ART 100: Lectures Board Notes for Exam 1;

Understanding reasons or purposes for art; aesthetics. Realism and Idealism.

Styles of Art (4); Realism, Symbolism, Abstract, Non Objective

Elements of Art (7); line, shape, mass, space, value, color, texture

Principles of Art (8); unity, balance, rhythm, pattern, contrast, emphasis, movement, time

Composition

Content

Prehistoric Art:

Paleolithic/Neolithic

Circa

First sculpture processes; additive vs. subtractive

Freestanding vs Relief sculpture

Woman of Willendorf

Chauvet and Lascaux caves; mural paintings. Naturalism. Representation.

Stonehenge; post and lintel construction

Art of the Ancient Near East:

Mesopotamia; city-states – Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria

Sumer - cuneiform writing and arithmetic begins.

Ceramics/clay, potter’s wheel, kiln

Bronze (alloy of copper and tin)

Ziggurat

Sumerian worshipper statue. Iconography.

Hieratic scale – Akkadian ruler

Stele of Hammurabi
Art of Egypt:

Time periods; Old, Middle, New Kingdoms

Narmer palette

Great Pyramids at Giza

The Sphinx

Khafre statue (carving), understand use of the ‘ka’ statue.

Mummy

Papyrus. Pictograph.

Fresco painting and egg tempera

Funerary temple of Hatshepsut

Akhenaten and Nefertiti

King Tut

Early Aegean Art:

Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean Art

Cyclades figurine

Minoan Crete, Palace at Knossos

Bull Leaping fresco

Tholos tomb (beehive shape)

Corbelled stone

Lion Gate at Mycenae