if you were a caveman…. what would the word ‘beauty’ mean to you?
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If you were a caveman….
What would the word ‘beauty’ mean to you?
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Art is Beautiful
The Stone Ages
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The earliest known sculpture of a human
• 40-35,000 B.C. Found in Hohle Fels cave near Schelklingen in south-west Germany
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• Why do you think people so long ago would have made a sculpture like this?
• What do you think were the most important things in someone’s life who lived so long ago?
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Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel
• This figure was found in 1936. It is from 32,000 B.C. What do you think it represents?
• Why do you think this?
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What is Beauty?
• Write down a list of 5 things that you find beautiful.
• We will watch some clips from the movie:• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0K4X2k
UOcc• Now imagine that you were alive 35,000 years
B.C.• Write down a list of 5 things that you find
beautiful.
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Task 1• You have to draw your own animal god• Your animal god can be any animal that you think
would be important in your life as a caveman, but it must also be half human!
• Design a front view and a side view in your sketchbooks, and next to your plan explain what you have drawn.
• Carve your god out of foam.• Photograph your work, and explain it in your books.
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Watching animals
• You must watch the following animal clips very carefully, because afterwards you will be drawing from your memories.
• Look at the way the animals move.• Look at the details on their faces and bodies.• Look at the curve of their limbs.
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Homework
• Watch these videos of animals in slow motion:• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OmZX-yTmrw• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbMnPjaF0QE• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztikTbgW0rc• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh9HX0nS0do• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEkFMaB5CA
• In your books try to capture the movement of 3 animals. You can pick your own animal. Sketch one or two pages of animals. Draw without pausing the video!
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• We will now watch some clips from a film by the director Werner Herzog, called ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3A0lNYTdI
• Think about how you could capture the soul of the animal on a cave wall.
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Making colours
• How do you think the images that you saw in the movie were made?
• What media did they use?• What tools did they use?
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Further questions – answer for homework and find images to complement your answers
• What do these arts forms mean to you?Do you find them beautiful, primitive, artistically inspired, or something less?
• Are these drawings art for arts sake, or an attempt by Paleolithic people to reproduce the world they experienced?
• Or do they have some deep cosmic or spiritual significance?Why did these people of 15,000 to 30,000 years ago often create these works in places that were difficult to access?
• Were they trying to communicate with each other, access worlds beyond their own, or engage in hunting magic?Or were they just enjoying themselves scratching and drawing on cave walls?
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For your research:
• Lascaux cave• Altamira cave paintings• Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle• Bhimbetka Petroglyphs• Chauvet cave • Aboriginal Rock Art: Australia
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“We have discovered nothing"
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ARTIST RESEARCH
• Pablo Picasso – Primitivism• Henri Rousseau• Paul Klee
• Choose an image from one of the artists above, and reproduce it (or part of it) in colour, in your books.