I started looking at art on rocks and I found myself ( haha not a stone that looks like me but it was like therapy ) My picture to the left is an elephant 🐘. I now find and film these stones and teach others how to read them.
Please, never take those videos off. I am not a "student", but i really enjoy learning, and this course has immense value to me. Its a really big favor to humanity what u did, sharing knowledge and informatiom for free. I live in a poor country, cant have access physically nor pay for online knowledge, so i am really grateful for people like u.
I once heard a theory that the proportions of venus figures could come from the artist looking down at herself. Breasts and belly would be emphasized from that angle, especially if she was or had been recently pregnant. Hands and feet wouldn’t be, and the head wouldn’t have been in view at all. I don’t know how much I buy that one, but it is an interesting thought to chew on.
Interesting, I've never heard this one before! My art history professor suggested that the feminine reproductive system (primary and secondary characteristics, so breasts, a full womb, and the vulva) was emphasized because it represented fertility and vitality to life. Also veni were often built heavy because fatness was a sign of being well-fed and well-insulated, which were important factors to survival. I really like the idea that the Venus figures were self-Portraits, though. That may suggest why many are so abstract when it comes to their facial features, since the artists had no reference points.
This was a theory I never gave much credence to, then a student did a project with a digital 3D image from that vantage point. It's really fascinating. I the POV matters and gives credence to the idea that the creators are female artists.
Your students are so lucky to have you to be their teacher, and I said this as someone who has done a minor in art. Thanks so much for sharing these videos with us :)
Thank you so much for making these Art History lessons public. I really appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge. You're a talented lecturer and enjoyable to listen to!
I'm a Multimedia student from India. I always wanted to have a clear view on how ART EVOLVED. Thank you so much Mr. Travis for such a contribution! Your teaching style is GREAT!
HAHAHAHA THE MICKY MOUSE BIT. i love it. Thanks for uploading these lectures to youtube!! I've always been interested in learning about art history but never really knew where to start! :)
Thank you SO much! I'm taking online classes (but not at your university) and really miss lectures. Your lectures helped me get a 91% on our first exam from Paleolithic to the Romans. I've watched all your lectures so far and I couldn't learn this much info without them! I'm totally geeking out on your videos! It's a wealth of knowledge! THANK YOU! (wish I could donate more, but I'm a studenr!)
I adore your lectures, you go further indepth than my professors do. I always use your lectures to supplement my learning. Thank you for uploading these videos.
I really enjoyed every second of this and needed to pause a lot to get into what you really want to deliver.. Every words that you put in this video makes me think what I really want to be in this art major. Bless you for bringing these videos free on UA-cam. Thank you.
Thank you for a wonderful lecture! Sharing it on youtube is so generous of you! This is the best material I have seen about prehistoric art :) The only thing I would like to add is that Mezhyrich is the territory of Ukraine, not Russia.
Wow, I've searched for art history materials on UA-cam so many times and only now I found your channel. Many were either unbelievably boring or barely scratching the subject, during your lecture I felt I'm actually learning about the topic AND enjoying the process.
I accidentally came across this channel and immediately watched the entire video, despite having to get up for work in a couple of hours. This is amazing, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have these lectures available for free on youtube. The only downside is that now I will live in a constant fear that they will be taken offline before I’ve watched all of them. Will have to cancel Netflix and binge watch this instead.
I took Art History through the 15th century a year ago and I felt like some things just didn’t go in depth enough cause we had so much to learn, I’m really loving learning more about all this and learning more about the Venus figures.
My favourite parts of this lecture was the Venus discussion ...... and absolutely not your personal vendetta against Mickey Mouse that made me laugh a little too much
Wow, fantastic lecture! I love how deeply this penetrates into prehistory. Many concepts clarified. Thank you, Professor Clark! I look forward to reviewing your other videos.
Great lecture! I haven’t taken an art history class in 20 years (it was my minor in uni), and this was a fabulous refresher with some interesting new tidbits. Ancient art is my fav… after I finished this one I’m heading to see if you have a lectured dedicated to Sumerian art!😁
Although I will not remember all details after listening only once, I absolutely loved learning about our ancestors art, and what it tried to convey. You’re a magician, a storyteller, a shaman and a passionate time traveler. Thank you for sharing and opening our eyes to see, perceive and understand. Thank you for your precious time and generosity.
