Art History Exam I

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Prehistoric Age (__________)

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c. 2 million BC- c 3300 BC

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paleolithic age (________)

also known as ___________

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c. 40,000 BC - 8000 BC

Old Stone Age

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Upper Paleolithic Age (_____)

also known as _____________

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c. 30,000- 10,000 bc

Late Stone Age

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During what age was it believed to be the beginning of art?

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During Upper Paleolithic
the Late Stone Age
c. 30,000 - 10,000 bc

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What is the defining factor b/w historic and prehistoric?

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A writing system

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How do archeologists figure out how old an artifact is?

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Dating by Association
- by analyzing the level/strata of a person etc., they can come up w/ what was happening there at that time

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What are the 2 types of prehistoric art?

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Cave art

Portible art (why size/scale matters)

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In what year was the "Women from Willendorf" supposedly created?

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c. 22,000 bc

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What are the 2 kinds of analysis?

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1. Visual/Formal Analysis
2. Contextual Analysis

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How would you describe the people that were alive during the Upper Paleolithic Age? Where did they live

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Nomadic
- migrated south to follow animals
- no real evidence they lived in caves
- habitation sites found near some cliffs

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What was the climate like during the upper paleolithic age?

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it was the end of the last of 4 great ice ages
- was starting to warm up
- tundra

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Describe prehistoric art

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- not utilitarian
- aesthetic
- begins to be symmetrical

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Explain the "old theory"

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idea that art in the west proceeds on a linear path becoming better and better through time

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In what year did we start seeing sophisticated sculptures and paintings?

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c. 30,000 bc

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Where was the first cave painting found and what were the assumptions regarding it?

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- found in Altamira Spain
- it was believed at first to be fake b/c was too sophisticated

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In what year was the "Women from Willendorf" believed to have been created?

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c. 22,000 bc

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Naturalistic

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realistic
- art that has a surface reality b.c the artists appear to have recorded , w/ greater or lesser accuracy, exactly what they saw

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abstraction

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the transformation of visible forms into patterns that suggest the origional

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idealization

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when artists represent beauty not as it is but as they think it should be

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Where was the "Women from Willendorf" found?

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near Willendorf, Austria

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What was the woman from willendorf made of?

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limestone

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How big was the women from willendorf?

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4 3/8" or 11 cm

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Describe the woman from willendorf sculpture

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-sculptor exaggerated the figure's female attributes- big saggy breasts and belly w/ a deep navel- wide hips butt and thighs

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Could the woman from willendorf be idealized?

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well-nourished body portrays good health-
- which could guarantee longevity and ability to produce strong children for survival of the clan

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The woman from willendorf could be interpreted as ....

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-representation of actual wmn
-fertility symbol
-expression of ideal beauty
-erotic images
-ancestor figure
-doll

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Would woman from willendorf be described as abstract, naturalistic, idealized...?

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-MORE abstract than naturalistic
--greater essence of idea, less detail
--simplistic
-could have been idealized; we have no way of knowing

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2% of prehistoric art portrays______________
98% were of __________

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2% of prehistoric art portrays human beings
98% were of animals

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The Hall of Bulls was created where and in what year?

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Lascaux, France

in c. 15,000 bc

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When was hall of bulls discovered and when and why was it closed to the public?

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discovered in early 1940s
closed in 1960s to protect from heat, humidity, exhaled carbon dioxide etc. caused by all the visitors

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During this time, __________ were drawn abstractly and ________ naturalistically

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humans were drawn more abstractly and animals more naturalistically

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Is hall of bulls more naturalistic or more abstract than the woman from willendorf?

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Hall of Bulls is more naturalistic than the wmn from willendorf

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Predynastic

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before c. 3150 bc
when we think egypt was first divided into 2 parts - upper and lower egypt

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Early Dynastic (D 1-2)

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c. 3150 - 2700 bc

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Old Kingdom (D 3-6)

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c. 2700 - 2190 bc

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Middle Kingdom (D 11-12)

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c. 2040-1674 bc

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New Kingdom (D18-29)

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c. 1552-1069 bc

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The Egyptian culture has not changed in 3000 years-- how has such continuity been maintained?

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isolation--terrain/topography
-they had everything they needed
natural cycles-- the sun and the flooding of the nile

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Why was the flooding of the nile so important?

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-cultivated only a narrow peice of land along nile
-couldn't rotate crops so flooding would replenish soil; it brought w/it nutrients from the south

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What were 2 major resources for the egyptians?

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the nile

stone

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describe the majority of egyptian sculpture

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-made of limestone
-very symbolic
-painted
--choice of materials may support meaning

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When did King Khafre rule?

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During the old kingdom, dynasty 4 c. 2570-2544