HIS T OR I C A L

E N T O F ART
DEVEL O P M
t s t h e L e s s o n s
y o f A r t r e f l e c
"Hist o r z e . "
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P a s t t o s e t
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 LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
I can ascertain the different parts

01 periods of Art.

I can identify the underlying history,

02 philosophy of the era or movement

03 Cite the important characteristics in an artwork

based on the era or movement.
PREHISTORIC ART
(CAVE ART)
(~40,000 — 4,000 B.C.)

• Talented artists with their creative

artworks have served mankind for its
entire existence. Even during the ancient
times up to the early civilization and the
modern world, art has served several
functions in human life.

• "Prehistoric Art" refers to all artworks produced by Lascaux Cave

ancient men before any preconceived
culture and known methods of writing
and record keeping ever existed, simply
meaning art before history.
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 Monochrome

• "Monochrome" cave
paintings are images with
only one color, for example,
black, just like the cave
images found in Chauvet cave
in France.
 Polychrome
• A "Polychrome"
cave painting has two or more
colors, as
can be seen in the
multicolored images
of bison on the ceiling at
Altamira cave Bison
in Spain. at the Ceiling of the
Altamira Cave
 PRE-HISTORIC
PERIODS
PALEOLITHIC
(~3.3 million years ago
PERIOD to around 12,000 years
ago)
• Was the time when primitive cave artworks were
created with the use of primitive stone
tools by primitive men. This period
was commonly represented by the
naturalistic images of prey animals and
the men that hunted them. Prehistoric
caves were also heavily decorated with
painted hand-stenciled rock art.
NEO-LITHIC PERIOD
(10,000BC to
2, 200 BC)
• The Neolithic Period or the shift
from Old Stone Age or Paleolithic to
the moment in a recent study published conditions. The naturalistic art style of
his lifestyle. Neolithic art reflected the great shift in living
the hunter gatherer of the Paleolithic had
been replaced by geometrically abstract
art of Neolithic farmers who started
civilization. Man became civilized when
he stopped being nomadic and settled
down and created communities that
grew crops and tamed wild animals. The
designs used on clay pots were commonly
derived from plant and animal forms.
Paleolithic Period PortrayedPainting
Neolithic Period
PortrayedPainting
Paleolithic Period
Example Artwork:

Venus of Willendorf
Neolithic Period
Example Artwork:

Stonehenge in
England
Gramercy!

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