Art Survey 1 Art Before History

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Animal plaque, Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia, c. 23,000 BCE

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Gives us key to how neolithic and paleolithic artists depicted animals
Profile view gives the most info

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Human with feline head, Germany, c. 30,000-28,000 BCE

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Mammoth Tusk

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Venus of Willendorf, Austria, c. 28,000-25,000 BCE

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4 Inches tall
We need fertility to survive in earth and everything

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Woman with Bison Horn, Laussel, ca. 25,000-20,0000

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Relief Sculpture, France

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Two Bison, Le Tuc d' Auboubert ca. 15,000- 10,000 BCE

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Deep in Cave
Paleolithic people didn't live there.
Not for Decoration.

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Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux, France, c. 15,000-13,000 BCE

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Not Decoration

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Rhinoceros, wounded man, disemboweled bison, Lascaux, 15,000- 13,000 BCE

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Deer Hunt Catal Hoyuk, Turkey, c. 5750 BCE

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Conceptual not realistic

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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, ca. 2550- 1600 BCE
"2500"

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England
Post & Lintel
Megalyths
Neolithic

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Paleolithic

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(Old Stone Age)
30,000-8,000 BCE

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Neolithic

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(New Stone Age)
8,000-2,300 BCE (begins 8,000 BCE in Near East and 4,000 BCE in Europe)

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relief sculpture

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figures projecting from a background of which they are a part, can be high or low

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megalith

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greek "great stone". a large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures

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post and lintel

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system in which two posts support a lintel-(horizontal beam used to span an opening)

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Corbelled Vault

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A vault formed by the piling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, cantilevered inward until the two walls meet in an arch.

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difference between paleolithic and neolithic art

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Paleolithic art is represented by cave wall drawings and some portable objects that were constructed. Basically this type of art is the oldest and it consisted of cave art and small figurines or decorated objects carved out of bone, stone, or clay.

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Neolithic art is represented by structures (such as Stonehenge) and sculptures and human and animal objects carved from rock, wood, bone, leather, ivory, and eggshell.