let me paste you my notes on Paleolithic art and anything you need to know about it. Hopefully you can find you're answer in there somewhere
Canon of Paleolithic Cave Art
-Subjects
oAnimals (deer, bison, reindeer, horse), humans, handprints, abstract signs %26amp; symbols (zigzags %26amp; dots)
Animals can be in groups or separated
All caves contain variety of animals
oAbsence of landscape/vegetation
oInconsistent ground lines/baselines
oInconsistent scale
oAnimals shown in profile
oEyes sometime frontal
oTwisted perspective
oVariety of positions/poses/stances
oUse of natural rock shape to suggest shape of animal
oWalls not prepared in any way
oMinimal spatial depth
o“super imposition” – stacking of subjects
Technique %26amp; Location
-found in deepest of cave; deep recesses of the cave
-painting, sculpture, scraping
-handprints made by chewing of the pigment and spraying by mouth onto hand stencil
-Colors used: black, red, orange, white. (no greens or blues)
Uses for Cave Art
-for advancement of tribe; for the good of the entire group
-not for individual glorification or decorations
ofamous cave painting:
Lascaux (Paleolithic Cave painting)
Food Quests
-sympathetic magic; “ritual killing”, “hunting magic”
-enhance hope of outcome through magic
odrawing spears into animals to organize hunts
oanimal fertility, drawing lots of buffalo
-Shamans
oHolds high position
oSaid to communicate with spirit life/next world
oTakes shape of animal half, usually the top
-Believed that “what you do to the image, will happen in real life”
Mnemonic Devices
-it means to have things that help you remember
oplaces in the cave made for rite of passage
operhaps to pass crucial information
oinitiate rights during puberty
opass hunting strategies
Paleolithic Sculpture
-small scale, to be portable
-made of stone, amber, %26amp; ivory
-shape of sculpture usually made by the shape of material
-Woman of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf) – most popular sculpture
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