The birth of art - Chapter 5 lesson 1 Flashcards
It began with the appearance of humans and ended with the discovery of writing.
Prehistoric period
Commonly known as the stone age, a hunter-gatherer culture.
Paleolithic period
3 stages of paleolithic period
Lower, middle, and upper paleolithic
This period is followed after the paleolithic period, which ended with the spread of agriculture.
Mesolithic period
It was the time when permanent settlements were established.
Neolithic period
How did the paleolithic period end?
When stone tools were gradually replaced by bronze and iron products
4 basic types of Paleolithic art
Petroglyphs, Prehistoric sculpture, pictographs, and megalithic art
Refers to artworks applied to an immovable rock surface
Parietal art
refers to portable artworks
mobiliary art
The term petroglyph came from the ______(1) words ________(2), which means _______(3) and ________(4), which means _______(5).
(1) Greek, (2) petra, (3) stone (4) glyphein (5) to carve
This refers to any image created on rock surfaces by means of carving, rubbing, scratching, cutting, engraving, fashioning, or other similar methods.
Petroglyphs
Stating the reasons that prehistoric people engrave images in rock surfaces was easy to identify. True or False?
False. It was a challenging task.
Non-functional rock markings resembling the shape of a cup
Cupules
The Rock Art Research Institute’s study of petroglyphs found out that rock engravings might be associated with _________ and _______.
rainmaking and healing
Considered one of the oldest known artworks in the Philippines
Petroglyphs in Angono, Rizal
An image or a symbol created to express an idea or a piece of information.
Pictograph
A type of pictograph, an image created by applying color pigments on a cave wall, ceiling, or floor.
Cave painting
What did prehistoric people mostly paint?
Figures of animals
Common figures of prehistoric people
Symbolic patterns and geometric forms
Images of human figures were strangely uncommon in prehistoric art. True or False?
True
Why were sculptures less common in the prehistoric society?
Since they were mobile (Nomadic), sculptures were prone to loss or damage
Oldest known sculpture from the paleolithic period
Venus of Berekhat Ram
What do the paleolithic sculptors use in their carvings?
Ivory, bone, and wood
A statuette of a female figure in Austria
Venus of Willendorf
Single chamber tomb
dolmen
A parietal art that involves the use of large stones as medium
Megalithic art
large upright standing stones
menhirs
aligned upright and parallel standing stones
Stone row
mound of stones and earth raised over a grave
tumulus
Monuments of stones arranged in a circle
Stone circles
Refers to art that flourished in Egypt from 3 000 BC to 30 AD
Ancient Egyptian art
Most important contribution of the ancient Egyptians
Pyramids
5 characteristics of Ancient Egyptian art
Mode of representation, Hierarchy of scale, use of color, Registers, and text and image
Statues shows an idealized depiction of gods, royalty, and government officials.
Mode of representation
Difference in scale was applied to show hierarchy.
Hierarchy of scale
Artists regulated the use of color in their paintings and used it symbolically
Use of color
The color of Ra and the pharaohs
yellow
six colors that dominated ancient egyptian art
red, blue, green, white, black, and yellow
Parallel lines that separate scenes and give ground lines for the figures
Registers
Scenes that did not have registers suggested ________.
disorder
used to convey information about a particular scene
registers
There were texts in almost every image
text and image
The characters of the writing system in ancient Egypt that were considered works of art.
Hieroglyphs
Characterized by regularity
art forms
_______ was primary and _______ was secondary in Ancient Egyptian art forms
Completeness and prettiness
A step pyramid built for King Huni
Pyramid of Zoser
_______ was represented with the head of a falcon
Horus
________ was represented with the head of a jackel
Anubis
Red symbolizes?
Power, life, anger, and victory
Blue symbolizes?
rebirth and creation
Green symbolizes?
Fertility, new life, and growth
White symbolizes?
Purity and everything sacred
Black symbolizes?
death/underworld
Yellow symbolizes?
Royalty, eternal, and gold and sun
