PRE-HISTORIC ERA

A. Painting Cave of Lascaux

 Found inside the caves
- Locates in the Vazeve Valley
 Ceremonial purpose
- Estimated to be up to 2000 yrs
 Religious
- Discover on Sept. 12, 1940
 Animal drawing
- Contains nearly 2,000 figures
 Correct in proportion

 The painting has nearly 2000 figures which can grouped in 3 categories
 Animal
 Human figures
 Abstract design

B. SCULPTURE – may vary according to region and locality

Archeologist – believe that their sculpture is the result of natural evasion and not of
human artistry.

CARVING – may have mythological or religious significant.

C. ARCHITECURE –
 Megaliths - big rock
 Lithos - stone  Provided plenty of Legends and Superstitions
 Megas – big  Stone and Rocks
 Burial Divinity

3 TYPES OF MEGALITH STONE

1. Menhir
Men – stone
Hir – long

 Single stone cut or raw small or large and placed vertically.

 Arranged alone or in groups

2. Dolmens
 Made of two or more upright stone with single stone lying across them.
 Taolmaen – stone table
 Served as grave on altar
3. Cromlech
  Crom – bent or curved
 Llech – slab or flagstone
 Circle of standing stone

EGYPTIAN
A. PAINTING – to make deceased artifile place pleasant.
 Themes include journey to the underworld introducing the decease to the god of the
underworld by proactive dieties.
 Emphasize the importance of the past.
 And the presentation of the past.
Painting on the wall – show events of the life of the king while he was still on earth and the
scenes he except to encounter in the underworld after his death.

B. SCULPTURE
*Symbolic Elements *
1. Forms 5. material
2. hieroglyphics 6. color
3. relative size 7. action
4. location 8. And gesture was always used.

C. ARCHITECTURE – the architecture style was developed during the pe – dynastic period
4000 BC.

3 PYRAMIDS OF 3 KINGS OF THE 4TH DYNASTY

1. Khufu - cheops
2. Khafa - chepren
3. Menkauna – mycerinus
Egyptian Temples – were built to served as place residence for the god.
 CLASSIC GREEK ERA
A. PAINTINGS – mostly commonly found in vases panels and tomb
 They depict natural figures with dynamics composition.
 Subjects battle scenes, mythological figures everyday scenes.
COMMON METHOD OF GREEK PAINTING

 Fresco – method of painting water based and freshly applied plaster usually on wall
surface. Colors are made of ground powder pigments mixed in pure water.
 Encaustic – developed by Greek ship builders who used added and used to paint on
wax hull.
 Panel Painting – painting on flat panel of wood it can be either a small single pieced
or several panel joined.
 Tomb / Wall painting – uses the method frescos in either tempera ( water based or
encaustic wax)

B. SCULPTURE – early Greek were tensed and stiff their bodies were hidden within
enfolding robes.
 After three countries consisted of central shrine or lomn in an aisle surrounded by rows
of columns.

C. ARCHITECURE - temples