Ncert XI - Prehistoric Art Flashcards
What are pre historic times?
The age in past where there were no paper or language or written word are called pre historic times.
Art forms of the oldest human beings in pre historic times are?
Painting & drawing on cave walls.
Pre historic age in early development is known as?
Old Stone Age or palaeolithic age
The paintings were of what & what was the theme of those?
Pictures of animals they hunted & subjects being humans & their activities with the animals and few geometric designs.
Kumaon hills location ?
Uthara khand (update)
Lakhudiyar meaning and where it is located
Lakhudiyar - one lakh caves & located at suyal river banks
What specific paints were drown by cave dwellers?
Stick style human, animal, wavy lines, hand linked dances, rectangle filled designs
Super imposition layers of paintings in palaeolithic
Black → red → white
Where are kupgallu, piklihal and tekkal Kota & their importance
Update
The three types of paintings gathered from kupgallu, piklihal, tekkalkota
Paintings in white, red over white background, & paintings of red ochre
Richest paintings one reported from
Vindhya ranges from m.p & their kaïmurean extensions into. U.P.
Where is bhimbetka located.
Vindhya hills → M.P. (500/800) bear paintings
Caves of bhimbetka discovered in year
1957-58
Themes of bhimbetka paintings & classification of bihimbetka painting are
Daily activities based on ① style ② technique ③ superimposition
Periods of drawings paintings
① upper palaeolithic ② Mesolithic ③ chalcolithic & further 4 successive periods.
Paintings of upper palaeolithic has red paintings & green whose are those
Red→ hunters ; green → dancers
Predominance of Mesolithic paintings are of?
Hunting activities with coloured animals sometimes as the Mesolithic man loved painting.
Mesolithic paintings show what?
Activities along with feelings of joy & fear being chased. Few engravings. Women were both nude X clothed. Children ) feelings, family life kind of emotions. Etc. Hand prints ) first prints dots of finger prints.
Bhimbetka Mesolithic colours?
Many colours, white a red being dominant.
Mesolithic colours are formed by?
Grinding rocks & minerals into powder & mixed with water & also with sone sticky substance like animal fat. That is the reason for their sustenance with tree & adverse climates. Hematite - for red &Chalcedony for green
Why “might” have Mesolithic painted in uncomfortable positions like near sealing
. May be to meek it visible from distance.
Why did they paint on same place again and again?
May be due to favouritism and shortage of space or treating the space special
