Friday Pre Historic Art! Late Summer Reading Assignment Due Reminder: New students, complete your essays by next Friday!!! Homework: Ch.2 Worksheet Due Tuesday.
Prehistoric Art
LATIN TERMS TO KNOW “old” (Cro-Magnon man 1st urge to create images) PALEO “middle / between” (Glaciers receed & more temperate climate develops) MESO “new” (TIME WHEN MAN BECAME HERDSMEN & FARMERS) NEO LITH “stone”
Pebble resembling a human face from Makaspansgat South Africa ca. 3,000,000 B.C.E. reddish brown jasperite approximately 2 3/8 in. wide
Venus of Willendorf from 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 from Willendorf, Austria Woman holding bisson from Laussel, France 25,000-20,000 BCE
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) Lascaux, Dordogne, France ca. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. pigment on stone The most extensively decorated caves
Caves of Lascaux (France) Magnificent gallery known as the HALL OF BULLS
Caves of Lascaux (France) Denotes the CONCEPT of a BULL using 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 Spotted horses and negative hand imprints (Pech-Merle, Lot, France), c. 22,000 BCE
1st experiments with urban living Neolithic time: convergence to an agricultural society. Lots of trade (tools & weapons) Slide concept by William V. Ganis, PhD FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY For publication, reproduction or transmission of images, please contact individual artists, estates, photographers and exhibiting institutions for permissions and rights. Çatal Höyük Turkey ca. 6,000-5,900 B.C.E.
Deer Hunt detail of a wall painting from Level III Slide concept by William V. Ganis, PhD FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY For publication, reproduction or transmission of images, please contact individual artists, estates, photographers and exhibiting institutions for permissions and rights. 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. Slide concept by William V. Ganis, PhD FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY For publication, reproduction or transmission of images, please contact individual artists, estates, photographers and exhibiting institutions for permissions and rights.
Landscape with Volcanic Eruption Çatal Höyük, Turkey ca. 6150 watercolor copy of a wall painting
STONEHENGE (ca. 2550-1660 BCE) BIG STONES! 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