ARTH 1380 1nd Edition Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture I. Art history as history.A. Differences between Art History and HistoryB. Reliability of past records.II. Lower Paleolithic Period.III. Middle Paleolithic Period.IV. Upper Paleolithic Period.A. Evolution in lifestyle.B. Shelters and huts used by homo sapiens sapiens.C. Discovered artworks Outline of Current Lecture V. Paleolithic sculptures. VI. Cave PaintingsA. quote from the New York JournalB.Professor Costello’s experience with cave paintingsC.Different type of cave paintingsVII. Interpretations of cave paintings.Current LectureV. – The sculpture of the woman of Brassempouy is different from the other woman sculptures because this one has a face and is just the head, it is similar because it has thesame texture design and is still abstract.- The bison with turn head is the end of a spear thrower, the design features reductive technology and is very detailed it gives the bison a sense of vitality with turned head.- This piece is very masterful it has shadows to emphasize details it is an example of how Paleolithic art was detailed and complex.- Paleolithic art did not improve with time it was complex and masterful from the beginning to the end.- Bison is two sculptures in a cave it is a relief sculpture it is very realistic and when a shadow is cast there almost seems to be movement from them.VI. – The quote from the New York Journal , First Impressions, by Judith Therman describes how a deep cave is a scary and dangerous place and that there are many possibilities for harm.These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- The caves are found deep in a cave there is a theory that perhaps there were paintings in cave mouths, but that they deteriorated and were lost.- Professor Costello went to a cave in France and says that the tourist are only allowed incertain caves.- They have to travel in small groups to not damage the paintings.- The paintings are about a mile into the cave- The area where the paintings are found is acoustic, so it emphasizes the idea that creating paintings was more than just that it has a deeper meaning it was an event.- The wall paintings in Chavuet Cave are one of the oldest cave paintings.- The overlaps in the painting give it a 3-dimensional shape.- It is not narrative art.- The lines in the painting are very complex.- To create these paintings they would put the pigment in their mouth and use a type of airbrush technique.- This technique makes cave paintings very intimate.- There are some high cave paintings that scaffolds were needed to reach it reinstates the idea that this was more than activity done for boredom, but that it had a greater meaning.- The cave paintings consisted of mostly animals like horses, bison, cattle-There is evidence that they mostly ate smaller animals and they drew animals that weren’t really part of their diet.- The man, injured bison painting is different this cave painting is narrative and has a human- one interpretation is that the it was for art’s sake that people liked art so they would create it.-Another interpretation is that it was totemism which is clan representation with a certain animal spirit-Sympathetic magic which is hunting magic to have a good hunt- Fertility magic the idea to use this art for a successful birth- The third interpretation is the structuralist theory which is a way to find patterns in binary- The fourth theory is shamanism this has religious ties that shaman’s would take an animal state.Key TermsReductive technology- the process of having an object and creating based on that not adding to it just chipping away to create art.Relief sculpture- carved or molded from a surface as to stand outNarrative art- tells a story of the art
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