1. GKR 1053
Design History
Ms. Salmiah Abdul Hamid

2. Learning Units Week 9: 90’s / Millennium
Week 10: Material Culture Studies and Design Histories
Week 11: Towards a Cultural History of Design
Week 12 : Group activities and discussions
Week 13 : Group Project Presentation / Discussion Week
Week 14 : Group Project Presentation / Discussion Week

3. Learning Unit Art of the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras

4. Paleolithic era refers to the “old stone age”, during which human beings were making tools of stone
In art, the Paleolithic era is marked by cave paintings and drawing of animals
Hunted animals were for food and that the paintings were some type of ritual related to the hunt

5. Cave Painting Lascaux France

6. It has also been suggested that the paintings represent primitive calendars or almanacs,
“coming age” ceremonies, records of tribal migration, mystic paintings during a shamanistic trance.
The art can be categorized as being “public,” – created to be viewed by anyone in the area, such as a public monument, territorial marker, or gravestone

7. Cave Painting 3

8. Methods and Materials:
Paleolithic artists made objects from a variety of materials.
They made simple forms by modifying natural objects – making holes in teeth, shells, and bones, or carving them to form beads or pendants, beads, bracelets
The animal figures are both naturalistic and stylized, often showing the details that suggest keen familiarity with the animal painted or drawn.

9. Woman of
Willendorf
Carved

10. Woman of
Willendorf
Carved

11. Cave painting 2 Chauvet cave, France

12. Cave Painting, Chauvet cave, France

13. Rock Art at a cliff face at Huashan, Southwest China

14. Ubirr Rock,
Arnehm Land,
Australia

15. The blending of colors seen here, such as in the horse's mane blending into the horse's neck, may suggest the paint was blown or 'spit' onto the wall.

16. Highly sophisticated / Sense of movement suggested through posture

17. “Neolithic” refers to the “new old stone age”
Began when humankind first developed agriculture. Human were settling down into agrarian societies
Explore some key concepts of civilization – namely, religion, measurement, the rudiments of architecture and art
Animal husbandry

18. Stone Tools

19. People settling into permanent communities
Generally reflecting the use of tools with some use of metals
The prime medium of Neolithic art was pottery
Other important artistic expression were statuary of the universal worshipped Mother Goddess and Megalithic stone monuments.
Megalith( Prehistoric stone monuments) are found in the Neolithic from Spain to the British Isles and Poland

20. Sesklo (ancient town, Greece) Neolithic Settlement 6850 BC.
This settlement gives its name to the first Neolithic culture of Europe, which inhabited Thessaly and parts of Greek Macedonia.

21. Neolithic Pottery

22. Neolithic Rock Art

23. European Neolithic Art

24. Maya Neolithic Relief Art

25. Megalith( Prehistoric stone monuments) are found in the Neolithic from Spain to the British Isles and Poland
Contemporary Megalith

26. Contemporary Megalith

27. The most well-known is Stonehenge, where the main structures date from the early Bronze age. Most have religious significance.
It ended when the discovery of bronze led to the more advanced Bronze Age.

28. Neolithic Brodgar Stones

29. Neolithic Seated Figure
Ireland Neolithic Figurine

30. Bronze Neolithic bull figure
Contemporary Golden
Neolithic bull figure

31. Neolithic pull toy
Modern pull toy

32. Collect bile Chinese Old Bronze Vehicle Bird Plate

33. Romania Neolithic Figurine
Contemporary Romania Neolithic Figurine

34. What kinds of art were created during this time?
The “new” art to emerge from this area were weaving, architecture, the construction of megaliths and increasingly stylized pictographs that are well on their way to becoming writing.
What kinds of art were created during this time?

35. Art of the Paleoolithic and Neolithic Eras
KEY EVENTS
ARCHITECTURE
VISUAL ARTS
MUSIC
33,000 BC Paleolithic Period ( Old stone age)
Cro-Magnon peoples,
Culture of hunters and food gatherers
10,000 – 4,000 Neolithic Period ( New old stone age)
Culture of food gatherers and animal husbandry.
House of bricks and mud, wattle and dab construction.
7700 – 5700 first cities appear at Catal Huyuk (Turkey),
Jerico (Palestine)
15,000 – 10,000
Cave Paintings and carvings in Southern France (Lascaux) and Northern Spain (Altamira)
Stone Carvings (weapons and flint axes)
Pottery, painted vases, weaving, Woman of Willendorf carved
Bones Whistles, Primitive drums

36. Arts & Ideas
Paleolithic Poster

37. Stamp

38. Paleolithic Drawing By Avner Geller

39. Paleolithic Diet: Reversal of Lifestyle Related Diseases

40. Darwin Darwinism and Popular Culture: His master-work “The Origin of species”

41. Neolithic Contemporary Artwork

42. Neolithic Beach Art

43. Neolithic Watch Water

44. ParvizArt-BaniAdam

45. Contemporary Illustration

46. Thank You