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ART 1A - Art of the Stone Age: Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods
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- 1Paleo translates to:"old" in Greek
- 2Lithos translates to:"stone" in Greek
- 3What is happening at this time in the Stone Age?This is during the Ice Age, nomadic humans (they are moving place to place; based on season and food sources). They tend to keep revisiting certain sites; i.e. like caves. Where they carve or paint (more often paint), there is evidence of these Paleolithic people all over Europe. There are some 200 hundred sites in all; created over a huge extensive time period (thousands of things added over the years). They range in sizes, they are using burning animal fat or laterns to light the cave. It is still a mystery as to the significance of these multitude of cave paintings and sites.
- 4Paleolithic “artists” employes several key artistic conventions:1. Dominance of animals in art versus humans.
2. The “twisted view” (or combined view)
3. Selective exaggeration - 5Caves at Lascaux, Paleolithic France, ca. 16,000-14,000 bceThey created walkways (they don’t let people in now), the main show is on the cave walls and ceilings of these particular sites. These are all protected sites, cave galleries, organic pigments, ground minerals. Visiting the same sites over and over again.
- 6“Hall of Bulls,” Cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 16,000-14,000 bce
- 7Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in the well, Lascaux, France, ca. 15,000-13,000 bce.
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