Assignment:
Prehistory
1. Paleolithic humans were nomadic, and Neolithic humans began to live in villages. How did this affect their art work respectively?
2. How did cave paintings differ from each other throughout the Paleolithic period? What were some of the techniques used? Define flying gallop. What does the term refer to?
3. What are some of the theories why Prehistoric humans may have painted on cave walls?
4.What were the hypothesized uses for some of the megalithic monuments in Europe?
5. What might the appearance of metals mean to early humans?
You are responsible for knowing the following items.
Works of Art:
PREHISTORIC ART
Upper Paleolithic Art (c. 42,000-8000 BCE) Define the following
Lion-Human from Hohlenstein-Stadel
Woman from Willendorf
Architecture: (mammoth-bone house, Ukraine)
Cave and rock paintings, sculpture
Pech-Merle Cave
Chauvet Cave
Lascaux Cave
Altamira
Bison, Le Tuc d'Audoubert
Art in the Neolithic Period (8000-3400/2300 BCE)
Sculpture (Woman and Man from Cernavoda)
Village settlements (Catal Hoyuk)
Megalithic Architecture
Newgrange, Ireland
Stonehenge
Vocabulary:
sculpture in the round
relief sculpture
abstraction
stylization
attributes
modeling
flying gallop
ceramics
Post-and-lintel construction
corbeling
dolmen
capstones
cairn
passage graves
henge
incised
Study Questions
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