ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chauvet Cave, Lascaux, Jean Clottes
30 Jul 2018
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Arth 120 intro: art in the west from antiquity to modernity fw (readings: janson, pp xxi-xxxi; barnet, pp 1-8 and janson pp. Lesson one: pre-historic art, (before we had writing) Bear chauvet cave, ca 30, 000 -28, 000 bce. Some of the oldest cave art we know of. Very realistic, sense of physical presence, motion, the artist took advantage of the bump in the rock and used it give the image density. Image layers on top of each other, we don"t know if they were painted like this, 100-1000 years apart, we don"t know! So called venus of willendorf limestone ca. Always emphasized on boobs, belly, vagina, not hands/feet/face. This was a time when big features were common. Fun fact: made in soap figures today! Halls of bulls, lascaux cave 15, 000-10, 000 bce. Bison has a spear going through his bowels.