This is an excellent question. Right now, we can't say for certain but the evidence is that most of these repeated images are made at different times, but not all. I have a friend who does Fremont Indian Pictographs and they often have multiple legs, like six or eight. I think those are meant to convey movement for sure. In the case of these paleolithic paintings it's certainly possible. The ones that are made over a long period of time are probably a result of the redrawing/reviving the original image. But not all are done over a long period of time. So it's definitely possible.
Art is a visual language and it seems that it could have began by watching shadows. The artist could outline the shadow on the ground or on a wall. The creation of new shapes could come about due to people being a bit schizophrenic as the artist make shapes from other known similar elements of drawing. The umbrella could easily turn into a parachute as it has a curved shape and it only needs downward lines converging to form a parachute. It is very creative to form new forms from what is already in existence.
FYI if you are au fait with French slang "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" has a third interpretation, although Magritte probably didn't intend that kind of dirty double entendre
You can literally take free semester long college classes on UA-cam with an actual PhD lecturer. It’s pretty awesome. I was an art history minor who seemed to enjoy it more than my actual major. I particularly enjoyed Asian and Buddhist art history. I’m here to brush up on the knowledge because I always thought that art history was awesome. Thank you for dedicating your time to doing this!
In Australia, the tradition still continue for many groups (the ones who survived the colonisation invasion). The repainting is to keep alive the spirits of ancestors, and the stories of creation and to add new stories. The stories are creation, interwoven with looking after the environment, and responsibility for a totem animal, and to keep alive cultural knowledge about social structures etc.
I'm Logistics student from Poland trying to get to art schools, i didn't had good quality history lessons at highschool, i never knew where to learn all of that and this is litteraly life saver. Your lecures are so interesting to listen, i Hope i'll catch up on things i didn't learned
The lion man as furry art has been my favourite "fact" to tell people for years 😂 it's really funny to hear people's reactions, as long as you don't mind them suspecting you of being a furry yourself, that is.
Thank you for your lectures, it is very useful, detailed and enriching. I wanted to point out thought, that you have slides at the end of your lecture, that say that Mammoth Hut were located in the Mezhirich, Russia. But Mezhirich is not in Russia, it's is a part of territory of modern Ukraine. Even back in 1965 when Mammoth Huts were discovered, the state was called Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as a part of USSR, but it was not Russia, nor Russian Empire at the time. And I remember our school trips to the area. I am aware that you cannot redact this video here. But maybe you could keep it in mind for your future lectures, because it means a lot to us. Thank you.
hey professor, I'm in your class Arth 2710 this semester, and this lecture reminds me of the movie "Brother Bear" and how they had totems or talismans that would particularly be associated with their soul and an animal, very interesting! I wonder if the movie is based on western history?
I have a question. Do we know if these groups of people from 40,000-20,000 years ago were isolated or if they interacted with each other? Did each group of people come up with the idea for cave art on their own? Or did one group start it and the rest followed their lead? If it's the former, it's really fascinating to imagine different, isolated groups coming up with such similar ideas to one another.
Really amazing lecture, thank you. May I draw your attention to the Man of the Petralona Cave in Chalkidiki Greece - maybe worth adding in your lectures. Again many thanks for a very comprehensive and informative lecture.
Thanks for the great lecture! I really liked the sequence of the presented material. There is one big remark, I ask you to listen: You mark the mammoth huts from Mezhirich as if they are in "Russia". Mezhyrich (this is the correct spelling of the name; "Mezhirich" is a wrong English transliteration) is literally the center of Ukraine. Please correct this unfortunate mistake, because I have no idea where this false attribution could have come from.
Excellent lecture, love your perspective. The prehistoric flutes that have been found around the world hint at a rich artistic culture, but the full context has been lost to time, unfortunately
Great lecture. I do think however that the Venus sculptures could be naturalistic. Is it not possible that powerful female figures could have been given food by the community as a votive offering or as a form of tax? Weight gain would therefore become a symbol of wealth power and sexuality as is seen in some African communities? Given a high calorie diet a physique such as is shown may have been possible even during the Mesolithic..
the latest theory is that the animal cave paintings were a used as a calendar, showing the seasons when different animals were breeding etc.and when and how to kill the animals as a teaching tool
There is a really interesting article I recommend reading if you’re interested to know more about what the Venus Figurines may have been for: McCoid, C., McDermott, L., "Toward Decolonizing Gender: Female Vision in the Upper Paleolithic," American Anthropologist 98(2) (1996): 319-326 To summarize, they were liking made by women for other women to reference during pregnancy. It shows some really strong evidence in my opinion, but let me know what you all think. :)
Large amounts or 'rock art' is found all over north American depicting mammoth and mastodons, other animals and human faces. Its incredibly obvious that these artifacts were created by man, however, we do not know who the culture who created these and when. The tools found associated with these type of artifacts look much like Achulean tools. There is no archaeologist I am aware of in north American that recognizes them, but our European colleagues do.
