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Art Slides #1

Art Slides #1. Ancient to Egyptians. Birth of Art. Art was first created around 25,000 years ago. Neanderthal evolved into Cro-Magnon and greater intelligence allowed imagination and ability to create images in painting and sculptures.

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Art Slides #1

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  1. Art Slides #1 Ancient to Egyptians

  2. Birth of Art • Art was first created around 25,000 years ago. • Neanderthal evolved into Cro-Magnon and greater intelligence allowed imagination and ability to create images in painting and sculptures. • Three art forms: painting, sculpture, and architecture, embodied ambitions, dreams and values of cultures.

  3. Prehistoric Art • First art objects created out of an attempt to control or appease natural forces. • Symbols of animals and people had supernatural significance and magic powers.

  4. Cave Painting

  5. Cave Painting • First “paintings” made in caves 15,000 years ago. • Pictures of bison, deer, horses, cattle, mammoths, and boars. • Created images to guarantee a successful hunt. Images with pierced arrows. • Gouges in the rock suggest that people threw spears at the images.

  6. Cave Painting Technique • Artists used charcoal to outline the edges. • Followed the bulges in the rock to imply bulk. • Tonal shading with earth-tone pigments lent contour and perspective. • “paints” were chunks of red and yellow ocher ground into power. • applied with brushes made out of animal hair. • Drawings seemingly random • No background. Animals float in space.

  7. Cave Paintings of Lascaux Discovered in 1940 by two young French boys after their dog ran into the cave.

  8. Ancient Sculpture Venus of Willendorf 25,000 to 20,000 BC. One of the earliest known human figures. Fertility fetish, symbolizing abundance Engraved using a sharp tool.

  9. Ancient Architecture Stonehenge 2600 B.C. Astronomical calendar. Cromlech: circular arrangement of stones. Outer ring=trilithons, shaped doorways. Second ring=smaller upright stones. Horseshoe of carefully finished trilithons Heel stone marks sun rising in the east during summer solstice.

  10. Egyptian Architecture Cheops Pyramid and Sphinx 2600 BC Largest stone structure in the world 23 years to build 2 million stone blocks at 2.5 tons Designed as burial chambers Elaborate tunnels, traps, decoy chambers, protected actual chamber.

  11. Egyptian Painting

  12. Egyptian Painting • Glorify rulers and make them comfortable in the afterlife. • Benefit the rulers on their journey after death. • Biggest figure=ruler • Second biggest=wife • Smallest=daughter • Showing activities for afterlife.

  13. Egyptian Sculpture Golden Mask of King Tutankhamen 1352 BC. Died at age 19 Only tomb found in near-original condition All gold everything. Baskets of fruit and garlands of flower Four chariots covered with gold Golden couches, golden throne, gold walls, gold coffin.

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