ARTH 1510 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Pomegranate, Atreus, Pained

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 1510
• Professor: Martina Meyer

Document Summary

Humans may share attributes of the animal. Surpasses most early figurines in size and complexity. Possible that creator though of animals and humans as parts of one common group of beings who shared the world. Human ability to conceive/represent a creature never seen in nature. 1. 7 woman from willendorf or (cid:498)venus of willendorf(cid:499) May have signaled whether a group was friendly and acceptable for interaction and mating. Provides reassurance of shared values about the body. Earliest known site of prehistoric cave paintings. Popular tourist site -> brought heat, humidity, co2 = fungus. Only painting in lascaux cave that seems to tell a story. Bison is disemboweled and will soon die. Man is sticklike figure while bison has detail. Created by modelling damp clay on cave floor. Footprints found in clay floor of cave -> suggests important group rites took place. Trapezoidal buildings made of wooden posts, branches, mud and clay. Little evidence for domesticated plants and animals.