCE, reindeer horn

“SPECIAL CAVES”….

The Oldest?

The First One Found?

The Most Extensive?

Chauvet Cave (France)

Altamira (Spain)

Lascaux (France)

The Chauvet Cave Discovered in 1994 – named after the

exploration leader, Jean-Marie Chauvet

Using c-14 dating, found that these were 15,000

years OLDER than Altamira!!

Lions and bears depicted, but never part

of the Paleolithic diet

Animals are depicted NATURALISTICALLY

Caves of ALTAMIRA (Spain)

Discovered in 1879 – some of the first discovered

Were originally considered fakes, but mineral deposits

would’ve taken 1000s of years to accumulate

Mostly Bison from a profile view

Bison at Altamira (Santander, Spain),

c. 12,000-11,000 BCE

Caves of Lascaux (France)

The most extensively decorated caves

Lascaux, Dordogne,

Franceca. 15,000-

13,000 B.C.E.

pigment on stone

Caves of Lascaux (France)

Magnificent gallery known as the HALL OF BULLS

Caves of Lascaux (France)

Denotes the CONCEPT of a BULLusing TWISTED PERSPECTIVE

Caves of Lascaux (France)

art as a tool for survival/ art for use in rituals/ twisted perspective/ figure ground relationship/

naturalistic renderings

Spotted horses and negative hand imprints (Pech-Merle, Lot, France), c. 22,000 BCE

Çatal Höyük

Turkey

ca. 6,000-5,900 B.C.E.

1st experiments with urban living

Neolithic time: convergence to an agricultural society.

Lots of trade (tools & weapons)

Deer Hunt detail of a wall painting

from Level III

Çatal Höyük, Turkey

ca. 5,750 B.C.E.

Çatal Höyük

Turkey

ca. 6,000-5,900 B.C.E.

Landscape with Volcanic Eruption

Çatal Höyük, Turkeyca. 6150

watercolor copy of a wall painting

STONEHENGE(ca. 2550-1660 BCE)

Built in Salisbury Plain, England

Created in 3 phases over a 1,000 years

Keyed up with astronomical events, such as the Summer Solstice… when the Sun rises

directly over the Heel Stone as seen from the Altar Stone

BIG STONES!

megaliths/ cromlech/ post and lintel construction/ heelstone/

cromlech

dolmen