1. AGENDA  Return Summer Essays  Grades are uploaded  Art Essay debrief  Lab: Virtual Tour Cave Art ANNOUNCEMENTS  No homework – you’ve earned it!

2. AGENDA  Intro to Prehistoric Art (log book)  Picasso Question  Sister Wendy Video  What did you learn about prehistoric art?  Key Ideas  Sketches (pick up one slide sheet) ANNOUNCEMENTS  Virtual Tour Assignment due: Thursday at beginning of the period

3.  At your tables: Based on your knowledge of the Lascaux Caves, what do you think Picasso said the first time he went down into Lascaux?  Talk…select the best phrase! Be ready to share it out!  After Sister Wendy video…I’ll ask you again.

4.  Sister Wendy said…  “Art changes but it doesn’t get better…  “Art starts at the top”  Discuss at your tables why these two statements apply to Prehistoric Art.

10. “The Sistine Chapel of Prehistory”

12.  “The Sistine Chapel of Prehistory”

16. Once I arrived in the great hall accompanied by my young heroes, I uttered cries of admiration at the magnificent sight that met my eyes.... Thus I visited the galleries and remained just as enthusiastic when confronted with the unexpected revelations which increased as I advanced. I had literally gone mad.

18.  Earliest surviving works are cave paintings and portable sculptures  Original intention?  Stonehenge – ability of prehistoric people to build elaborate religious structures  Post and lintel system

19.  coined in 1871 – British anthropologist  First spiritual intuitions by prehistoric beings  Belief that all things, both living an inanimate, are inhabited by a spirit (soul)  Animals, plants, rivers, and mountains, even stones – all contained what might be called a soul  Eventually evolved into polytheism  Concept soul – Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam

20.  “Megalithic” architecture (“large” “stone”)  Post and lintel system  Astronomical calendar?  Likely an important site for major public ceremonies, possibly planting or harvest rituals

22.  Cave people didn’t live in caves where they painted  Artists used INTELLECT and IMAGINATION  lst people invented representational art  Leisure time – 15-20+ hours per week  “Impressionistic” look at animals  Use of color: black, yellow, red, white  Art of caves is of extraordinary quality

23.  Anamorphosis  Deliberate distortion of figures so that when observed from below they appear properly in proportion

24.  Why they painted the art?  Art for the sake of art?  Figure drawn to influence real animals?  Symbols – primarily sexual ones?  Education?  No single explanation suffices!

25.  Art is about being human!  Art expresses all that is best in us  Art may change, but it does NOT get better!

26.  1940-1963 over 100,000 annual visitors  Impact? ▪ Carbone/dioxide ▪ Raising temperatures ▪ Water vapor – condensation ▪ Fetid air- people fainted  1972 – full-sized replica  $800,000 = Lascaux II  300,000 visitors a year visit

27.  Lascaux Caves  Dordogne, France  15,000-10,000 BCE

29.  Lascaux Cave  Dordogne, France  15,000 – 10,000 BCE

31.  From Jericho  Archaeological museum in Vienna, Austria  25,000-20,000 BCE

33.  Limestone  Height: 4 3/8”  Museum of Natural History – Vienna, Austria  25,000-20,000 BCE

36. She’s big as a man’s fist, Big as a black-pepper shaker Filled with gris-gris dust, Like two fat gladiolus bulbs Grown into a burst of twilight. Lumpy & fertile, earthy And egg-shaped, she’s pregnant With all the bloomy hosannas

37. Of love-hunger. Beautiful In a way that forces us to look At the ground, this squat Venus in her braided helmet Is carved from a hunk of limestone Shaped into a blues singer. In her big smallness She makes us kneel.

39.  c. 3100 BCE to 539 BCE (fall of Babylon)  Babylon, the Hanging Gardens, the Tower of Babel, etc.  “Inventions” of the city-state, formal religion, writing, mathematics, law, architecture, urban planning, relief sculptures…

40.  c. 3150 BCE – 30 BCE (fell to Roman Empire)  Literature, medical science, mathematics, hieroglyphics, the Great Sphinx, pyramids, mummies, Queen Nefertiti, King Tut!!  Unified state for three millennia. Static culture. Art does not change.