Survey of Western Art o What is Art Not Answerable Visual Analysis Form o What does it look like o Color texture shape etc Content o What is it about o What message does it convey Context o Why is it important o Who made it o Who paid for it Paleolithic and Neolithic art and architecture 30 00 1600 BCE o Pre history before a written record o Makapansgat pebble resembling a human face c 3 000 000 BCE Jasperite South Africa Extremely controversial Art or not o Paleolithic sites all throughout Europe o Reconstruction of a mammoth bone structure c 1 million to 10 000 BCE o Woman from Brassempouy France c 30 000 BCE Ivory o Lion Human Germany c 30 000 BCE Ivory o Woman from Willendorf c 22 000 21 000 BCE Austria Limestone talisman Possible symbol o fertility Possibly a symbol of beauty or mother Tiny flecks of ochre Possibly originally painted o Woman from Les Pugue o o o o o o o o o France C 25 000 BCE Painted limestone Woman holding a bison horn Laussel France C 25 000 BCE Painted limestone Same dimensions as Woman from Willendorf Bison Detail from the ceiling at Altamira Cave Spain 12 000 11 000 BCE hour into the cave Horses Rhinoceroses and Aurochs Chauvet cave France c 30 000 28 000 BCE Paint on limestone Earliest cave painting we know of Contour value overlapping Animals drawn with deep dark outlines Chalk Light appearance high value Charcoal Dark appearance low value Lion panel Human hand Chauvet cave France c 30 000 BCE Hall of Bulls Detail from paintings at Lascaux Cave France c 15 000 BCE twisted perspective Bird Headed man with Bison Detail from paintings in Lascaux Caves France Shaman c 15 000 BCE Limestone lamp and plan Lascaux Cave France Woman and Man Cernavoda Romania Neolithic c 3500 BCE ceramic 8 000 BCE o o o o Paleolithic 8 000 BCE Neolithic Compound at Skara Brae Scotland c 3100 2000 BCE House Interior Course Rows of stone Corbeling Stack stones over alternating seams Stonehenge Salisbury Plain England c 2750 1500 BCE Monolith Big rock Cromlech Different language interpretation for Monolith Heel Stone last stone placed Inside the circle Post and lintel construction Mortise and tenon joints Horse and Sun Chariot Denmark c 1800 1600 BCE Bronze