ARTH 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chauvet Cave, Aerosol Paint, Fingerpaint
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Pre-historic art: venus of willendorf - austria, limestone, ca. Carved on all three sides, very small (1-2in in height) making it incredibly portable. There are traces of red mineral based paint, oaker which is a redish brown. Two ways of thinking about an object, the head of the venus is a braided knot pattern instead of a human head: wall paintings of lascaux (france), ca. 16,000-14,000 bce: stonehenge, england, sandstone & volcanic rock, ca 2550-1600 bce. Art historians do not think of nature as beautiful, as they are only interested in something that has been manipulated by an animate object or human. Pair-non-pair (cave), france 33,000-25,000 bce (one of earliest monuments surviving) Carvings of animals into rock wall of cave, buffalo/rhinos/horses/antelope. Relief - carving into a surface, wall/slab, to create form. Woman holding bison horn, laussel painted limestone, (france), ca 25,000-20,000 bce. Relief carving of a woman, likely taken from cave wall.
