ARTH 1100 Study Guide - Chisel, Lascaux, Ochre
14 Jul 2014
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1925- explorers found australopithecus (3 million year old humans) bones in a cave in. Makapansgat, south africa: pebble that looks like a face found with the bones, not considered art because nothing was removed from normal contexts, nothing altered, and not labeled, art began around 30000 bce. Paleolithic art: greek paleo=old and lithos=stone, humans went beyond recognition of forms to representation= huge achievement. 1 has a striped beast- maybe a zebra: ca. Spain his daughter was first to see painted beasts on ceiling because of her short stature first thought of as a forgery, but because of mineral deposits that would take thousands of years to accumulate it persuaded skeptics. In profile: might be giving birth, not in a common ground line, no setting, background or indication of place. In france painted hands and spotted horses found on wall of pech-merle: handprints must have had a purpose- such as a signature, bison on convex surfaces, hands and horses on concave.
