AP ART HISTORY UNIT 1

Name or Title

• Apollo 11 Cave Stone

• Great Hall of Bulls/ 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

What is the FORM of this piece?

• 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

What is the FORM of the Tlatilco female figure?

• 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

• female with two heads

What is the CONTEXT of the Beaker with ibex motifs?

• 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

What is the FUNCTION of Running Horned Woman?

• 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 this found?

• Africa

• North America

• South America

• Asia

Continent?

• Asia
• Africa
• Australia
• South America