Perhaps Cro Magnons didn’t have the need to draw-the animals because they were a theme of every day life until they had to remember them most of the time when the ice shields kept them for a longer time inside the caves. They had much time to perform their interpretations, though for what I’ve seen, the caves were inhabited or visited time and again for a long period, and the drawings got better and better one on top of the other. So much so that in some caves, you see them move.
Dr. Clark, I've heard there's a theory of the Venus figurines possibly having been carved by women looking down at their own bodies, which could explain the distorted shapes of the figurines. What's your opinion on this suggestion?
This was something I had heard of but I didn't give it much thought UNTIL a student made a computer model of the venus figurine so you could see it from that perspective. Great project and it really demonstrated the principle. Sometimes you really have to see it to understand.
That theory would be quite stupid. Were the women not able to see the shape of other women's bodies and realise the 'distortion'? The figurines were stylised and are not dissimilar to later figurines in other cultures.
@@edelgyn2699 okay, first off "would be" is a bad choice of words, the theory exists in present tense. secondly, you're really going to sit there and call ancient women blind or stupid for the way they chose to create these? it's likely that you were supposed to make it modeled from yourself and not from observing another person. as someone with a female body, the distortion is something that i definitely see when i look down at myself. and from the name ed, i'm going to assume you have a male body and thus have never seen a female body from that specific perspective
@@edelgyn2699 a follow up reply, it also very much sounds like you're assuming everyone was somewhat thin or athletically built and there's no way to prove that. but i can assure you that the mainstream culture's obsession with thinness is rooted in misogyny and racism and it has not always existed as such. these creators were concerned with survival and probably not how much they weighed so it's also probable that by today's standards they were overweight
I'd like to pose a question that I came up with in the shower: If art is an "object" that satisfies me or the artist themselves on a conceptual or abstract level, does this means that, If i paint the walls on my room, would that be art or, at the very least, a practice of art ? Because by painting my walls, i'm tackling a problem of aesthetics: the original color doesn't satisfie me, thefore I change it.
Great lecture, really unpleasant hearing Ethnic groups in Africa, being referred to as tribes, in this day and age. The Yoruba ethnic group, for instance, practiced facial scarification, to stop their people being taken during the transatlantic slave trade, or at least as a means of identification, for their clan of origin within the ethnic group, if they ever needed tonfind their home. Maybe other ethnic groups copied, thinking they were art, but the real purpose was more utility based.
Why do people always connect language with the Mighty Hunter? Hunting is usually a silent activity, or else it fails to catch the prey. Instead, look at the possibility that mothers in groups with their children were the first to use complex language. Since women tend to be much more verbal than men, it seems likely that they were the ones to speak first.
39:05 Sometimes I wonder... 1:08:41 I personally believe it's to denote movement of a singe animal, like an after image. The 1st attempt at animation perhaps?? 1:17:44 This is probably something like a Neolithic Waifu (Aydin Paladin probably has a good vid on that phenomenon if you don't know what it is).
The idea that this is supposed to represent animation is an idea that is gaining credence. There was a recent study on it somewhere. I will have to update the vid. On waifus...well...lol.
@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 Really? Thats cool! I guess my take is there is a link between some of this impulse to create physical representations of ideal females then and now. I'm a sculpture artist and there is a massive market of pornographic/pin up statues/figures coming out of Japan, a place where men are rejecting modern females and dropping out of modern society, in part do to it's unnatural obligations. They are reverting back to things that comfort and them and the genre is defined by the same exaggerated features and minimal face detail, the later being more of an accident of how Anime developed. Maybe these 2 groups of Men have similar responses to a similar style of social/environmental pressure? They have access to VR and the internet and a large population of healthy females but they still collect these small scale statues of what is still, basically the cro-magnon ideal. Idk, just seemed interesting, lol
catch me getting emotional at 1 am about early humans seeing a human looking pebble and keeping it
Yeah these stories of connection with people lost to the mist of time always get me in the feelings.
