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DIRECTION: Examine the
following paintings on the
next slides and answer the
given question below.
01 Chauvet cave painiting
02 Lascaux cave painting
03 Altamira cave painting
Can you
identify the
pictures in the
caves during
the
prehistoric
era?
Why do you
think ancient
people found
a need to
paint in
walls of
caves?
Prehistoric
art

Art Lesson 1
Cave ● Cave paintings are prehistoric images
found on the walls of caves all over the
paintings ●
world.
Western Europe, especially Southern
France and Northern Spain, is rich with
caves containing Paleolithic artworks.
● Evidence indicates that they started
during the Aurignacian Period (considered
as the earliest modern human culture,
around 32,000 BCE) but reached a high
point during the late Magdalenian Era,
the late period of Upper Paleolithic art
and culture.
Cave of
Altamira
Cave of
lascaux
Cave of
chauvet
Prehistoric
Sculpture is one of the oldest arts of
sculptures ●
man. Experts believed that the earliest
sculpted objects dated from 27,000 to
32,000 years ago were cut from ivory, horn,
bone, or stone. The carvings were
manifestations of spiritual ritual and manner
of worship.
Venus
Some of the early sculpted objects are
Figures ●
statuettes of women. Considered by late
nineteenth-century archeologists to
represent the prehistoric idea of feminine
beauty they were dubbed "venuses" in
reference to the Roman goddess of beauty.
Earliest
known
venus
figures
The Venus of
Berakhat Ram
The Venus of
tan tan
The Venus of
Willendorf
The Venus of
Laussel
Prehistoric
Early men and women were nomadic.
architecture ●
They traveled from one place to enter and
did not build permanent shelter for
themselves.
● Caves were the cast one of human
dwellings.
● Some scholars say that architecture was
born when people earthen mounds and
monolithic stone hinges.
MENHIR OR
MONOLITH
DOLMEN
CROMELCH
●

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Cave painting is one of the early
aesthetic activities of man.
Prehistoric man painted animal
review
figures, abstract signs, and human
hands on walls of caves.
✓ Architecture was born when man
first made earthen mounds and
monolithic stone hinges.
✓ Principal examples of prehistoric
structure are monolith or menhir,
the dolmens, and cromlechs.
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