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Paleolithic art: cave paintings and Venus figurines

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"Auroch, Horses, Rhinos" (Chauvet) Paleolithic - Show Scientists species ancestors through extinct animals being shown -…

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1—"Auroch, Horses, Rhinos" (Chauvet) Paleolithic
- Show Scientists species ancestors through extinct animals being shown
- Drawn in profile using ocher
2—"Bison" (Chauvet) Paleolithic
- Composite perspective- combination of profile and frontal (only for most outstanding features) eg. Horns
- Protoanimation- you see 8 legs on the bison to represent him moving.
3—"Rhinoceroses" (Chauvet) Paleolithic
- Created by incising (cutting away at the rock)
- another example of protoanimation
4—"Bison Atlatl" (Chauvet) Paleolithic
- Used as a spear thrower
- Made out of reindeer horn; Largely profile but horns are composite perspective
- Artist wanted the focus to be on the head (the detail in this small item shows)
5—"Lion, Human Figure" Paleolithic
- In the round, made of mammoth Ivory
- Had to remove Ivory from the animal and then shave it down which is a long process making this a very special object
- Composite figure
6—"'Venus" of Willendorf" (Willendorf, Austria) Paleolithic; Made of limestone
- woman of willendorf
- Abstracted figure (the reduction of shapes to basic, recognizable forms; not actual things)
- was meant to be held and interacted with
7—"Female Figurine" (Hohle-Fels, Germany) Paleolithic; Mammoth Ivory
- Meant to be worn as a necklace
- Oldest known figurative art
8—"Spotted Horses" (Pechmerle Cave, France) Paleolithic
- used hands and "spit spraying" on limestone
- 2 horses w/ small heads to emphasize neck and body
- tiny legs=observational not realistic
9—"Hall of the Bulls" (Lascaux Cave, France) Paleolithic; painted on limestone
- Composite perspective: Horns and eyes are frontal.
- Evidence of long cycles of abandonment: different artists contributed over time.
10—"Bird-headed man with Bison" (Lascaux Cave, France) Paleolithic; Painted on limestone
- Bisons intestines are spilling out; he is wounded; Rhino on the left
- Maybe scene of hunting; atlatl and broken spear
- Found at the bottom of a 16 ft. shaft in the cave.
11—"Shaman?" (Trois-Frères cave, France) Paleolithic; painted on limestone
- Composite perspective (face is full frontal; staring at viewer)
- "Shaman" relation to the Gods; in a translike state that connected them to the Gods.
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