MPC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chauvet Cave, Cave Painting, Lascaux
18 Jan 2019
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Art classical tradition day 1: art does not necessarily become more sophisticated as time progresses, art reflects the value of society of its time, animals were painted in profile so you can see the entire animal. Venus of wilendorf: no face = not rendition of specific person, generic representation of woman. Woman holding a bison horn (laussel, dordogne, france: relief sculpture- still attached to a background, 2d, brightly coloured. Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the altamira cave (santander, spain: seutuola (amateur archeologist, curled up arguably means dead. Cave painting (lascaux, dordogne, france: cave of the bulls, overlapping paintings of bulls, flickering torch light animates overlapping images, group of squares. Chauvet cave (vallon-pont-d"arc, ardeche, france) (problem: not part of hunters" diet: lions, religious rituals performed in front of images in hopes of a good hunt, theory of decoration: problem, too deep within the cave.
