Old Stone Age
Name of the Old Stone Age
What is Paleolithic?
Name of the Middle Stone Age
What is Mesolithic?
Name of the New Stone Age
What is Neolithic?
The foundational components or "building blocks" that artists use to create a work of art
What are the elements of art?
The acronym BCE stands for
What is "Before Common Era?"
The two main art forms that categorized this period
What is portable and stationary art?
Characterized by a shift from animal focused art to
What is animal AND human focused art?
Reflects a shift from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles to
What are settled agricultural communities?
A path of a moving point, characterized by its length and width
What is line?
A famous prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England
What is Stonehenge?
Primarily found in the tusks and teeth of animals
What is ivory?
The earliest form of writing
What are pictographs?
What is proto-writing?
Used for storage and decoration, with more elaborate designs and forms
What is pottery?
A 2-D element defined by its enclosed area and perimeter, possessing only height and width
What is shape?
Represents abstract ideas, emotions, or spiritual concepts, moving beyond literal meaning to convey deeper, often coded, messages to the viewer
What is symbolism?
Red and black were common colors used in cave paintings. These colors were derived from
What is ochre and charcoal?
Human figures are often shown in motion, capturing a sense of movement and action
What are dynamic poses?
Large-scale works designed to be grand often serving to commemorate historical events, cultural or spiritual values, or celebrate collective achievements and identities
What is monumental art?
Perfect, mathematically defined elements, characterized by specific features like lines, curves, angles, and points
What are geometric shapes?
The artist who used musical compositions to guide his paintings
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
The dates of the old stone age
What is 40,000 - 10,000 BCE?
The dates of the middle stone age
What is 10,000 - 8,000 BCE?
The dates of the new stone age
What is 8,000 - 2,000 BCE?
Irregular, free-flowing elements resembling those found in nature and characterized by a lack of precise, mathematical dimensions
What are organic shapes?
According to science, dinosaurs went extinct ______ years before the Stone Age?
What is 65 million?