Prehistoric Art Flashcards
PREHISTORIC PERIOD year
AROUND 30,000 BC – 3RD CENT BC
time before writing
Prehistoric
without written records
Prehistoric
works themselves and archaeological evidence
Prehistoric
Pre:
Before
Historic:
Written History
Prehistoric art is divided into:
PALEOLITHIC period
MESOLITHIC
NEOLITHIC period
PALEOLITHIC period is also known as
OLD STONE AGE
known as the OLD STONE AGE
PALEOLITHIC period
from 30,000 - 10,000 B.C
PALEOLITHIC period
earliest period of the Stone Age
PALEOLITHIC period
transitional period of change
MESOLITHIC
known as NEW STONE AGE
NEOLITHIC period
NEOLITHIC period is known as
NEW STONE AGE
from 8,000 - 5,000 B.C.
NEOLITHIC period
begins with the first use of stone tools
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
end of the last ice age.
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
highlights of the Middle Paleolithic.
systematic burial of the dead
the music
early art
use of increasingly sophisticated multi-part tools
Ancestors are migratory hunters
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
Ancestors are gatherers
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
Ancestors relied heavily on the animals in the area for food, clothing, shelter and tools.
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
No written language
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
pictures as symbols used to communicate.
PICTOGRAPHS
used of PICTOGRAPHS
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
Subjects of Paleolithic art:
> Animals (bison, horses, deer and lions).
> People were only represented as “stick” figures
People were only represented as “stick” figures
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
> Pigments were ground up and mixed with animal fat, blood, oils, bone marrow or saliva.
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
blown , applied or painted on with a stick or a sharp object or by a finger.
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
Dark lines outlining the contour of the animals
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
techniques used in PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
Pigments were ground up and mixed with animal fat, blood, oils, bone marrow or saliva.
blown , applied or painted on with a stick or a sharp object or by a finger.
Dark lines outlining the contour of the animals
Earth colors (from natural pigments)
Smudging to fill in shapes
Flat shapes
Earth colors (from natural pigments)
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
Smudging to fill in shapes
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
Flat shapes
PALEOLITHIC ART / PERIOD
REASONS:
animals that were around at that time
Instructions on how to hunt or not to hunt
The cave was used for religious ceremonies.
Paintings were for good luck in hunting.
good luck in hunting.
Paintings
Neolithic” means
“New Stone Age.“
period of primitive technological and social development, toward the end of the “Stone Age.“
“New Stone Age.“
development of early villages, agriculture, animal domestication, tools and the onset of the earliest recorded incidents of warfare.
“New Stone Age.“
Settled in fixed abodes and domesticated animals and plants.
NEOLITHIC:
systematic agriculture, weaving, metalworking, pottery, and counting & recording with tokens.
NEOLITHIC:
represented by a number of large and varied collections of objects found in vast isolated areas in Eastern Europe, Siberia and Central Asia.
Neolithic Art
the main occupations of the inhabitants of the forest territories during the neolithic period
fishing and hunting
known as the world’s first artists.
Cro-Magnon peoples
lived in caves when it was cold.
Cro-Magnon peoples
Hunted animals for food, clothing, tools, and shelter.
Cro-Magnon peoples
3 theories ( why they painted on the walls):
- to decorate the cave and chose animals because they were important to their existence.
- considered it magic that will help the hunters.
- Prehistoric man documented their hunting expeditions
Methods of Painting
Prehistoric people would have used natural objects to paint the walls of the caves.
To etch into the rock, they could have used sharp tools or a spear.
The paint or color that they probably used was from berries, clay, soot, or charcoal.
consisted of rude forms carved in stones & woods in order to produce figures and images to commemorate heroes & heroines & perpetuate the memory of men
PREHISTORIC SCULPTURE
The oldest traces of early man
tools made of stone (200,000 years old)
is an ivory carving of a lion-headed figure
Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel (30,000 BCE)
oldest known anthropomorphic animal carving in the world.
Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel (30,000 BCE)
discovered in a cave in Hohlenstein Mountain, located in the Swabian Jura of southwest Germany.
Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel (30,000 BCE)
Beginning of architecture
Neolithic Age, the New Stone Age (8000-3000 BC)
man used caves for shelter & most probably for religious ceremonies
Before Neolithic (Paleolithic & Mesolithic Periods),
A prehistoric rock monument.
Stonehenge
Made of monoliths- large rocks.
Stonehenge
Very mysterious-align with the sun-
cast shadows during solstices and may
have been a type of calendar.
Stonehenge
when is the stonehenge created?
Around 2000 BCE.
Ancestors during the paleolithic period are
Migratory hunters
Gatherers
Relied heavily on the animals for food, clothing, shelter and tools