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I started looking at art on rocks and I found myself ( haha not a stone that looks like me but it was like therapy ) My picture to the left is an elephant 🐘. I now find and film these stones and teach others how to read them.
Please, never take those videos off. I am not a "student", but i really enjoy learning, and this course has immense value to me. Its a really big favor to humanity what u did, sharing knowledge and informatiom for free. I live in a poor country, cant have access physically nor pay for online knowledge, so i am really grateful for people like u.
I'm not part of the class or university or anything, but I'm enjoying this lecture series so far
Thank you!
Yeah i feel u, i'm not even from the same continent as this class.
@@rubenskiiiI’m actually not even from the same planet as this class. Still enjoying it a lot!
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@@fritiofajvide404 We may be related.
This is brilliant, thank you so much for making education so interesting and freely available
Thank you!
I once heard a theory that the proportions of venus figures could come from the artist looking down at herself. Breasts and belly would be emphasized from that angle, especially if she was or had been recently pregnant. Hands and feet wouldn’t be, and the head wouldn’t have been in view at all. I don’t know how much I buy that one, but it is an interesting thought to chew on.
Interesting, I've never heard this one before! My art history professor suggested that the feminine reproductive system (primary and secondary characteristics, so breasts, a full womb, and the vulva) was emphasized because it represented fertility and vitality to life. Also veni were often built heavy because fatness was a sign of being well-fed and well-insulated, which were important factors to survival.
I really like the idea that the Venus figures were self-Portraits, though. That may suggest why many are so abstract when it comes to their facial features, since the artists had no reference points.
This was a theory I never gave much credence to, then a student did a project with a digital 3D image from that vantage point. It's really fascinating. I the POV matters and gives credence to the idea that the creators are female artists.
Bless you for putting this up for free on UA-cam. That's just an objectively good thing
You have made a whole period of art history I never learnt about non cared for come to life in the best way!!!
Your students are so lucky to have you to be their teacher, and I said this as someone who has done a minor in art. Thanks so much for sharing these videos with us :)
It was the “Bleach wipes and 5 months of Toilet paper” when you coughed for me. Hello from Australia!
I enjoyed every sec of this. Better than my college professors!
Dang, I didn't know this class came with a whole socio-psychological aspect, love it
These are the most interesting art history lectures I've ever encountered. Thank you Travis Lee Clark - more please.
Thank god for professers that publish their lectures
Thank you so much for making these Art History lessons public. I really appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge. You're a talented lecturer and enjoyable to listen to!
I'm a Multimedia student from India. I always wanted to have a clear view on how ART EVOLVED. Thank you so much Mr. Travis for such a contribution! Your teaching style is GREAT!
Thank you for having this on UA-cam for free you are a Saint ❤ this is art 😊
Travis, you are an amazing teacher and creator. Thank you for this
HAHAHAHA THE MICKY MOUSE BIT. i love it. Thanks for uploading these lectures to youtube!! I've always been interested in learning about art history but never really knew where to start! :)
Thank you SO much! I'm taking online classes (but not at your university) and really miss lectures. Your lectures helped me get a 91% on our first exam from Paleolithic to the Romans. I've watched all your lectures so far and I couldn't learn this much info without them! I'm totally geeking out on your videos! It's a wealth of knowledge! THANK YOU! (wish I could donate more, but I'm a studenr!)
Art History was my favorite class in Community College, which helped get my art credit. Glad I can go through it again with these videos.
I adore your lectures, you go further indepth than my professors do. I always use your lectures to supplement my learning. Thank you for uploading these videos.
I really enjoyed every second of this and needed to pause a lot to get into what you really want to deliver.. Every words that you put in this video makes me think what I really want to be in this art major. Bless you for bringing these videos free on UA-cam. Thank you.
Thank you for a wonderful lecture! Sharing it on youtube is so generous of you! This is the best material I have seen about prehistoric art :)
The only thing I would like to add is that Mezhyrich is the territory of Ukraine, not Russia.
Wow, I've searched for art history materials on UA-cam so many times and only now I found your channel. Many were either unbelievably boring or barely scratching the subject, during your lecture I felt I'm actually learning about the topic AND enjoying the process.
I accidentally came across this channel and immediately watched the entire video, despite having to get up for work in a couple of hours. This is amazing, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have these lectures available for free on youtube. The only downside is that now I will live in a constant fear that they will be taken offline before I’ve watched all of them. Will have to cancel Netflix and binge watch this instead.
