AP ART HISTORY UNIT 1

• Apollo 11 Cave Stone
• Lascaux Cave Painting
• Terracotta Fragment-Lapita
• Ambum Stone

What is the Context of this piece?

• Oldest known work of art
• A profile of a large cat, or an animal human hybrid
• Charcoal on Stone
• Discovered on the Celebration of Apollo

Form?

• Camelid- an extinct camel like animal
• Sacrum is the bone located at the base of the spine
• bone has been worked to recreate the skull of a dog
• The Sacrum serves as the second skull

Form?

• Tlatilco is noted for its pottery
• flipper like arms, huge thighs, pronounced hips, pinched waists, unclothed except for jewelry
• shows dualism found that is found in later Mesoamerican cultures
• bifurcated female

Context?

• Thin walled vessel thrown on a potter's wheel
• Found near burial site, but not with human remains
• Clan symbol inside horns
• Oversized horn, abstracted/stylized motif

Function?

• At one time the desert was a grassland; climate changes turned it into a desert
• More than 15,000 drawings and engravings found at the site
• Exhibits a composite view of the body
• Indicates a divine figure who brings the rain

Content?

• Anthropomorphic: resembling a human form, but is not human
• religious or burial significance
• found in an area with extensive trade routes
• belted robe from which hangs a double bladed knife or sword

Function?

• Depicts an Anteater embryo in fetal position
• May have been a pestle
• Anteaters thought of as significant because of fat deposits
• maybe depicts a masked human

On which Continent was it found?

• Africa
• North America
• South America
• Asia

Continent?

• Asia
• Africa
• Australia
• South America