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    PREHISTORIC

    PREHISTORIC ART CHARACTERISTICS


    First art is most likely created out of an attempt to control or appease natural forces (not to adorn the body or decorate the cavern) These symbols of animals and people had supernatural significance and magical powers

    KEY POINTS Fertility symbol > need for offspring (children) Womans role to bear children and feed them Her corpulence would represent high status in a hunter gatherer society She could be an emblem of security and success

    Title: Venus of Willendorf Date: 25,000-20,000 BCE Location: Museum of natural History, Vienna Medium: limestone

    CAVE PAINTING
    SIGNIFICANT PAINTINGS FOUND IN:
    i) Altamira caves in northern Spain ( near Santander) - discovered in 1879 - paintings of bison, horses, boars, mammoths and other creatures hunted by Stone Age huntsman - c. 15,000 to 12,000 B.C. ii) Lascaux caves in the Dordogne region of France - discovered in 1940 - similar paintings of a variety of animals - painted c. 15,000 to 10,000 B.C.

    Key Points:
    Discovered in 1940 Paintings of bison, horses, boars, mammoths and other creatures hunted by Stone Age huntsman Most important objects in their art > the hunted animal Gain control over natural world > to get animals they needed for survival To be closer to elusive creatures, possibly to guarantee a successful hunt

    Title: Lascaux Cave painting Date: c.15,000-13,000 BCE Location: Lascaux, France Medium: natural pigments

    LASCAUX - PAINTED GALLERY

    The Painted Gallery is justifiably considered to be the pinnacle of Palaeolithic cave art. The figures cover the entire upper reaches of the walls as well as, in the first third of the Gallery, the ceiling of the vault...

    ...On the right wall, the focal point of the composition, made up of a herd of small horses, is a large black cow whose distinguishing feature is an unusual movement evocative of a fall...

    LASCAUX - PAINTED GALLERY

    The Horse

    ...The iconography of this prehistoric "Sistine Chapel" is based on classical prehistoric animal themes : horses, ibexes, a reminder of the stag at the entrance to this gallery and at the back, the bison.
    Second Red Horse

    Third Chinese Horse

    ...This is a continuous series of important works among which we note the Chinese Horses...

    First Chinese Horse

    Second Chinese Horse

    LASCAUX - HALL OF THE BULLS

    ...The meeting point of these two groupings is a group of small stags painted in ochre... ...In the opposite direction, a similar illustration made up of three more large aurochs, balances this composition...

    ...The colour black dominates the figurative works: only the group of stags, three bovines and four horses, of which three are incomplete, are coloured red.

    which seems to be chasing a herd of horses linked with a large, partially drawn bull towards the back of the

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