I took Art History through the 15th century a year ago and I felt like some things just didn’t go in depth enough cause we had so much to learn, I’m really loving learning more about all this and learning more about the Venus figures.
My favourite parts of this lecture was the Venus discussion ...... and absolutely not your personal vendetta against Mickey Mouse that made me laugh a little too much
Thank you so much for this. I have always been enthralled with ancient Paleolithic art and I have been waiting my entire life for this lecture
I fell asleep and woke up to this playing. What luck! This was great. I’m looking forward to watching many more of these :)
Wow, fantastic lecture! I love how deeply this penetrates into prehistory. Many concepts clarified. Thank you, Professor Clark! I look forward to reviewing your other videos.
Great lecture! I haven’t taken an art history class in 20 years (it was my minor in uni), and this was a fabulous refresher with some interesting new tidbits. Ancient art is my fav… after I finished this one I’m heading to see if you have a lectured dedicated to Sumerian art!😁
Although I will not remember all details after listening only once, I absolutely loved learning about our ancestors art, and what it tried to convey. You’re a magician, a storyteller, a shaman and a passionate time traveler. Thank you for sharing and opening our eyes to see, perceive and understand. Thank you for your precious time and generosity.
Dr Clark, do you think it is possible that the multiple rhinos can be representing them in motion?
This is an excellent question. Right now, we can't say for certain but the evidence is that most of these repeated images are made at different times, but not all. I have a friend who does Fremont Indian Pictographs and they often have multiple legs, like six or eight. I think those are meant to convey movement for sure. In the case of these paleolithic paintings it's certainly possible. The ones that are made over a long period of time are probably a result of the redrawing/reviving the original image. But not all are done over a long period of time. So it's definitely possible.
This is brilliant. You have so much soul. I am excited to discover more of your channel.
This is some of the best information and delivered in such a way I can understand, visualize and follow in anticipation without pause. Ty
i am enjoying this series of lectures, my art school skipped over prehistoric art for the most part. thank you!
Thanks so much for these videos!!! I love your channel
Art is a visual language and it seems that it could have began by watching shadows. The artist could outline the shadow on the ground or on a wall.
The creation of new shapes could come about due to people being a bit schizophrenic as the artist make shapes from other known similar elements of drawing. The umbrella could easily turn into a parachute as it has a curved shape and it only needs downward lines converging to form a parachute. It is very creative to form new forms from what is already in existence.
FYI if you are au fait with French slang "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" has a third interpretation, although Magritte probably didn't intend that kind of dirty double entendre
These lessons are amazing. Thank you so much
Loved the lecture and the graphics. Keep this on!
Holy shiet, you are capable to make everything interesting! Thank you
This lecture is amazing! Thank you so much!!!!
You can literally take free semester long college classes on UA-cam with an actual PhD lecturer. It’s pretty awesome. I was an art history minor who seemed to enjoy it more than my actual major. I particularly enjoyed Asian and Buddhist art history. I’m here to brush up on the knowledge because I always thought that art history was awesome. Thank you for dedicating your time to doing this!
In Australia, the tradition still continue for many groups (the ones who survived the colonisation invasion). The repainting is to keep alive the spirits of ancestors, and the stories of creation and to add new stories. The stories are creation, interwoven with looking after the environment, and responsibility for a totem animal, and to keep alive cultural knowledge about social structures etc.
This is soooo helpful for my class. Thank you very much!
Brilliant lecture. Greeting from Belarus.
Brilliant, thank you very much 👏👏
Fascinating lecture!
Good job, well done. Good bless you
Excellent work!
hi! just wanna say i put your video in the background while doing my hw, your voice so soothing!! thanks for the lectures too!
I'm Logistics student from Poland trying to get to art schools, i didn't had good quality history lessons at highschool, i never knew where to learn all of that and this is litteraly life saver. Your lecures are so interesting to listen, i Hope i'll catch up on things i didn't learned
learning that furry art isn't new is mildly terrifying
The lion man as furry art has been my favourite "fact" to tell people for years 😂 it's really funny to hear people's reactions, as long as you don't mind them suspecting you of being a furry yourself, that is.
Mickey Mouse is the current depiction of an Eldritch Horror. Change my mind.
No disagreement here. lol.
Lovely lecture and slides! I would be interested in watching Travis along side the slides as he gives the lecture.
