Paleolithic Art

Question 1

significance of the paleolithic period

Answer 1

humans invented the concept of recording the world around them in pictures, often painted on or carved into the walls of caves

Question 2

Answer 2

Hall of Bulls

France

A painting of a man can be found, earliest appearance in art Painting of a rhino, wounded man, disemboweled bison

Lascaux Cave

Question 3

Answer 3

Pebble resembling a humans face

not actually considered art because it was not man-made

Makapansgat pebble

Question 4

Answer 4

African painting

Charcol drawn onto the stone

Apollo 11 Cave in Namibia

the painter represented the animal in strict profile so that the head, body, tail, and all four legs are clearly visible

Animal facing left

Question 5

Europe in the stone age

Answer 5

some of the first sculptures and paintings

Question 6

Answer 6

One of the oldest sculptures ever discovered is an extraordinary ivory statuette carved from the tusk of a woolly mammoth

Hohlenstein-Stadel

Question 7

most common animals artists depicted

Answer 7

Bison, horse, woolly mammoth, and ibex

Question 8

Answer 8

limestone nude woman no face (not depicting a specific woman) Her size represents beauty during that time period, or pregnancy

Venus of Willendorf

Question 9

Answer 9

Earliest Relief sculpture Woman holding a bison horn, while having one hand on her stomach

Painted Limestone Symbolic of having plenty or giving birth

Laussel Woman

Question 10

Answer 10

made out of clay cave chambers at Le Tuc d’Audoubert pair of bison largest Paleolithic sculptures known paleolithic

Two Bison Relief sculpture

Question 11

Answer 11

made out of mammoth tusks

Bison licking its flank

La Madeleine France

Fragment of a spear thrower

Head is turned to remain a strict profile, so one can get the whole “picture”

Question 12

Answer 12

first known example of cave paintings

A mans young daughter discovered the paintings while they were in the cave together

Paleolithic painters used stone lamps to provide light in the dark caves bison paleolithic

Altamira

Question 13

Answer 13

hands accompany representations of spotted horses

the painter placed one hand against the wall and then brushed or blew or spat pigment around it

limestone grew over it, so researchers know it is actually old

researchers think the painted hands near the Pech-Merle horses are “signatures” of community members or of individual painters paleolithic

Peche- Merle

Question 14

Answer 14

aurochs horses rhinos attacking eachother (?) perhaps oldest cave paintings

Chauvet Cave