ART 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Menhir, Trilithon, Cave Of Altamira
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Small art, portable = traveling (art of reproduction, animals) Sympathetic magic: what you create, you will get something out of it. Fertility object: you will have children/ good fertility. Cavemen (known to be not hygienic- women sculpture contradicts) High relief sculpture: flat with sculpture sticking out. Horses common in caves: contradicts sympathetic (don"t eat horses) Idea: paintings done by women- handprints (spit charcoal paint on hand) Reoccurring paintings, paint over it when they return from travel. Farming began = surplus =extra food = no need to be nomadic (more jobs now) Evidence of war, procession of land rights/water rights. Ain ghazel, jordan: uphill protection, houses on terraces. Catalhoyuk, turkey: no street or open spaces = protection. Deer hunt, anatolian godess giving birth sculpture (art connects with paleolithic animal hunting) Corbeled: not sturdy, larger spaces (brick like) (skara brae, scotland) Megalithic architecture (made of stone, huge, ton of weight) Solar calendar: predict changing in weather- communication from god = temple.
