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AP Art History 250 questions and answers2024
1. Apollo 11 Stones - Form:
-stones with charcoal drawings of animals
-geometric designs
- 4-5"
Function:
- depict animals
=some of world's oldest works of art
Content:
- animal figures with human legs added on probably later
Context:
- found in Apollo 11 caves in Namibia
-probably were made about 25500 BCE (oldest representational art in Africa) and
buried in these caves
-named because it was discovered at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing
2. Great Hall of the Bulls - Form:
-naturalistic charcoal drawings in a cave
-natural materials: plants, charcoal, iron ore
-twisted perspective
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- human are stick figures while animals are realistic looking
Content:
- pictures animals in motion
- pictures on top of pictures (all from different artists from many time periods)
-cows, bulls, horses, deer
-650 paintings
Function:
- to show an animal ritual (very unusual to find pictures of humans/hunting)
-ancestral animal worship
Context:
-sacred place (deep in a cave)- in situ
-not a dwelling because the creators of these were nomads
-Paleolithic Europe- Lascaux, France
3. Camelid sacrum - Form:
- carved bone
Function:
-spiritual mask
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-house spiritual essence of a hunted animal
-sacrum bone powerful symbolism of Osiris and rebirth- triangle
Content:
- sacrum bone (hip bone) carved in shape of a canine/wolf
Context:
-found in a tomb in Mexico (MesoAmerica)
-14000-7000 BCE
4. Running horned woman - Form:
- canyon painting (layers of painting from different times so makes it hard for
carbon dating)
-depicts motion
Function;
- show this person as holy or a god bc of the horns
Content:
- shows a woman with horns running
- dots on her body represent body painting
- shows a deity wearing ceremonial headgear?
Context:
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- in situ on canyon walls in the Sahara
- 6000-4000 BCE (neolithic)
5. Bushel with ibex motifs - Form:
-painted terra cotta, clay
- geometric forms
- set in registers, controlled and repeated planar composition
Function:
-funerary object
Content:
-dog figures, mountain goat, cranes
Context:
- Susa, Iran in 4200-3500 BCE
-neolithic
-new technology: use of potter's wheel
6. Anthropomorphic stele - Form:
-sandstone
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