Art History 1: Prehistoric Study Guide

Identify this Prehistoric artwork:

• Wounded Bison

  (15,000-10,000 BCE)

• Two Bison (13,000 BCE)

• Wounded Bison (28,000-25,000 BCE)

• Hall of Bulls (15,000-13,000 BCE)

Answer explanation

This piece was discovered in 1878 within Altamira Cave in Spain. It was originally believed to be a forgery.

Identify this Prehistoric artwork:

• Spear Thrower with Interlocking Ibex (16,000 BCE)

• Wounded Bison (15,000-10,000 BCE)

• Hall of Bulls (15,000-13,000 BCE)

• Rhinoceros, Wounded Man, and Bison (15,000-13,000 BCE)

Answer explanation

Discovered within the Lascaux Cave in France. The largest bull in this cave mural is 18 feet long!

Identify this Prehistoric artwork:

• Human Figures (30,000 BCE)

• Hybrid Figure (25,000 BCE)

• Human Figures (6750-6250 BCE)

• Hybrid Figure (30,000 BCE)

Answer explanation

Standing at 11 inches, this figure made of Mammoth Ivory was found in Germany.

Identify this Prehistoric artwork:

• Chinese Horse (15,000-13,000 BCE)

• Two Bison (13,000 BCE)

• Rhinoceros, Wounded Man, and Bison (13,000 BCE)

• Wounded Bison (15,000-10,000 BCE)

Answer explanation

Found in the Le Tuc d' Audoubert Cave in France. Considered a high relief sculpture.

Identify this Prehistoric artwork:

• Woman of Brassempouy (22,000 BCE)

• Female and Male Figures (3,500 BCE)

• Woman of Willendorf (28,000-25,000 BCE)

• Human Figures (6,750-6,250 BCE)

Answer explanation

Found in the Grotte du Pape in Brassempouy, France. 1 1/2 inches tall, and made of ivory.

Identify this Prehistoric artwork:

• Woman of Willendorf (2,800-2,500 BCE)

• Woman of Willendorf (23,000-20,000 BCE)

• Woman of Willendorf (15,000-13,000 BCE)

• Woman of Willendorf (28,000-25,000 BCE)

Answer explanation

4 and 3/8inch sculpture made of limestone, found in Austria. Believed to have been a fertility object.

Identify this Prehistoric artwork:

• House at Skara Brae (3,100-2,600 BCE)

• Plastered Head from Jericho (7,000 BCE)

• View of Town and Volcano (6,000 BCE)

• Menhir Alignments at Menec (4,250-3,750 BCE)

Answer explanation

Possibly the first landscape ever created. Found in Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and executed on a plaster covered wall.

Identify this Prehistoric Artwork:

• Stonehenge (2,100 BCE)

• Stonehenge (5,000 BCE)

• (Stonehenge (21,000 BCE)

• Stonehenge (2,800 BCE)

Answer explanation

Believed to have been linked to ceremonies honoring death. Not the largest henge in the world, but certainly the most complex.

Define Naturalism

• An art style that depicts the natural world as a large bear that chants at you ominously.

• An art style that depicts the natural world as it appears.

• An art style that depicts people without any clothes (au naturale.)

• An art style that paints happy little trees.

Answer explanation

Technically you could interpret it to be the other three, but for the sake of this exam let's keep the definition broad.

What is a Composite Image?

• An image that decomposes over time.

• An image that you recycle after using.

• An image that you make via stop motion.

• An image formed by combining different images or views of the subject.

Answer explanation

The stop-motion one would be a.. com-pause-ite image. Badumtss.