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Exploring Prehistoric Art: Origins and Evolution of Human Creativity

Discover the fascinating world of prehistoric art from the first skeleton remains to earliest human artifacts and figurative sculpture. Explore cave paintings and decorative pottery showcasing the transition from functional to beautiful items. Journey through time as artists depict animals and abstract patterns, leaving behind a visual legacy that spans continents. Uncover the tools and techniques used by prehistoric artists, including the colors derived from rocks and minerals. Delve into the composition, perspective, and movement techniques employed in their artwork. Learn how the end of the ice age and the Neolithic revolution influenced the evolution of prehistoric art, leading to the development of agriculture, domestication of animals, and permanent settlements.

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Exploring Prehistoric Art: Origins and Evolution of Human Creativity

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  1. Prehistoric Art

  2. First skeleton remains of the common ancestor of Homo sapiens from about 400,000 years ago found in Africa • Oldest human remains from OmoKibish, Ethiopia from about 195,000 YA • By 20,000 BC, humans were on every continent except Antarctica

  3. Some of the oldest human artifacts includes shells thought to make a necklace and incised ochre with geometric pattern (Blombos Cave, South Africa, 75,000 YA)

  4. Blombos Cave, South Africa

  5. Many of the oldest artifacts are identifiable as tools for cutting, chopping, and piercing

  6. Oldest known figurative sculpture is the Venus of Hohle Fels Cave in Germany (35,000 YA)

  7. Early pottery to hold food and water Pottery fragments from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China (about 22,000 YA)

  8. Functional items become decorative and designed for use and beauty Spear thrower carved from reindeer antler (La Madeleine, France, 14,000 YA)

  9. Cave artists painted the big mammals around them Bears, bison,  and reindeer in France (Chauvet, 37,000 YA)

  10. Elephants, boar and horses in India (Bhimbetka, 30,000 YA)

  11. Antelope in Algeria (Tassili n’Ajjer, 10,000 YA)

  12. Giraffes, tigers, zebras in Namibia (6,000 YA)

  13. Do we have an obsession with the animals around us today?

  14. Jeff Koons, Puppy, 1997

  15. Louis Bourgeois, Maman, 1979

  16. Cave artists also painted abstract and geometric patterns (El Castillo, Spain, 40,000 YA)

  17. Was there a code to their visual language? (El Castillo, Spain, 40,000 YA)

  18. A common theme across continents: artists traced their hands Cueva de los Manos, Argentina (13,000 - 9,000 YA)

  19. It’s not a habit that disappeared.

  20. It’s not a habit that disappeared.

  21. How did the cave artists work?

  22. They used rocks and minerals around them for different colors These colors found by Chuck Kritzon near his California home http://www.primitiveways.com/paint_a_mammoth.html]

  23. They made brushes from sticks, bone, rock, fur, and hair Used incised rocks to “erase” or make highlights in stone

  24. They used reeds as blow guns for the first kind of spray painting

  25. Cave artists erected scaffolding to paint images that were difficult to get to Some of the paintings are in tight spaces over 10 feet high

  26. Prehistoric artists paid attention to composition and responded to their site Drew animals in twisted perspective with bodies in profile and heads frontal (Lascaux, 28,000 - 10,000 YA)

  27. The cave artists used repetition to capture movement Edward Muybridge, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, 1881

  28. Horses, Chauvet Cave, France

  29. What happened to the prehistoric artists? • End of ice age + Neolithic revolution around 12,000 YA • Development of agriculture: goats, sheep, pigs, cattle • Domesticated farming • Developing permanent settlements

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