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Place: Altamira Cave, Spain


Notes: single subject, PROFILE, no common GL, aerial = laying down profile view


Date: Paleolithic 13k-11k BC

Place: Lascaux Cave, France


Name: Hall of the Bulls


Notes: twisted POV/foreshortening


Date: Paleolithic 16k-14k BC

Place: Lascaux Cave, France


Name: Hunting Scene


Notes: power of animals


Date: Paleolithic 16-14k BC

Place: Le Tuc d'Audobert, France


Name: two bison, clay relief


Notes: high relief, profile


Date: Paleolithic 15k-10k BC

Place: Le Madeleine Cave, France


Name: Bison w/ turned head


Notes: turned view, not profile


Date: Paleolithic 12k BC

Place: Laussel, France


Name: woman holding bison horn


Notes: fertility, no face


Date: Paleolithic 25k-20k BC



Place: Willendorf, Austria


Name: Venus of Willendorf


Notes: body/fertility, portable


Date: Paleolithic 28k-25k BC

formal analysis

1. form


2. composition


3. medium/technique


4. line


5. color


6. texture


7. space


8. perspective

main ideas

1. 1st art precedes writing


2. representing the world visually


3. women and animals dominate - power of animals and fertility


4. profile - shows the most features