ARTH 120 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Venus, Polish Language, Limestone
12 Oct 2018
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ARTH 120
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Fall 2018
ARTH 120 Intro: Art In The West From Antiquity to Modernity FW
(Readings: Janson, pp xxi-xxxi; Barnet, pp 1-8 and Janson pp. 1-19)
Lesson One: Pre-Historic Art, (before we had writing)
Bear Chauvet Cave, ca 30, 000 -28, 000 BCE
- 1994, greatest discovery
- 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
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Halls of Bulls, Lascaux Cave 15, 000-10, 000 BCE
Lions and Bison, Chauvet Cave,
ca. 30, 000- 28, 000 BCE
- 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!
- Vivid realism
Female Genitalia and Bison Head Chauve
Cave, ca. 30, 000-28,000 BCE
- So called “Venus of Willendorf”
limestone ca. 28, 000-25, 000
- All female genitalia were called Venus
- 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!
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Schematic Plan of the Lascaux Cave
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Rhinoceros, wounded man, and bison,
Lascaux Cave ca. 15, 000- 13, 000 BCE
- Rhinoceros on the left,
- Bison has a spear going through his
bowels
- Man dies with an erection
- It is possible it is some message, it is also
possible they were painted years apart
and mean nothing to each other
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Stonehenge, ca 2,100 BCE, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
- Considered pre-history, because no text
- No longer hunters and gathers, they have settled down and stayed in one space, rather
than being always on the move
- Started to build architecture, before there was no on
- Built in a circle
- Seems to be related to the calendar, some sort of pattern
- Has to do with worship
- No Cory, 50 ton rocks surrounding/made of that were dragged there
- It has been standing since it was built
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Document Summary
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.
