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    ‭Chasing Traces - Aug 29‬

    ‭The Canon‬ ‭-Artists, regions, cultures interconnected and important to art history‬
    ‭-criticized for being male- and eurocentric‬

    ‭Paleolithic‬ ‭-2.5 millionBCE - 10,000BCE, use of stone tools‬

    ‭Lascaux paintings (france)‬ -‭ Some of the earliest known and earliest discovered works‬
    ‭-Depicted animals including horses, deer, bison, and bulls‬
    ‭-Animals patterns may represent fertility cycles and seasonality‬
    ‭-Only human form in the cave is a bird-headed man hunting a bison, appears‬
    ‭to be fallen, decorated bird on a stick. Rare instance of storytelling and‬
    ‭sequence‬
    ‭-no unified theory, may be for teaching how to hunt, telling stories, or‬
    ‭recording events‬
    ‭-Neanderthals may have painted as well, and coexisted with Homo Sapiens‬
    ‭for tens of thousands of years‬
    ‭-Cave filled with CO2 gas that comes and goes, hallucinations may have‬
    ‭played a part in the images‬

    ‭Chauvet paintings (france)‬ ‭-30 animal species depicted, including many horses‬
    ‭-horses redrawn and scraped away until the artist is seemingly satisfied,‬
    ‭indicating time and effort was put into the depiction‬
    ‭-Much detail and shading is used‬
    ‭-Bored holes in the walls indicating use of scaffolding‬
    ‭-Blending and merging of categories and species, human and animal, spirit‬
    ‭and living‬
    ‭-Bear skull placed on seeming altar facing entrance, with charcoal possibly‬
    ‭used as incense‬
    ‭-There are claims that prehistoric art began very suddenly in this valley,‬
    ‭though disputed‬
    ‭-footprints of an adolescent found‬

    ‭ lombos cave (south africa)‬


    B -‭ painted and carved stones fragments, decorated stones ground into pigment‬
    ‭70,000 BCE‬ ‭-earliest known drawing by human hands‬
    ‭-drawn using carved styluses rather than water-based pigments‬

    ‭ arty pig (indonesia)‬


    W ‭-figurative depiction of a wild hog‬
    ‭43,900BCE‬

    ‭ ueva de la Manos‬
    C -‭ hand prints created by blowing pigment over hand on wall to create‬
    ‭(Argentina) 7300BCE-700AD‬ ‭silhouette‬

    ‭Art analysis‬ -‭ ”art” may be an anachronistic term for such cultures, may be inaccurately‬
    ‭projecting modern values where it is not relevant‬
    ‭-much bias and assumption is involved when analysing art‬
    ‭-Formal analysis: what do you see? Form, medium, size, depiction, color, line‬
    ‭value, texture‬
    ‭-Iconographical analysis: what do the visual qualities represent/symbolize?‬
    ‭Motifs, symbols, themes, mood, reaction‬
    ‭-Iconological analysis: why did the artist create the work/what does it mean?‬
    ‭What does it tell us about the artist, culture, or time?‬

    ‭Woman of Willendorf‬ ‭-nude with exaggerated feminine features (large breasts and hips)‬
    ‭(austria) 43,000BCE‬ -‭ easily transportable, stone from italy indicating it was brought with a nomadic‬
    ‭people‬
    ‭-no facial features, only patterns representing hair or woven headwear‬
    ‭-very little is known, but much has been assumed and placed on it by‬
    ‭interpretations and names‬

    ‭Neolithic‬ -‭ 10,000BCE-2,500BCE, beginning with agriculture and ending with‬


    ‭metalwork‬

    ‭Çatalhöyük‬ -‭ Early city with multi-story clay housing, crop and animal farming‬
    ‭-Wall paintings depicting scenes and stories, many human figures, may‬
    ‭depict transition away from hunting and into farming‬
    ‭-Animal bones lined walls might show desire to remember the past of hunting‬
    ‭-Another painting could be early map or landscape, may include volcanic‬
    ‭eruption and source of obsidian‬
    ‭-Polished obsidian mirrors‬
    ‭-This culture may see itself as separate from the natural world, unlike those in‬
    ‭Lascaux‬
    ‭-Earlier carvings enveloped in their surroundings, later ones separate “in the‬
    ‭round”‬

    ‭ tonehenge (britain)‬
    S -‭ Many layers of construction over millennia‬
    ‭3,000-1500BCE‬ ‭-Thought that Merlin built it‬
    ‭-Belief of druid temple rejected‬
    ‭-Theorized to be an observatory or calendar, lining up with solar and lunar‬
    ‭solstice‬
    ‭-Now agreed to likely be a funeral site for cremation‬
    ‭-Stones came from hundreds of miles, requiring immense planning and effort‬
    ‭to build‬
    ‭-Site has been disturbed by breaking and removal of stones and digging‬
    ‭during Roman and British rule‬

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