ART 1181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chauvet Cave, Cave Painting, Paleolithic
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Paleolithic age early phase of stone age, stone tools used, nomadic lifestyle, no settlements. The name of the famous cave in southern france which contains artwork from very early humans. Done from many people over many years; used burnt wood (charcoal) The cave painting combines multiple angles of the subject into the final piece. Sculpture in the round fully carved object, 3d. Relief sculpture a sculpture that is not fully dimensional. Gobeki tepe (aka "potbelly hill") 10000 to 9000 bce. Laussel earliest relief sculpture, woman, chisel used painted using red ocher. Altamira discovered by don marcelino sanz de sautula. A site in spain where prehistoric paintings appeared on the ceiling of a cave. Type of images: animals, human figures and abstract signs. No images of the surrounding landscape or the vegetation of the time. Neolithic art of the late stone age, circa 8,000-3,000 b. c. e. The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution.
