AP ART HISTORY 250 LIST

Apollo 11 Stones — Namibia — Charcoal on stone

• found in rock shelter

• could be used for rituals

Great Hall of the Bulls — French (Lascaux) — Rock Painting

• Found in Lascaux Caves in the South of France

• Twisted perspective/compositive view showing bulls and other animals

• Hunting sucess magic

Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a canine — Tequizquiac, Mexico — Bone

• could be a mythological creature or a medium to communicate with underworld

Running Horned Woman — Algeria (Tassili n’ Aijer) — Pigment on rock

• Female diety is the subject, she is likely performing a ritual

• Twisted perspective/composite view

• She is a diety worshipped for survival, shows relationship with humans and supernatural

Beaker with Ibex Motifs — Iran (Susa) — Terracotta, painted

• Different registers

• Frieze = decorative band

• On the frieze, long neck birds

• Below frieze, skinny doggies

• Central section has ibex, mountain goat

• Funerary object found in gravesites

• Suggested movement, composite view, geometric forms

Anthropormohic Stele — Arabian Peninsula — Sandstone

• Silly lil guy holding a…dagger from his belt

• Grave marker/burial purposes

• Carved sandstone

• Abstract facial features

• Trade thruout Arabia, stylistic influences from other areas

Jade Cong — China — Carved Jade

• Bi disks and cong, bi disks were the circular parts, cong was the hole

• Bi disks represented heaven, the cong represented earth

• Buried with the dead

• Jade was luxurious, for upper class

• Super hard to carve! Had to use abrasive sand to carve out details

Stonehenge — UK (Wiltshire) — Sandstone

• trilithon, two upright stones and a horizontal stone laid on top of them

• 3 periods of construction

• Burial site

• post-lintel technique for trilithons

• burial site and solar calendar (summer solstice, sun shines between pair of stones)

Ambum Stone — Papua New Guinea (Enga province) — Greywacke stone

• Zoomorphic (representing animal forms) figure

• Likely a pestle

• High relief carved feautres,

• Ritual object as well

Tlatilco Female Figurine — Central Mexico (Tlatilco) — Ceramic

• Double headed, representing dualism!

• Shaped by hand, clay

• Burial object

• Also used to promote fertility, nude women figurines were a symbol of this

Terra cotta fragment — Solomon Islands, reef islands — terracotta (incised)

• tattoo like designs

• patterns stamped into clay, when the clay was wet, then fired

• used to store or serve food