lesson 1 Pre historical art.pptx
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Prehistoric art includes some of the earliest known artworks produced by humans. It includes cave paintings and sculptures from as early as 40,000 BCE by Cro-Magnon people who lived in caves. Common forms of prehistoric art include petroglyphs which are images carved into rock surfaces, pictographs which are paintings on rock, and sculptures such as the Venus of Willendorf and Lion Man figures. This art provides insights into prehistoric cultures from the Paleolithic to Mesolithic eras.
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- 4. Prehistoric Art ▶It is all the art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history
- 5. Prehistoric Art ▶Extreme primitive ▶Cave paintings and sculptures of humans and animals
- 6. Prehistoric Art ▶Cro-Magnon (40,000 B.C.E) ▶World’s first artists ▶Lived in caves
- 7. El Castillo Cave (Spain)
- 8. Prehistoric Art ▶Mesolithic Culture ▶A transitional era between the Paleolithic and Neolithic period
- 9. Shigir Idol (Russia) 7500 B.C.
- 10. Types of Prehistoric Art ▶Petroglyphs ▶Pictographs ▶Prehistoric Sculpture ▶Megalithic structures
- 11. Types of Prehistoric Art ▶Petroglyphs ▶Images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
- 13. Types of Prehistoric Art ▶Petroglyphs ▶It describes an image, sign or symbol which is created in order to express some idea or information.
- 15. Types of Prehistoric Art ▶Prehistoric Sculpture ▶Some prehistoric sculptures is in human or animal form
- 16. Types of Prehistoric Art Venus of Willendorf Lion Man