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| Paleolithic (old Stone Age) Art was between what years? |
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| Women were far common subjects than men in paleolithic art, however... |
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| animals not humans dominated the Paleo art field. Paintings of Humans on cave walls were not full representations. |
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| resembled a human face, from Makapansgat, South Africa, ca. BCE. Reddish Brown. not a piece of art, something that was created by earth, that looks like a face. |
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| Some of the earliest paintings yet discovered come from Africa. The Oldest African paintings were. |
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| Adam and Gods Hands Creation of Adam was created by... |
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| Michelangelo elevates god and artist. |
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| what do hands represent. extension of both |
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| Physical/ mental abilities. The humans hand can do what no other animal can do. |
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-Apollo 11 cave
-scientists working in Namibia between the years 1969-1972. found fragments of stone plaques of four or five animals. horses with lines 23,000 BCE. |
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| What were the most common animals to paint. |
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| bison, mammoth, ibex and horse. but the horse were the most popular. mostly in the profile fashion. you could see the entire horse. |
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| -Hohlenstein-Stadel -One of the earliest sculptures made from mammoth ivory, dated back from 30,000 BCE. Germany. it has a feline head and human body. these creatures were sometimes called sorcerers. very important to there makers because it was a very complicated process to make. standing one foot tall. |
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| -Venus of Willendorf -Willendorf, Austria, 28,000-25,000 BCE. sculptors always made women nude. when they first found the first venus they named the sculptures after the venus the goddess of love because she was normally depicted in the nude. However, these women in the paleo time did not represent deities of any kind. Preponderance (the mere number and importance), women ensured the survival of a species. -did not carve any facial features. -huge breasts. -fertility images. -female form, not a specific woman. |
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| A relief sculpture is a type of sculpture that is found on a wall or made integral to a wall’s surface. |
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-The Laussel Women -France -
(25,000-20,000)
is one of the earliest relief sculptures known. -1and half feed tall -one hand on stomach the other holding a bison horn. |
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| Altamira, Spain was where... |
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| the first examples of of cave paintings were found by an amateur archaeologists in 1875-1879 Spain. -Don Marcelino was exploring the cave with his daughter Maria, -she found bison paintings on the ceilings. 15,000-10,000 BCE. -13to14,000 years old. |
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| -Pech-Merle, France. (22,00-18,000) -hands(possibly signatures of the artists) accompanied by spotted horses. |
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Dec 18 1994. Panel of horses.
cave bears, paw prints, hand stencils mammals lions/ cattle/ ingrains of owls. -Panel of horses/ over 300 animals. -30,000-28,000 BCE. -possibly the worlds oldest paintings . |
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| art was started in the beginning of Paleolithic era, not the end. |
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| Hall of Bulls Lascaux, France 15,000-30,000BCE. ( the largest painting in Lascaux france) no two paintings are the same. |
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| for the most part is functional. -also known as parietal art. -usually spears. - |
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| -Most famous mobile art. -Kostienki venus russia |
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| -venus of dolni Vestonice -czech republic. -28,000BCE. -could possibly mean good luck charm/ fit in palm of hand/ status symbol. |
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| -venus of hohle fels cave -germany, discovered in sep 2008 (40,000-35,000 BCE. |
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| -Venus of Savignano -Italy, looks like a women but it has a penis. |
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| has a very small head the torso is circular, with a diamond shape body. small non descriptive head. |
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| Venus of Lespungue is different because it has a larger head that seams to be nodding. |
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| Abstract lines and dots are |
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| more common than animal art. |
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| maybe cave wall was the landscape. |
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| Paleolithic (old stone age of art) time period. |
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| Images of negative hands. |
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| El Castillo, Spain. (40,000) |
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| Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in a well cave lascaux, france 15,000-13,000. |
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| Bison, ceiling of Altamira, Spain, 15,000-12,000 |
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| The " Sorcerer" from Les Trios, France |
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| Lascaux, Hall of Bulls 15,000-13,000 BCE |
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| Chauvet, Cave, Panel with horses, rhinos, aurochs, France 32,000-30,000 BC? |
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| Spear-thrower, from Bruniquel, France |
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| Venus, from Dolni Vestonice |
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| Venus of Lespugue 25,000-20,000 BC |
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| Venus of Willendorf 28,000-25,000 BC |
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| Venus of Laussel, 25,000-20,000 BC |
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| Acheulean hanD-axe, Palaioastro, Greece 200,000 BC -The earliest Acheulean handaxe yet found is from the Kokiselie 4 site in the Rift valley of Kenya, dated about 1.76 million years ago, as reported in Nature in September of 2011. |
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| Prehistory is broken into three different parts. |
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-Paleolithic (2,000,00-10,000 BCE): man created stone cutting tools first appearance of art is mostly in caves.
-Mesolithic (10,000-8000BCE): climate begins to warm up and man left the cave.
-Neolithic (8000-2000BCE) New stone age man builds permanent structures and domesticates animals. |
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