ART 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lascaux, Chauvet Cave, Megalith
Document Summary
Relief sculpture: attached to a greater object (2-d) Sculpture in the round: sculpted all the way around (360 degrees) Naturalism: a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail. Abstraction: able to think about other things not in front of us (inanimate thoughts) Post and lintel construction: building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them. Human with feline head, from hohlenstein-stadel, germany: upper paleolithic, mammoth ivory- shaman figure (ritual) Two bison, from le tue d"audoubert cave, ari ge, france: upper paleolithic, clay. Venus of willendorf, from willendorf, austria: upper paleolithic, limestone. Lascaux cave, hall of bulls, rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison .
