Art appreciation chapter 2 prehistoricart

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Prehistoric Western European Art The Stone Age and Its Connection to Today’s Art

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Prehistoric art and how cave paintings can relate to graffiti art today

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Prehistoric Western European Art

The Stone Age and Its Connection to Today’s Art

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Paleolithic Age

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Venus of LausselDordogne, France25,000-23,000 BC

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Venus of Willendorf

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25,000-21,000 BC Limestone 4 3/8 in. high

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http://arthistoryresources.net/willendorf/willendorfdiscovery.html

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Cave of Chauvet

Discovered in 1994 by three cave explorers.Contains over 300 wall paintings, engravings, Paleolithic bear

skeletons, and a bear’s skull set on a rock.Many images of rhinocerouses, large felines, and mammoths

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The Lascaux Cave

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Dordogne, France, c. 15,000-13,000 BC

“Chinese Horse”

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http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php?lng=en - /en/00.xml

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Stonehenge-Constructed during Neolithic Age-Outer circle is post and lintel construction-2800-1500 BC-Megalithic Structure-We still can’t identify its function

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