GKR 1053Design HistoryMs. Salmiah Abdul Hamid

• Assignment (Group Project) 30%• Midterm Exam 30%• Final Exam 40%

Evaluation

Learning Units

Week 1: Introduction to Design History

Week 2: Paleolithic / Neolithic

Week 3: Arts & Crafts 1800 – 1900

Week 4 : Art Nouveau / Art Deco

Week 5 : Bauhaus / Nazi

Week 6 : 60’s / 70’s / 80’s

Week 7 : Midterm Exam

Week 8 : Midterm Break

Learning Units

Week 9: 90’s / Millennium

Week 10: Material Culture Studies and Design Histories

Week 11: Towards a Cultural History of Design

Week 12 : Group activities and discussions

Week 13 : Group Project Presentation / Discussion Week

Week 14 : Group Project Presentation / Discussion Week

Art of the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras

Paleolithic era refers to the “old stone age”, during which human beings were making tools of stone

In art, the Paleolithic era is marked by cave paintings and drawing of animals

Hunted animals were for food and that the paintings were some type of ritual related to the hunt

Cave Painting Lascaux France

• It has also been suggested that the paintings represent primitive calendars or almanacs,

• “coming age” ceremonies, records of tribal migration, mystic paintings during a shamanistic trance.

• The art can be categorized as being “public,” – created to be viewed by anyone in the area, such as a public monument, territorial marker, or gravestone

Cave Painting 3

Methods and Materials:

• Paleolithic artists made objects from a variety of materials.

• They made simple forms by modifying natural objects – making holes in teeth, shells, and bones, or carving them to form beads or pendants, beads, bracelets

• The animal figures are both naturalistic and stylized, often showing the details that suggest keen familiarity with the animal painted or drawn.

Woman of Willendorf Carved

Woman of Willendorf Carved

Cave painting 2 Chauvet cave, France

Cave Painting, Chauvet cave, France

Rock Art at a cliff face at Huashan, Southwest China

Ubirr Rock, Arnehm Land, Australia

The blending of colors seen here, such as in the horse's mane blending into the horse's neck, may suggest the paint was blown or 'spit' onto the wall.

Highly sophisticated / Sense of movement suggested through posture

“Neolithic” refers to the “new old stone age”

• Began when humankind first developed agriculture. Human were settling down into agrarian societies

• Explore some key concepts of civilization – namely, religion, measurement, the rudiments of architecture and art

• Animal husbandry

Stone Tools

• People settling into permanent communities

• Generally reflecting the use of tools with some use of metals

• The prime medium of Neolithic art was pottery

• Other important artistic expression were statuary of the universal worshipped Mother Goddess and Megalithic stone monuments.

• Megalith( Prehistoric stone monuments) are found in the Neolithic from Spain to the British Isles and Poland

This settlement gives its name to the first Neolithic culture of Europe, which inhabited Thessaly and parts of Greek

Macedonia.

Sesklo (ancient town, Greece) Neolithic Settlement 6850 BC.

Neolithic Pottery

Neolithic Rock Art

European Neolithic Art

Maya Neolithic Relief Art

• Megalith( Prehistoric stone monuments) are found in the Neolithic from Spain to the British Isles and Poland

Contemporary Megalith

Contemporary Megalith

The most well-known is Stonehenge, where the main structures date from the early Bronze age. Most have religious significance.

It ended when the discovery of bronze led to the more advanced Bronze Age.

Neolithic Brodgar Stones

Neolithic Seated Figure Ireland Neolithic Figurine

Bronze Neolithic bull figure

Contemporary Golden Neolithic bull figure

Modern pull toy

Neolithic pull toy

Collect bile Chinese Old Bronze Vehicle Bird Plate

Romania Neolithic Figurine

Contemporary Romania Neolithic Figurine

What kinds of art were created during this time?

• The “new” art to emerge from this area were weaving, architecture, the construction of megaliths and increasingly stylized pictographs that are well on their way to becoming writing.

Art of the Paleoolithic and Neolithic Eras

KEY EVENTS ARCHITECTURE VISUAL ARTS MUSIC

33,000 BC Paleolithic Period ( Old stone age)Cro-Magnon peoples,Culture of hunters and food gatherers10,000 – 4,000 Neolithic Period ( New old stone age)Culture of food gatherers and animal husbandry.

House of bricks and mud, wattle and dab construction.7700 – 5700 first cities appear at Catal Huyuk (Turkey), Jerico (Palestine)

15,000 – 10,000 Cave Paintings and carvings in Southern France (Lascaux) and Northern Spain (Altamira)Stone Carvings (weapons and flint axes)Pottery, painted vases, weaving, Woman of Willendorf carved

Bones Whistles, Primitive drums

Arts & IdeasPaleolithic Poster

Stamp

Paleolithic Drawing By Avner Geller

Paleolithic Diet: Reversal of Lifestyle Related Diseases

Darwin Darwinism and Popular Culture: His master-work “The Origin of species”

Neolithic Contemporary Artwork

Neolithic Beach Art

Neolithic Watch Water

ParvizArt-BaniAdam

Contemporary Illustration

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