ARTH 1100 Chapter 1: ARTH 1100 CHAPTER ONE.docx
1 Feb 2014
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Chapter one: paleolithic and neolithic art: paleolithic 30,000 8000 bce, first sculptures and paintings are made, rare to have human figures made; men extremely rare, art focused around animals (bison, horse, mammoth, ibex, profile view, examples of works, africa (1) apollo 11 cave (a) animal painting (i) charcoal on stone, western europe (1) hohlenstein stadel germany (a) feline head on human body (i) mammoth ivory statuette (2) willendorf. Germany (a) venus of willendorf (i) nude woman: named after it founder, limestone figurine of a woman, fertility symbolism = exaggeration on body; rounded ball shape, no facial features (3) laussel. France (a) woman holding bison horn (i) figure carving on lime stone (ii) relief sculpture (iii) exaggeration on body (4) le tuc d"audoubert france (a) two bison (i) relief sculpture (ii) strict profile (iii) clay (5) le madeleine. France (a) bison licking its flank (i) reindeer antler carving (6) altamira spain.
