A.P. Art History Art Cards – Flashcards

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 25,500-25,300 B.C.E. Function: no clear information, could be symbolic for language or writing, could be used for ritualistic purposes Form: rock painting and engraving or incising, twisted perspective, no clear picture of the animal, not identifiable Content: stone slab/tablet with some type of canine or feline Context: art of time period Medium: Charcoal on stone Patron: unknown Location: Nambia

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 14,000-7,000 B.C.E. Function: Used for hunting magic or religious mask Form: piece of bone used to carve a skull Content: carved skull of a canine's head in bone Context: used for good luck during a hunt or used for ritualistic purposes Medium: Bone Patron: unknown Location: Tequixquiac, central Mexico

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 4,200-3,500 B.C.E. Function:burial piece, found in cemeteries Form: linear patterns, geometric shapes, exaggerated elements of figures, twisted perspective, decorations mimics shape Content: cup with animal figures Context: used for burial purposes, goats or animals are important Medium: Painted terra cotta, clay Patron: unknown Location: Susa, Iran

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: Fourth millennium B.C.E. Function: served as an idol, or a grave marker for someone who died, a guardian Form: elements that emphasize height, lines follow curve shows dimension, stylized, geometric, symmetrical Content: human like figure made of stone Context: guardian figure, early piece from Arabian Peninsula Medium: sandstone Patron: unknown Location: Arabian Peninsula

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 3,300-2,200 B.C.E. Function: piece used for religious ceremonies Form: symmetrical, circle inside of square, hole through center, line patterns, face motif, incised lines, suggest register Content: Carved jade with a circle in a square, registers Context: Early Chinese jade piece used for religious or ceremonial purposes Medium: Carved jade Patron: unknown Location: Liangzhu, China

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: c. 2,500-1,600 B.C.E. Function: used for worship, astronomical clock, clock Form: post and lintel construction, stones put in place with purpose, used tenon and mortise to keep stones on place Content: large stones purposefully placed in a circle Context: arranged in circular pattern for burial site or astronomical clock, early Neolithic Medium: Sandstone, megalift Patron: unknown Location: Wiltshire, UK (Neolithic)

Period: Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 6,000-4,000 B.C.E. Function: religious ceremony, hunting, fertility Form: heads are round, divine horn, outlined in white, rain or grain, stylized Content: women running with horns Context: early African piece, used for rituals Medium: Pigment on rock Patron: unknown Location: Tassili n' Ajjer, Algerian

Period: Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. Function: used for rituals, hunting magic for a better success for the hunt, hunter gathering Form: Animals are in profile, twisted perspective to see horns and far legs, animals are dark, light background Content: a scene of animals perhaps not trying to be caught by a hunter Context: Paleolithic piece representing the hunt for animals or rituals the animals served for Medium: Rock painting Patron: unknown Location: Lascaux, France

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: c. 1,500 B.C.E. Function: mortars, pestles, freestanding figures, religious ceremony Form: handheld, geometric, smooth, bilateral symmetry, pestle, oval center Content: pestle in shape of an animal Context: Early Pacific art for religious or ritualistic purposes Medium: Volcanic rock, Greywacke Patron: unknown Location: Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 1,200-900 B.C.E. Function: burial, fertility, represent twins Form: curved lines, geometric, no distinct hands or feet, wide hips, details in hair or hat Content: distorted piece of a two women Context: Early piece in Mexico, ceramic piece to represent fertility or burial Medium: Ceramic Patron: unknown Location: Central Mexico, site of Tlatlico

Period: Unit 1: Prehistoric Art Artist: unknown Date: 1,000 B.C.E. Function: used as a ritual tablet, used for worship, religious Form: No set shape, dotted lines to create images, linear and geometric, red pattern, chiseled Content: doted lines on terra cotta to show images Context: Pacific early piece, used for worship and rituals Medium: Terra cotta Patron: unknown Location: Lapita, Solomon Islands, Reef Islands