Art in Early Civilization Flashcards
(61 cards)
Summary:
Stone Age: _
Paleolithic: _
Mesolithic: _
Neolithic: _
Stone Age: (14,000-2,000 BCE)
Paleolithic (later years of the Old Stone Age)
Mesolithic (Middle Stone)
Neolithic (New Stone Age)
_ refers to all networks produced by ancient men before any preconceived culture and known methods of writing and record keeping ever existed; art before history.
Prehistoric Art
In prehistoric art:
Any parietal art involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors, or ceilings of ancient rock dwellings inhabited by prehistoric man
Cave painting or petrograph
In prehistoric art:
_ are images with only one colour
Monochrome cave paintings
In prehistoric art:
_ as two or more colours. Example: Altamira cave in Spain
Polychrome cave paintings
In prehistoric art:
_ are engraved drawing, done by cutting lines on the rock surface with a sharp object probably a flint, or stone, rather than one made by drawing lines with charcoal or manganese
Cave drawings or petrographs
_ is when artists painted both predator and game animals and pictures of human were rarely shown. Human images were highly stylized and less naturalistic than the animal figures. Abstract images like signs, symbols and geometric makings were also common.
Stone Age
The _ has witnessed how humans were able to lead more stable lives and eventually come up with permanent shelters and tools or
survival.
Stone Age
_:
* use primitive stone tools
* product of climate change
* As the climate got colder, part of the early humans instinct is to look for shelters that would provide them with warmth.
* Caves became protective havens for the early humans and these caves paved the way for the birth of their first attempts to create art
Paleolithic Art
_:
* highly abstracted woman highlighted body parts associated with fertility
* oversized breasts, enlarged hips, and round abdomen
* the representation may show the importance of taking care of these body parts for procreation and consequently the survival of species.
Venus of Willendorf
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* man developed culture and change his lifestyle
*developed especially when life for the early humans has become more stable.
*learned to cultivate the land and domesticated animals
*Plants and animals used to design clay pots
Neolithic Art
_:
The purpose of this fascinating edifice remains a mystery up to this day and age. Some regard it as a temple while others see it as complex calendar that tracked the movements of both the Sun and Moon
Stonehenge
_:
* Art forms from Greece and Rome
* general term describing the long term period of time in cultural history
* started earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer and continued through the rise of Rome and Christianity up to the fall of the Roman Empire and the start of the Early Middle Ages
Classical Period
Pre-Historic Art Greek Art
1. Formative or Pre-Greek period: _
* 2. First Greek Period: _
* 3. Golden Age: _
* 4. Hellenistic Period: _
- Formative or Pre-Greek period ( motif was sea and
nature) - First Greek Period – (largely Egyptian influence)
- Golden Age (480-400 BC)
- Hellenistic Period (4th century -1st BC) heightened, individualism, tragic mood and contorted face (lacaustic painting)
The subjects matters of painting in Greece were on _, _, _, and _.
young wide males;
draped female;
wounded soldiers;
scenes from everyday life
Pre-historic Roman Art:
1. Etruscan Period: _
2. Roman Period: _
Pre-historic Roman Art:
1. Etruscan Period
* subject matters of painting were on ancestor worship; catacombs and sarcophagi
2. Roman Period
* the subject matters of painting were commemorative statues, sarcophagi, frescoes, designs with vine motifs.
_:
- covered almost 10 centuries of Medieval Art
- between the Sack of Rome and Early Italian Renaissance
- Christian Church (centered in Rome and Constantinople) - main sponsor of architecture and other types of art
- all works were commissioned by religious authorities
- wealth middles class patrons commissioned number of artworks for personal enjoyment
Medieval Period
_:
* related to sacred buildings
* Church is the primary signifying Christian faith
* used large amounts of money for beautification
and the creation of buildings
* granted indulgences(pardon) for those who
desired to help build churches and cathedral
structures
Medieval Architecture
_ serves as the primary model of medieval religious architecture. _ were the most notable nonreligious examples of medieval
architecture throughout Europe
Roman Basilica;
Castles and walls
_:
* Architectural styles flourished across western part of Europe with France
* heart of both production and innovation
* developed from Carolingian (Charlemagne) and Ottoman models
Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
_:
* All western European architecture- Romanesque except
Byzantine structures (500-1150)
Romanesque Architecture
In Romanesque Architecture:
_: Carolingian architecture or Pre Romanesque (North European style of Carolingian Renaissance during the reign of Charlemagne, late 8th and 9th centuries)
_: Ottonian architecture developed under the reign of Emperor Otto the Great)
Earlier Period;
Later Period
_:
* German style lasted from mid-10th until 11th century
* the name was given to the style of architecture used in early Middle Ages (pioneered by the
North men or the Vikings who settled in Normandy France) and their prolific castle building
* association with the Roman empire
* massive quality, thick walls, round arches, study
pillars,
Romanesque Architecture
_ is the first major style of architecture to be developed after the collapse of the Roman empire
Middle Ages Romanesque Architecutre
