AP Art History questions and UPDATED ANSWERS.

AP Art History questions and UPDATED
ANSWERS


Apollo 11 Stones IDENTIFIERS - ANSWER>>- 25,500 - 25,300 BCE
- Unknown artist
- Namibia, Africa

Apollo 11 Stones FORM - ANSWER>>- Charcoal drawings of animals
- Geometric designs

Apollo 11 Stones FUNCTION - ANSWER>>- Depict animals
- Some of the worlds oldest works
- Possibly religious

Apollo 11 Stones CONTENT - ANSWER>>- Animal figures with human legs
probably added later

Apollo 11 Stones CONTEXT - ANSWER>>- Found in Apollo 11 caves in Namibia
- Probably buried in caves
- Named due to being discovered during Apollo 11 moon landing

Apollo 11 Stones MATERIALS - ANSWER>>- Charcoal on stone
- Hand drawn

Apollo 11 Stones PURPOSE - ANSWER>>- Storytelling

Great Hall of the Bulls IDENTIFIERS - ANSWER>>- 15,000 - 13,000 BCE
- multiple unknown artists
- Lascaux, France

Great Hall of the Bulls FORM - ANSWER>>- naturalistic charcoal drawings

, - natural materials
- twisted perspective
- human stick figures and realistic animals

Great Hall of the Bulls FUNCTION - ANSWER>>- shows an animal ritual
- ancestral animal worship

Great Hall of the Bulls CONTEXT - ANSWER>>- sacred place in situ
- not a dwelling because creators were nomads
- Paleolithic Europe
- Found in 1940, opened to public after WW2, closed 1963

Great Hall of the Bulls CONTENT - ANSWER>>- picture animals in motion
- pictures on top of pictures
- cows, bulls, horses, deer
650 paintings

Great Hall of the Bulls MATERIALS - ANSWER>>- plants used as brushes
- charcoal, iron ore, and plants as paint

Great Hall of the Bulls PURPOSE - ANSWER>>- ancestral animal worship

Camelid Sacrum in shape of a canine IDENTIFIERS - ANSWER>>- 14,000 - 7,000
BCE
- unknown artist
- Central Mexico

Camelid Sacrum in shape of a canine FORM - ANSWER>>- carved bone in shape of
dog/wolf
- pig like snout

Camelid Sacrum in shape of a canine FUNCTION - ANSWER>>- spiritual mask
- house spiritual essence of a hunted animal