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| Determine the original context of a work |
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| What does an art historian do? |
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| Tries to fully undestand why a piece looks the way it does & also tries to understand why it was created. |
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| Why are dates important in art? |
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| Dates help determine the historyof a piece & its place in a historical context on a historical timeline. |
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- Looks at the visual aspects of a piece
- Not just a description
- Tries to understand what the artist is trying to tell us
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Basic Discussion Points of a Formal Analysis:
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- Iconography- Subject of a piece & study of that subject
- Color-Range, saturation,tone
- Line- Linear, Painterly
- Composition-How does the artistic brings all of the elements together & use them to convey his point or tell a story
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- Cave Art
- Paved the way for the prehistoric art
- Incomplete pictures
- Only speculation
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- Makapansgat Jasperite Pebble
- South Africa
- 30,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
- Waterworn facial features not considered art
*art must be altered by human |
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| Any region where humans lived where there was no writing |
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| Has no written description |
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- N. & S. America-15-16th Cent. CE
- Near East-8,000 BCE
- Egypt-4,500 BCE
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- 40,000 years ago
- Before, only useful objects created
- Around the time of the discovery of fire there was an art explosion
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- Animal, esp. Horse, subject of choice
- Profile art
- Humans hardly depicted, if/then mostly women with exaggerated signs of fertility
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- Human with Feline Head from Hohlenstein-Stadel
- 30,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
- About 1 ft - Huge for this time
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- Venus of Willendorf
- 25,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
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- Laussel Woman
- 25,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
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- La Madeleine Bison
- 12,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
- Spearthrower
- Reindeer Antler
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- Interlocking Ibexes Spear thrower
- 16,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
- Reindeer antler
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- Bison of Le Tuc D'Audoubert
- 12,000 BCE
- Largest known Sculpture in Paeolitic Period
- Clay
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- Altamira Cave
- Paintings of bison & 70 engravings of other animals
- 12,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
- Each bison 5 ft long
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- Hall of Bulls Lascaux, France
- 15,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
- Many animals
- Largest bull 11'6"
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- Rhino, wounded man, and bison
- Cave in Lascaux, France
- 15,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
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- Chauvet Cave
- 30,000 BCE or 15,000 BCE
- Oldest Painting (disputed)
- Paleolithic Period
- Painting on Limstone
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- Reconstruction of Mammoth bone house
- 16,000 BCE
- Paleolithic Period
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