Flashcards in Art History "Prehistoric" Deck (38):
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15000s
The first pictures and sculptures were made around ... BC
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Old Stone Age
Period prior to 10,000BC
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Hunters and artists
Two occupations during the old Stone Age
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Africa
Spain
France
Most cave paintings are found in
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Ingenuity and creativity
Prehistoric man used his ......... to make tools from available materials
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Light
For ... he used a hallowed out stone or bone, with a wick made of moss and animal fat for fuel.
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Drawing
For ... he used he used chunks of red and yellow OCHER (clay colored by iron oxide) which he ground and mixed with animal fat to make paint
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Brushes
These were likely the beaten ends of sticks, moss, and hair
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Bones
Cave dwellers also probably used these hollowed out things like a primitive airbrush and stencils made of animal hide
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Palette
Used flat stone or bone for this
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Carvings
They used sharpened stones and flints to make these
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One on top the other
How animals are often drawn and this indicates that the cave dwellers didn't think they were important once finished
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Altamira, Spain
This is where the first cave paintings were found. They were found in 1870
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Lascaux, France
This is where the next cave painting site was. (1940)
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Accidentally by children playing or exploring
How both of those caves were found
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Venus of Willendorf
This painting was found in Australia and is said to be 25,000 years old
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Neolithic Era
Another name for The New Stone Age
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Jericho
This was the world's earliest stone fortification
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Stonehenge
• cromlech
• used as a place of worship connected with the sun & a calendar
• located in England on the Salisbury Plains
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Post and Lintel
The construction method Stonehenge used to be built
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Mesopotamia
A great civilization rose up here and these people were called Sumerians
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Ziggurats
Huge mountains of earth faced with mud-brick and fired brick
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Tower of Babel
- most famous ziggurat
- was meant to be able to touch heaven
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Eyes
The Sumerians emphasized these on their sculptures because they believed them to be the windows to the soul
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Hammurabi
- first ruler of Babylon
- inscribed rules on a black basalt stele
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Assyrians
Who took over Mesopotamia and expanded their control as far away as Egypt
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Persians
These people remained in power until Alexander The Great toppled them
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Stylization
The simplification and eliminate unnecessary details
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Profile
A view from the side
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Earth colors
Red
Yellow
Brown
Violet
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Architecture
The art and science of designing and erecting buildings
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Cromlech
A circle of monoliths, usually enclosing a type of altar
Stones arranged in a circle
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Palette
A board or flat surface on which a painter places (and mixes) the supply of paint to be used
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Figurative
Works using the human figure as subject matter
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Cella
The main rectangular room of a temple containing the image of a god, goddess, or cult deity
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Low relief
A surface that has only slight variations between the highest and lowest parts
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Lintel
Horizontal elements used in construction
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