Group 1 Flashcards
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refers to all artworks produced by ancient men before any preconceived culture and known methods of writing and record keeping ever existed, simply meaning art before history.
prehistoric art
The term _______ ________ refers to any parietal art using color pigments on walls, floors, or ceilings of ancient rock dwellings.
cave painting or petrograph
-images with only one color
example: black in Chauvet cave, France
Monochrome cave paintings
-images with two or more colors
example: bison in Altamira cave. Spain
Polychrome cave paintings
refers to an engraved drawing, that is, etched or done by cutting lines on the rock surface with a sharp object probably a flint or stone tool.
rather than one made by drawing lines with charcoal or manganese.
THE TERM CAVE DRAWING OR PETROGLYPS,
This period was commonly represented by the naturalistic images of prey animals and the men that hunted them.
Paleolithic Period
were also heavily. decorated with painted hand-stenciled rock art.
Prehistoric caves
happened when man began to develop culture and change his lifestyle.
Neolithic Period
encompasses the artistic expressions created by indigenous communities before European colonization, including petroglyphs, cave paintings, wood carvings, and other forms of artistic expression rooted in traditional culture.
Philippine primitive art
The Angono Petroglyps Site Museum in Binangonan, Rizal, was discovered by National Artist Carios “Botong Francisco. In 1965. The site, containing primitive drawings, was later recognized as a National Cultural Treasure by Presidential Decree No. 260. The museum showcases Rizal’s cultural and artistic heritage in the same year the National Museum fielded an interdisciplinary research team headed by Archaeologist Alfredo Evangelista and recovered four stone tools from the site.
CAVE paintings
are large ceramic containers used by ancient people to hold the remains of the dead.
Burial jars
The secondary burial jar was found in Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan in the early 1960’s
This is now consideres one of the Philippines’ national
cultural treasures.
This shows the belief of early Filipinos in life after death.
DATE: Neolithic Period, 890-710 В. С.
MUNUNGGUL jar
Found in Ayub Cave in Pinol, Maitum, Saranggani Province
Date: Metal Age about 5 B.C 225 AD.
The creation of these ___________ potraying human figures and faces indicates a high level of craftmanship
EARTHENWARE pots
The term _________ refers to the art form from Greece and Rome Classicism in the arts favors the classical period, classical antiquity (or the ancient times) in the western tradition, as standard for taste, which the classicists want to copy or imitate.
classical art
is a general term describing the long period of time in cultural history when the Mediterranean Sea was the center.
Classical period
has been regarded for thousands of years as the ideal standard for artistic perfection. However, it was itself influenced by earlier civilizations. Early Greek statues, such as kouroi, were heavily stylized and rigid, showing clear influence from ancient Egyptian art.
Greek art
Ancient Rome was the most powerful nation on earth for over a millennium, dominating in military organization, warfars, engineering, and architecture.
Roman Art
reflected the great shift in living conditions. The naturalistic art style of the hunter gatherer of the Paleolithic had been replaced by geometrically abstract art of Neolithic farmers who started civilization.
Neolithic art
achieved their peak of architectural glory during Emperor Trajan and Emperor Hadrian, with numerous building programs of monuments, baths, aqueducts, palaces, temples, and mausoleums.
The Romans