Thank you for your lectures, it is very useful, detailed and enriching. I wanted to point out thought, that you have slides at the end of your lecture, that say that Mammoth Hut were located in the Mezhirich, Russia. But Mezhirich is not in Russia, it's is a part of territory of modern Ukraine. Even back in 1965 when Mammoth Huts were discovered, the state was called Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as a part of USSR, but it was not Russia, nor Russian Empire at the time. And I remember our school trips to the area. I am aware that you cannot redact this video here. But maybe you could keep it in mind for your future lectures, because it means a lot to us. Thank you.
I'm watching this from the Netherlands, not gonna get any off this on a test but i just love the subject.
this is brilliant
love this
brilliant!!!!!!!
I'm in AP art history, it's lunch, 2 hours before the test. Art history condensed into 2 hours suddenly doesn't sound bad at all.
I like the idea that the Venus of Willendorf could possibly have been a self portrait :D
Important to point out that Mezhirich or Mezhyrich (1:38:10) is a village in Ukraine, precisely, in central Ukraine near Cherkasy Oblast.
hey professor, I'm in your class Arth 2710 this semester, and this lecture reminds me of the movie "Brother Bear" and how they had totems or talismans that would particularly be associated with their soul and an animal, very interesting! I wonder if the movie is based on western history?
I have a question. Do we know if these groups of people from 40,000-20,000 years ago were isolated or if they interacted with each other? Did each group of people come up with the idea for cave art on their own? Or did one group start it and the rest followed their lead? If it's the former, it's really fascinating to imagine different, isolated groups coming up with such similar ideas to one another.
Really amazing lecture, thank you. May I draw your attention to the Man of the Petralona Cave in Chalkidiki Greece - maybe worth adding in your lectures. Again many thanks for a very comprehensive and informative lecture.
Thanks for the great lecture! I really liked the sequence of the presented material. There is one big remark, I ask you to listen: You mark the mammoth huts from Mezhirich as if they are in "Russia". Mezhyrich (this is the correct spelling of the name; "Mezhirich" is a wrong English transliteration) is literally the center of Ukraine. Please correct this unfortunate mistake, because I have no idea where this false attribution could have come from.
Looking to buy some art history textbooks. Which do you recommend?
Thanks for all these amazing videos. Just one silly note: the discovery of the Altamira's paintings didnt happened as you told.
Thank you
I'm not even in this class. I don't even go to this school. I don't even live in Utah.
thankyou
I like the theory that the Lascaux Cave bull is a constellation
Excellent lecture, love your perspective. The prehistoric flutes that have been found around the world hint at a rich artistic culture, but the full context has been lost to time, unfortunately
Great lecture. I do think however that the Venus sculptures could be naturalistic. Is it not possible that powerful female figures could have been given food by the community as a votive offering or as a form of tax? Weight gain would therefore become a symbol of wealth power and sexuality as is seen in some African communities? Given a high calorie diet a physique such as is shown may have been possible even during the Mesolithic..
How can this video be free
the latest theory is that the animal cave paintings were a used as a calendar, showing the seasons when different animals were breeding etc.and when and how to kill the animals as a teaching tool
There is a really interesting article I recommend reading if you’re interested to know more about what the Venus Figurines may have been for:
McCoid, C., McDermott, L., "Toward Decolonizing Gender: Female Vision in the Upper Paleolithic," American Anthropologist 98(2) (1996): 319-326
To summarize, they were liking made by women for other women to reference during pregnancy. It shows some really strong evidence in my opinion, but let me know what you all think. :)
22:33 is this really a finch using a stick? If so, let it fly out of my screen and let it use its little stick to catch bugs elsewhere.
Large amounts or 'rock art' is found all over north American depicting mammoth and mastodons, other animals and human faces. Its incredibly obvious that these artifacts were created by man, however, we do not know who the culture who created these and when. The tools found associated with these type of artifacts look much like Achulean tools. There is no archaeologist I am aware of in north American that recognizes them, but our European colleagues do.
Perhaps Cro Magnons didn’t have the need to draw-the animals because they were a theme of every day life until they had to remember them most of the time when the ice shields kept them for a longer time inside the caves. They had much time to perform their interpretations, though for what I’ve seen, the caves were inhabited or visited time and again for a long period, and the drawings got better and better one on top of the other. So much so that in some caves, you see them move.
Mezhirich is located in Ukraine, not Russia.
