Art I

M01 Assignment:

You are responsible for knowing the following items.
Works of Art:

PREHISTORIC ART
Upper Paleolithic Art (c. 42,000-8000 BCE) Define the following

1. Lion-Human from Hohlenstein-Stadel
2. Woman from Willendorf
3. Architecture: (mammoth-bone house, Ukraine)
4. Cave and rock paintings, sculpture
5. Pech-Merle Cave
6. Chauvet Cave
7. Lascaux Cave
8. Altamira
9. Bison, Le Tuc d’Audoubert

 Art in the Neolithic Period (8000-3400/2300 BCE)

1. Sculpture (Woman and Man from Cernavoda)
2. Village settlements (Catal Hoyuk)
3. Megalithic Architecture
4. Newgrange, Ireland
5. Stonehenge

Vocabulary:

sculpture in the round 

relief sculpture

abstraction

stylization

attributes

modeling

flying gallop

ceramics      

Post-and-lintel construction

corbeling

dolmen

capstones

cairn

passage graves

henge

incised

M01 Assignment

Study Questions

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Prehistory

1. Paleolithic humans were nomadic, and Neolithic humans began to live in villages. How did this
affect their art work respectively?

2. How did cave paintings differ from each other throughout the Paleolithic period? What were some of the techniques used? Define flying gallop. What does the term refer to?

3. What are some of the theories why Prehistoric humans may have painted on cave walls?

4.What were the hypothesized uses for some of the megalithic monuments in Europe?

5. What might  the appearance of metals mean to early humans?