Prehistoric Rock Paintings Flashcards
In India the earliest paintings have been reported from?
Upper Palaeolithic times
The first discovery of rock paintings was made in India in
1867-68 by Archibold Carlleyle
Lakhudiyar is located on the banks of
River Suyal
Lakhudiyar is in
Kumaon Hills in Uttarakhand
Lakhudiyar literally means
one lakh caves
Humans are represented in which form at Lakhudiyar?
Stick like form
List the main animal motifs depicted in Lakhudiyar.
Long snouted animal, a fox, multiple legged lizard
List the kinds of geometric patterns depicted in Lakhudiyar.
Wavy lines, rectangle filled geometric designs, groups of dots.
An interesting scene depicted in Lakhudiyar is?
Handlinked dancing human figures
Earliest paintings at Lakhudiyar are in
Black
Over the black paintings at Lakhudiyar, paintings in which colour were superimposed
Red ochre
The latest group of paintings at Lakhudiyar are
white paintings
List the three categories into which paintings at Lakhudiyar can be classified.
Man, Animals and Geometric patterns
Neolithic paintings are found in
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Neolithic man used _____ in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as his canvas.
granitic rocks
Some sites in Karnataka and Andhra where Neolithic paintings are found are
Kupgallu, Piklihal and Tekkalakota
List the three types of paintings found in Karnataka and Andhra.
Paintings in 1. white 2. red ochre over white background 3. red ochre
The subjects of paintings in Karnataka and Andhra are
bulls, elephants, gazelles, goats, horses, sambhars, sheep, stylised humans and tridents
Bhimbetka is located in
45 Kms south of Bhopal
Caves of Bhimbetka are discovered by
VS Wakankar in 1957-58
List the themes in Bhimbetka paintings.
mundane events of daily life, sacred and royal images, hunting, dancing, music, horse and elephant riders, animal fighting, honey collection and decoration of bodies
The Bhimbetka paintings of Upper Palaeolithic phase are
linear representations in green and dark red of huge animal figures such as bison, elephants, Tigers, rhinos and boars
At Bhimbetka, in paintings from Upper Palaeolithic phase, Green paintings are of
dancers
At Bhimbetka, red paintings from the upper Palaeolithic phase are of
hunters
The largest number of paintings at Bhimbetka belong to
Mesolithic period
The Mesolithic paintings at Bhimbetka, themes _____ but are ______ .
multiply; smaller in size.
The hunting scenes from Mesolithic paintings at Bhimbetka depict
people hunting in groups, armed with barbed spears, pointed sticks, arrows and bars.
In some paintings at Bhimbetka, primitive men are shown with ____, probably to catch animals.
traps and snares
The Mesolithic animal paintings at Bhimbetka show
a feeling of tenderness and love for the animals.
The Mesolithic paintings at Bhimbetka depict animals in
naturalistic style
the Mesolithic paintings at Bhimbetka depict humans in
a stylistic manner
The Mesolithic paintings at Bhimbetka depict women
both in nude and clothed
______ are a common theme of the Mesolithic paintings at Bhimbetka
Community dances
_______ and rock paintings bear common motifs.
Chalcolithic ceramics
What are the common motifs on rock paintings and Chalcolithic ceramics
cross hatched squares, lattices
The vividness and vitality of the earlier paintings is lost in the
Chalcolithic paintings
The favourite colours of the artists at Bhimbetka are
White and Red
Red colour was obtained from
haematite
Haematite is also known as ____ in India.
geru
The color green is obtained from
chalcedony
the color white may have been obtained from
limestone
Brushes were made out of
plant fibre
The colors in the prehistoric paintings have remained intact because
of the chemical reaction of the oxide present on the surface of the rocks.
The artists made their paintings on the ____ of the rock shelters.
walls and ceilings.
Paintings were made on the ceilings because
people could notice them from a distance
The primitive artists seem to possess an intrinsic passion for
story telling
The paintings of ____ show the mastery of skill of the primitive artist.
individual animals
Both ____ and ____ have been realistically maintained in the paintings by the primitive artists.
proportion and tonal effect
At Bhimbetka, there are as many as ____ layers of paintings.
20
Paintings were superimposed because
artist may not have liked his painting and painted another over it; some paintings and places may have been considered sacred or special; the area may have been used by different generations of people at different times.
