ART HISTORY OF THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC

Hi everyone
For a month now, I have been posting about art, I have defined it and elaborated some parts and types of art, I have also shared some artistic works here but I have come to realize that I have not given a foundation explanation on art to make it more clearer.

Today I want to discuss about art history starting from the upper paliothic period.
Art as a manifestation of human definition have been analysed by different archaeologists with so many theories on their research, these can be confusing at times due to lots of archaeological theories. Meanwhile I want to give a vivid explanation on the history of art based on paliolithic era.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/paleolithic-study-guide-chronology-172058

Art indeed started with cave men, it was developed by a man living in the cave. Art have different stages which are:

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-paleolithic-art-182389

1. PALEOLITHIC STAGE (OLD STONE AGE): Paleolithic painting was first discovered in 1879 in northern Spain, a local resident was exploring the art cave in his estate with his daughter (MARCELINO DE SAUTUOLA) she was the first to discern shadowing form of painted beast in the cave which her father distorted.
   
   Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/upper-paleolithic-modern-humans-173073
   Hence they moved from place to place in search of food. There life was communal in nature, they build shelter in caves with enhances like rock. Their tent was made with animal skin and plant fibres, stones and bones were used as support. The name given to these period as STONE AGE -was derived from people dependence on tools and weapons made of stones. Man drew and painted on rock surfaces but human figure rarely appeared on paleothic paintings. Animal mostly portrayed on these period have an expressive naturalism. The oldest know painting of these period was found in Chauvet Cave in southern France discovered in 1994 by two men and one woman, the Images were more than 300, like horses, rhinoceros, beer, reindeer, lions, bison, marmot and numerous outline of human hands, the cave was named Chauvet Cave after GEAN MARIETTE CHAUVET, the Chauvet images were about 3000BC and are considered the oldest painting .
   The most famous sculpture of these period is the small lime stone statue of a woman called Venus of willendof

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FEATURES OF VENUS OF WILLENDOF

1. She have a big breast
2. She is dated to 2500 -2100BC
3. She is 11.5cm high
4. She is bulbous over shape, emphazing the
   head, the breast, the torso, and the tiles.
5. Her lower legs were not depicted, the arms
   resting on the breast were not properly
   defined.
6. Her novel was defined with a small hole and
7. Her nipple was not defined.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/art-of-the-mesolithic-182386

1. MESOLITHIC PERIOD (MIDDLE STONE PERIOD)
   The art work of these period were mostly discovered in Western Europe . The most notable event in these period were cultural and environmental changes than artistic legacy. This is because presence of ice seized and temperature became warmer which resulted in the expansion of forest. Some animals hunted during the stone age period died or migrated and the cave men started settling around water and sea foods or fishing became their source of food. Notable paintings of these period were dancers and ritual scene, battle and hunting.the also made a painting of few animals the could remember from old stone age.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/pre-pottery-neolithic-farming-before-ceramics-172259

1. LEOLITHIC PERIOD (MODERN /NEW STONE AGE)
   These period occurred around many sides in the world but seems to have occurred first in the Middle East, it was named NEW STONE AGE, because of new kinds of stone tools that was invented the period lasted between 9000BC and 6000BC from hunters and gatherers to a more notable communal life - in other words they became more of village farmers and headers, and nomadic period was replaced by geometrical abstract art, they practice more of pottery, sculpture, jewelry and architecture.
   Most important momental stone architecture of these period were lime stone tombs discovered in part of France, Spain and northern europe . They were known as (megalith) meaning big.
   It is worthy to note that there pottery were for storing foods and seeds and perhaps that is why pots are among the significant artifacts of this period.