Art app 7

• Prehistoric art includes not just cave paintings, but also prehistoric sculpture, such as the Venus figurines. The massive monoliths unearthed at ancient sites like Gobekli Tepe and others are some of the oldest evidence of prehistoric art in civilized cultures.
• Prehistoric artists


  • They were constrained by the resources available to them at the time
  • They not only painted on surfaces with various pigments, but they also carved images on bone, stone, and walls, as well as creating clay sculpture and pottery using local resources
• Prehistoric art forms


  • Cave paintings
  • Prehistoric sculpture
  • Carved images on bone, stone, and walls
  • Clay sculpture
  • Pottery
• Paleolithic period


  When hunter-gatherers roamed Europe between 40,000 and 10,000 BCE
• Paleolithic artworks


  • Stone figures and implements
  • Cave paintings
• Paleolithic art


  • Carved sensuous female figures with breasts and thighs emphasizing fertility
  • Paintings depicting rhythmic stampedes of bison and elk with rich, earthy colours
• Mesolithic period


  The end of the last ice age marked the start of the Mesolithic period, which lasted from 10,000 to 5000 BCE
• Neolithic period


  Thousands of large stone buildings and earthworks are the distinctive legacy of Neolithic societies, signaling the establishment of vibrant, collaborative society and possibly early religion
• Neolithic monuments


  • Menhirs
  • Dolmens
  • Earthworks such as mounds and trenches
• Stonehenge is the most well-known Neolithic structure, but it's crucial to appreciate the movement's immense magnitude

  
• Prehistoric art around the world


  • African rock art
  • Painted caves of Lascaux and Chauvet in Europe
  • Rock art in Australia
  • Stone tools and animal bones in Egypt
  • Monumental art, cities, and complex social systems in western Asia
  • Sculpture and bodily adornment from Eynan/Ain Mallaha in the Levant
  • Carved female figurine sculpture from Mal'ta in Central and East Asia
  • Elegant stone tools from Blackwater Draw in North America and Fell's Cave in Patagonia
• The topic of whether the prehistoric artworks represent a cohesive aesthetic idiom shared by humanity or are unique to the surroundings, civilizations, and individuals who made them is one that can be debated
• Art is an essential aspect of any civilization. Once the basic human needs have been taken care of such as food, shelter, some form of community law, and a religious belief, cultures begin producing artwork, and often all of these developments occur more or less simultaneously
• These early images were crude in comparison to later developments but still express an important value of Egyptian cultural consciousness: balance
• Function of Egyptian art


  • These images were created with the intention of benefiting a divine or deceased receiver
  • Statues served as a conduit for a being's spirit (or ka) to connect with the terrestrial environment
  • Daily rituals of dressing, anointing, and perfuming with incense were performed on divine cult sculptures, which were paraded in processions
• The gods and the people were communicated through royal and elite statuary
• The majority of these Egyptian works were never intended to be seen—that was simply not their purpose
• The works on exhibit in museums are the result of royal or elite workshops; these works are the most compatible with our modern aesthetic and concepts of beauty
• The basements of most museums are crammed with hundreds (if not thousands!) of additional things produced for lower-status people—small statuary, amulets, coffins, and stelae that are easily recognizable but rarely displayed