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Lesson 1:: Ancient Art

Ancient art developed during three main periods - Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Stone Ages. Examples include cave paintings, sculptures, and pottery depicting animals, humans, and symbols representing the beliefs of early civilizations. Paleolithic artists commonly used red, yellow, brown, black, and white colors in paintings found in caves, which served as dwellings and sites to illustrate their world and beliefs through images of humans, animals, tools, maps, and symbols. A famous example is the Lascaux Cave paintings created using brushes made of animal fur. Other well-known ancient artworks are the Venus of Willendorf limestone fertility figurine and the fragmented ivory Venus of Brasse

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Lesson 1:: Ancient Art

Ancient art developed during three main periods - Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Stone Ages. Examples include cave paintings, sculptures, and pottery depicting animals, humans, and symbols representing the beliefs of early civilizations. Paleolithic artists commonly used red, yellow, brown, black, and white colors in paintings found in caves, which served as dwellings and sites to illustrate their world and beliefs through images of humans, animals, tools, maps, and symbols. A famous example is the Lascaux Cave paintings created using brushes made of animal fur. Other well-known ancient artworks are the Venus of Willendorf limestone fertility figurine and the fragmented ivory Venus of Brasse

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Lesson 1:

ANCIENT ART
• The ancient times can be
classified into three periods:
Paleolithic (Stone Age),
Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age),
and Neolithic (New Stone Age).
Ancient art during these periods
includes all evidence of human
existence and culture before the
emergence of writing.
• Some examples of ancient
art are paintings,
sculptures, and pottery
engravings, which show
social and spiritual
concepts that the early
civilizations believed in.
Lascaux Cave Painting (France: 28,000 and 10,000
BCE)
• Paleolithic artists usually used five main colors in
creating art. These colors are yellow, red, brown,
black, and white and depicted animals, humans, and
archaic symbols. These symbols may be drawn or
sculpted realistically, or represented by giving
emphasis on a subjects distinctive characteristic,
such as the horn of a rhinoceros. Paintings, low
relief sculptures, and engravings with these symbols
adorned areas of caves and rock shelters where
hunter-gatherers lived.
Caves symbolized life emanating from within and
cave dwellers represented their world and beliefs
through visual images such as cave art. Cave art
consists of five principal motifs: human figures,
animals, tools and weapons, rudimentary local maps,
and symbols or ideograms. These motifs are done on
portable objects (engraved, sculpted, or clay modeled)
and immovable surfaces (rock paintings and
engravings). A well-known example of cave art is the
Lascaux Cave paintings. These are abstract
representations done using brushes made from animal
fur.
Venus of Willendorf
• The Venus of Willendorf is one of the
earliest images of the body made by
humankind. It was carved from
limestone and colored with red ochre. It
measures 110 mm in height (4 1/2
inches) and is dated between 30,000 and
25,000 BC. Some theories suggest that
it was used as a fertility charm.
Venus of Brassempouy (3.65 cm high, 2.2
cm deep, and 1.9 cm wide)
• The Venus of Brassempouy is a fragmentary
ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic age,
discovered by Edouard Piette and Joseph de
Laporterie. It is one of the earliest known
realistic representations of the human face in
triangular shape with the forehead, nose, and
brows carved in relief and with no mouth. The
head is done in a checkerboard-like pattern
formed by two series of shallow incisions at
right angles to each other.

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