martes, 23 de abril de 2013

prehistoric art

FIRST QUESTIONThe first forms of art were extremely primitive.Prehistoric people represented their world and believes through images.Art started with the homo sapiens in Africa,Europe,Asia,Oceania and America.Engravings and later pottery reveal not only a quest for beauty but also  complex  social systems and spiritual concepts.
The painting needed a more elaborated and complex technology that the simple outline of a stone   They  used natural colourings of yellow, red tones, ocres and black, with all his ranges and tones.  In the Neolithic the white was added. The colourings were coming from oxides of iron and manganese, from lands and charcoals, red ochre, hematíes, limonita, kaolin, etc, diluted in blood, resins of trees, animal fats and vegetable juices.They used to paint in caves and shelters, only some special persons could paint,the  chamans  or simillar people

SECOND QUESTION


THIRD QUESTION











FORTH QUESTION 

LASCAUXS
With the advent of the Upper Paleolithic period (from 40,000 BCE) coinciding with the replacement of Neanderthal Man with "modern" versions of Homo sapiens, prehistoric art takes a massive leap forward, as exemplified by the cave painting of western Europe, a medium that reached its apogee in the caves of Lascaux














ALTAMIRA



Altamira  is a cave in Cantabria (Spain) famous for its upper paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
Its special relevance comes from the fact that it was the first cave in which prehistoric cave paintings were discovered. When the discovery was first made public in 1880, it led to a bitter public controversy between experts which continued into the early 20th century


 FIFTH QUESTION


  They  used natural colourings of yellow, red tones, ocres and black, with all his ranges and tones.  In the Neolithic the white was added. The colourings were coming from oxides of iron and manganese, from lands and charcoals, red ochre, hematíes, limonita, kaolin, etc, diluted in blood, resins of trees, animal fats and vegetable juices.

sixth question
 
 they used paintures for teaching others haw to hunt or to tell stories to each other, of course it had a religious purpose because only special people as chamans or simillar  people could paint,yes they did because they teached others by paintings