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- 1. Western Classical Art Traditions on Paintings GRADE 9- ARTS QUARTER 1
- 4. Paintings from the Early Age: Pre-Historic and Ancient Egypt Paintings is one of the oldest art forms. When societies began crafting tools and making fire, they were also learning to represent the world in pictures. These pictures were recorded in cave paintings that still exist today.
- 5. PAINTINGS FROM THE PRE-HISTORIC (Image from Treasures of the World, 1961 CCP Library Cave of Lascaux, 15000-10000 B.C. – Stone Age)
- 6. Even before humans learned to read and write they were already artists as manifested by the different archeological discoveries from the different parts of the world. Each and every civilization of the world has its distinct art forms depending on its aesthetic and utilitarian needs.
- 8. Prehistoric includes all human existence before the emergence of writing. Their art is of interest not only to the art historians but also to archeologist and anthropologist, for whom the art is only one clue – along with fossils, pollens, and other finds to an understanding of early human life and culture.
- 10. Their paintings were found inside the caves which may have been their way of communicating with each other. It may also be for religious or ceremonial purposes.
- 12. These paintings may be more on artifact of the archeological evidence than true picture of human’s first created art. Pre historic drawings of animals were usually correct in proportion. The dominant features in the painting were large animals native in the region.
- 14. Inthehistoryof art, prehistoricartisallartproducedin preliterate, pre-historical culturesbeginning somewhere invery late geologicalhistory, andgenerally continuinguntilthatcultureeither develops writingor other methods ofrecord-keeping, ormakessignificant contactwithanother culturethathas,andthatmakes some recordof majorhistoricalevents. Atthis pointancientartbegins,fortheolder literate cultures. Theend-date forwhatiscovered bytheterm thusvaries greatly between different partsof the world
- 15. Prehistoric painting of Rhinoceroses in inthe Chauvet Cave, France,dated circa35,000 BP It is clear that such workmanship existed by 40,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic Era, although it is quite possible that itbeganearlier. The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Paleolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 yearsago
- 18. The Venus of Brekhat Ram, have been claimed as the earliest representations of the human form The object, including its "arms" and "legs", was created by natural geological processes. The horizontal grooves on both sides of the object seem to be formed partly naturally partly artificially (by percussion). The object also contains traces of pigment, which seems to be iron and manganese according to preliminary study. VenusofTan-Tan" (replica),Museum ofHuman Evolution,Burgos, Spain.
- 19. cavelion drawings fromChauvetCaveinSouthern FrancefromtheAurignacian period(c.35,000to30,000 yearsold) The art of the Upper Paleolithic representsthe oldestform ofpre-historic art. Figurative Art ispresent inEuropeand SoutheastAsia, beginning betweenabout40,000to 35,000yearsago. Non-figurative CavePaintings,consisting ofhand stencilsandsimplegeometric shapes,aresomewhatolder,at least40,000yearsold,and possiblyasoldas64,000years.
- 20. Portable art (sometimes called Mobiliary Art) refers to the small examples of Prehistoric Art that could be carried from place to place, which is especially characteristic of the Art of the upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Eras, Often made of ivory, bone, antlers orstone The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus Figurine estimated to have been made around 25,000-30,000 years ago. It was found on August 7, 1908, by a workman named JohannVeran[ orJosefVeram duringexcavations