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Prehistoric Art: Beginning Art for Artists and Designers
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(57 ratings)
240 students

Prehistoric Art: Beginning Art for Artists and Designers

Art before the written word
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 8/2021
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Become better artists, and appreciate and understand art during prehistoric times.
  • Increased appreciation of Art
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.
  • The course enhances human development.

Course content

1 section • 14 lectures • 2h 5m total length

  • Prehistoric Art. Welcome and Table of Contents4:18

    Explore the origins of prehistoric art, its forms, and how surplus enables creation; learn the portable vs fixed art distinction, and survey ice-age cave art and global traditions.

  • Introduction to Prehistoric Art4:19

    Discover the origins of prehistoric art from ancient footprints about three hundred fifty thousand years ago to the Mecca skat and face-like forms, framed by Ruskin’s 'book of their art'.

  • The Two Paths. Objective Art and Non-Objective Art10:28

    Contrast objective art, depicting identifiable subjects like a bison and herdsman, with non-objective art, featuring patterns, curvilinear and straight lines, inspired by Kandinsky.

  • Portable vs Parietal Art1:16

    Distinguish portable art from parietal art to show whether objects moved or stayed. Portable art travels in trade and commerce, whereas parietal art remains at the site and depicts animals.

  • Art of the Ice Age5:18

    Explore ice age cave art from the Dordogne in southern France and the coast of northern Spain, revealing highly sophisticated prehistoric images and beliefs carved in caves.

  • Ice Age Sculpture14:40

    Examine ice age portable art, from carved reindeer and bison to venus figurines, highlighting portraiture, abstraction, tool decoration, and scenes of crossing waters.

  • The Art from the Ice Age Cave of Chauvet11:45

    Explore Chauvet cave art, where yellow ochre, red sienna, and charcoal render horses, bears, and lions with expressive three-quarter views. Learn how economy of line conveys gesture and symbolism.

  • The Art from the Ice Age Cave of Lascaux12:14

    Explore the great hall of the bulls in the Lascaux cave, where horses and stags circle the wall; the lecture examines airbrush rendering, wall textures, and the pregnant mare depiction.

  • The Parietal Art of other Ice Age Caves3:13

    Explore parietal art from ice age caves, including horses in hand created by blowing pigment to form outlines, a parade of reindeer, and a relief lioness that communicates across time.

  • The Art from the Cave of Altamira4:54

    Explore Altamira's ceiling paintings, dating to about 35,000 years ago, discovered by a girl named Maria, with abstract, synthetic bison that adapt to rock shapes.

  • Prehistoric Art in America31:08

    Discover how early American cultures used Clovis and Folsom projectile points, atlatl technology, and Olmec sculpture to shape prehistoric art, then analyze Cumia coast art and Baja California cave murals.

  • Australian Aboriginal Art10:29

    Explore Australian Aboriginal art, the oldest unbroken tradition dating back thousands of years. From painting and rock engravings to sand imagery and dot patterns, it communicates communal knowledge and ceremony.

  • Projects6:18

    Develop drawing skills with 10+ hand-drawn images, apply two-dimensional design to a 9x12 front elevation of a rock and fascia, and explore prehistoric art through public-domain sources and field viewing.

  • Course Catalog5:32

    Browse the course catalog for prehistoric art basics designed for beginner artists and designers. Explore beginning art concepts within the course catalog to kickstart your creative journey.

Requirements

  • An interest and enjoyment in art.

Description

Prehistoric Art. This course is about the best and most unique art from Prehistory. You will be surprised by the amazing art from the past. I will introduce you to the artists who made these wonderful works of art. There are plenty of opportunities throughout the course for you to interact and learn from these artists. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • Students interested in the History of Art and in Art in general

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