(1) What is art & The Stone Age

art

• highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts, artwork, that expresses the author's imaginative or technical skill and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

• Art follows certain standards and principles, involves cultural awareness, and requires connection with the artwork

visual arts

• oldest documented form of art

• painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, etc.

architecture

• often included in visual arts, however, like decorative art, it involves creation of obiect where the practical considerations of use are essential.

small portable object, cave paintings, early sculpture and architecture

the stone age. illustrates early human creativity thru the following:

parietal art

• cave art (found in cave walls and ceilings)

• thru this nakakapag communicate sila

• give message to the community

• petroglyphs or engravings

paleolithic sculpture

• carved bones and ivory flutes

• made of clay, bone, ivory or stone

• simple figurines depicting animals and humans

• highly stylized depictions of women with exaggerated female parts representing fertility ant sexuality

• no freedom of expression

• mabigyan ng message and belief, more on exaggerated female parts

magura cave

• Bulgaria, Bat excrement

• 8000-4000 years ago

serra da capivara

• Brazil, 22,000 years ago

cueva de las manos

• Patagonia, Argentina

• Stenciled hands using the remains of bone-made pipes for spray paint

• 13,000 - 9,000 years ago

altamira cave

• Cantabria, Spain

• Charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings

• 36,000 years ago

• discovered in 1868 by Modesto Cubillas

venus of hohle fels

• Germany, Mammoth husk

• oldest known Venus figuring

• Atleast 35,000 years ago

venus of laussel

• Bordeaux, France

• painted with red ochre and carved in to the limestone

• Gravettian upper paleolithic culture

• approximately 25,000 years old