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Prehistory
Prehistoric Art
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Art History
12th Grade
08/31/2012

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Human with Feline Head

30,000 to 28,000 BCE.

Ivory

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Venus of Willendorf

28,000-25,000 BCE

Emphasis on pubic triangle and breasts.

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Venus of Hohle Fels

Approx. 35,000 BCE.

Limestone

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Two Bison Reliefs in a Cave

15,000-10,000 BCE.

Additive Sculpture of Clay

Low Relief

 

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Bison with turned head, fragmentary spear thrower

12,000 BCE

Reindeer horn.

Subtractive, low relief, sculpture

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Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the Altamira cave in Spain

12,000-11,000 BCE.

Two pigments: charcoal, clay, binder=animal fat

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Hall of Bulls

Lescauz, France

Ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE. 

Not just bison, other animals.

Several dots.

Very observant draw 3D on 2D

 

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Great Stone Tower

Built into the settlement wall, Jericho

Ca. 7,000-8,000 BCE.

20ft tall, made out of stone and mortar

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Schematic reconstruction drawing of Catal Hoyuk, Turkey

Ca. 6,000-5,900 BCE.

Defense

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Deer Hunt, detail of a wall painting

Catal Hoyuk, Turkey

Ca. 5750 BCE.

What people wanted on wall

People

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Landscape painting at Catal Hoyuk, Turkey

Ca. 6,150 Ce.

First landscape painting.

Birds eye view.

Volcano

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Japan

Jomon Pottery

10,500-300 BCE.

Distuinguishable by chord lines and lack of base

Put into the ground

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China

Yanshao Culture (Neolithic Chinese Culture)

4,000 BCE. Watered down clay, slip

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