GKR 1053 Design History Ms. Salmiah Abdul Hamid

Learning Units Week 9: 90’s / Millennium Week 10: Material Culture Studies and Design Histories Week 11: Towards a Cultural History of Design Week 12 : Group activities and discussions Week 13 : Group Project Presentation / Discussion Week Week 14 : Group Project Presentation / Discussion Week

Learning Unit Art of the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras

Paleolithic era refers to the “old stone age”, during which human beings were making tools of stone In art, the Paleolithic era is marked by cave paintings and drawing of animals Hunted animals were for food and that the paintings were some type of ritual related to the hunt

Cave Painting Lascaux France

It has also been suggested that the paintings represent primitive calendars or almanacs, “coming age” ceremonies, records of tribal migration, mystic paintings during a shamanistic trance. The art can be categorized as being “public,” – created to be viewed by anyone in the area, such as a public monument, territorial marker, or gravestone

Cave Painting 3

Methods and Materials: Paleolithic artists made objects from a variety of materials. They made simple forms by modifying natural objects – making holes in teeth, shells, and bones, or carving them to form beads or pendants, beads, bracelets The animal figures are both naturalistic and stylized, often showing the details that suggest keen familiarity with the animal painted or drawn.

Woman of Willendorf Carved

Woman of Willendorf Carved

Cave painting 2 Chauvet cave, France

Cave Painting, Chauvet cave, France

Rock Art at a cliff face at Huashan, Southwest China

Ubirr Rock, Arnehm Land, Australia

The blending of colors seen here, such as in the horse's mane blending into the horse's neck, may suggest the paint was blown or 'spit' onto the wall.

Highly sophisticated / Sense of movement suggested through posture

“Neolithic” refers to the “new old stone age” Began when humankind first developed agriculture. Human were settling down into agrarian societies Explore some key concepts of civilization – namely, religion, measurement, the rudiments of architecture and art Animal husbandry

Stone Tools

People settling into permanent communities Generally reflecting the use of tools with some use of metals The prime medium of Neolithic art was pottery Other important artistic expression were statuary of the universal worshipped Mother Goddess and Megalithic stone monuments. Megalith( Prehistoric stone monuments) are found in the Neolithic from Spain to the British Isles and Poland

Sesklo (ancient town, Greece) Neolithic Settlement 6850 BC. This settlement gives its name to the first Neolithic culture of Europe, which inhabited Thessaly and parts of Greek Macedonia.

Neolithic Pottery

Neolithic Rock Art

European Neolithic Art

Maya Neolithic Relief Art

Megalith( Prehistoric stone monuments) are found in the Neolithic from Spain to the British Isles and Poland Contemporary Megalith

Contemporary Megalith

The most well-known is Stonehenge, where the main structures date from the early Bronze age. Most have religious significance. It ended when the discovery of bronze led to the more advanced Bronze Age.

Neolithic Brodgar Stones

Neolithic Seated Figure Ireland Neolithic Figurine

Bronze Neolithic bull figure Contemporary Golden Neolithic bull figure

Neolithic pull toy Modern pull toy

Collect bile Chinese Old Bronze Vehicle Bird Plate

Romania Neolithic Figurine Contemporary Romania Neolithic Figurine

What kinds of art were created during this time? The “new” art to emerge from this area were weaving, architecture, the construction of megaliths and increasingly stylized pictographs that are well on their way to becoming writing. What kinds of art were created during this time?

Art of the Paleoolithic and Neolithic Eras KEY EVENTS ARCHITECTURE VISUAL ARTS MUSIC 33,000 BC Paleolithic Period ( Old stone age) Cro-Magnon peoples, Culture of hunters and food gatherers 10,000 – 4,000 Neolithic Period ( New old stone age) Culture of food gatherers and animal husbandry. House of bricks and mud, wattle and dab construction. 7700 – 5700 first cities appear at Catal Huyuk (Turkey), Jerico (Palestine) 15,000 – 10,000 Cave Paintings and carvings in Southern France (Lascaux) and Northern Spain (Altamira) Stone Carvings (weapons and flint axes) Pottery, painted vases, weaving, Woman of Willendorf carved Bones Whistles, Primitive drums

Arts & Ideas Paleolithic Poster

Stamp

Paleolithic Drawing By Avner Geller

Paleolithic Diet: Reversal of Lifestyle Related Diseases

Darwin Darwinism and Popular Culture: His master-work “The Origin of species”

Neolithic Contemporary Artwork

Neolithic Beach Art

Neolithic Watch Water

ParvizArt-BaniAdam

Contemporary Illustration

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