AHIS 120gp Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sarsen, Bluestone, Ochre
Document Summary
Limestone and originally colored with red ocher. Big breasts and belly, deep navel wide hips, solid thighs. This well-nourished body represented health and fertility ability to produce strong children and guarantee survival for family. Best-known cave painting found in 1940 at lascaux, southern france. Ordered in rows, face to face, tail to tail. Remarkable accuracy in the silhouettes of the animals stylized/abstract. *bird-- headed man with bison and rhinoceros, lascaux, france. The only painting in the lascaux cave that tells a story and is stylistically different from the other paintings. A figure that could be a hunter, simplified in form but recognizable male, lying on the ground. Has a male figure with head of a bird. A great bison looms over the hunter figure. Below the hunter lies a baton and a spear-thrower (the outer end carved in the shape of a bird) The bison has been gutted and will soon die.