Dr. Clark, I've heard there's a theory of the Venus figurines possibly having been carved by women looking down at their own bodies, which could explain the distorted shapes of the figurines. What's your opinion on this suggestion?
This was something I had heard of but I didn't give it much thought UNTIL a student made a computer model of the venus figurine so you could see it from that perspective. Great project and it really demonstrated the principle. Sometimes you really have to see it to understand.
That theory would be quite stupid. Were the women not able to see the shape of other women's bodies and realise the 'distortion'? The figurines were stylised and are not dissimilar to later figurines in other cultures.
@@edelgyn2699 okay, first off "would be" is a bad choice of words, the theory exists in present tense. secondly, you're really going to sit there and call ancient women blind or stupid for the way they chose to create these? it's likely that you were supposed to make it modeled from yourself and not from observing another person. as someone with a female body, the distortion is something that i definitely see when i look down at myself. and from the name ed, i'm going to assume you have a male body and thus have never seen a female body from that specific perspective
@@edelgyn2699 a follow up reply, it also very much sounds like you're assuming everyone was somewhat thin or athletically built and there's no way to prove that. but i can assure you that the mainstream culture's obsession with thinness is rooted in misogyny and racism and it has not always existed as such. these creators were concerned with survival and probably not how much they weighed so it's also probable that by today's standards they were overweight
Worth mentioning Coliboaia cave: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coliboaia_Cave
1:08:01 I think they invented cinematography. (I mean I think they redraw it just to show motion)
I'd like to pose a question that I came up with in the shower:
If art is an "object" that satisfies me or the artist themselves on a conceptual or abstract level, does this means that, If i paint the walls on my room, would that be art or, at the very least, a practice of art ? Because by painting my walls, i'm tackling a problem of aesthetics: the original color doesn't satisfie me, thefore I change it.
There is a mistake in this lecture. Mezhirich (Mammoth Hut) is a village in Ukraine.
I’m not even In college yet I’m subscribed and listening-
Great lecture, really unpleasant hearing Ethnic groups in Africa, being referred to as tribes, in this day and age.
The Yoruba ethnic group, for instance, practiced facial scarification, to stop their people being taken during the transatlantic slave trade, or at least as a means of identification, for their clan of origin within the ethnic group, if they ever needed tonfind their home. Maybe other ethnic groups copied, thinking they were art, but the real purpose was more utility based.
"women don't look like this", I laughed in that's-a-false-claim. Love these lectures!
"anxiety, depression, it could also be positive: hope...hope for an afterlife" Don't kill me lmao
Man, thanks, the only mistake I’ve spotted is: Mezhirich, Russia, which should have of course be: Mezhyrich, Ukraine, please double check.
"cmon, get off it its a pipe" 😹😹😹 really doe
I found a loophole in not thinking of an elephant. I thought of a mammoth, which is not an elephant
9:37 it's loss again isn't it?
You're telling me all artists are cheaters??? I KNEW IT!
Why do people always connect language with the Mighty Hunter? Hunting is usually a silent activity, or else it fails to catch the prey. Instead, look at the possibility that mothers in groups with their children were the first to use complex language. Since women tend to be much more verbal than men, it seems likely that they were the ones to speak first.
39:05 Sometimes I wonder...
1:08:41 I personally believe it's to denote movement of a singe animal, like an after image. The 1st attempt at animation perhaps??
1:17:44 This is probably something like a Neolithic Waifu (Aydin Paladin probably has a good vid on that phenomenon if you don't know what it is).
The idea that this is supposed to represent animation is an idea that is gaining credence. There was a recent study on it somewhere. I will have to update the vid.
On waifus...well...lol.
@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 Really? Thats cool!
I guess my take is there is a link between some of this impulse to create physical representations of ideal females then and now.
I'm a sculpture artist and there is a massive market of pornographic/pin up statues/figures coming out of Japan, a place where men are rejecting modern females and dropping out of modern society, in part do to it's unnatural obligations. They are reverting back to things that comfort and them and the genre is defined by the same exaggerated features and minimal face detail, the later being more of an accident of how Anime developed.
Maybe these 2 groups of Men have similar responses to a similar style of social/environmental pressure? They have access to VR and the internet and a large population of healthy females but they still collect these small scale statues of what is still, basically the cro-magnon
ideal. Idk, just seemed interesting, lol
I'm thinking hand-axes are probably art. I think most have never been used. There are millions of them. Maybe it's for skipping on water.
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