FTCE Art K12 Knowledge study guide Final Exam 2024/2025 Verified

FTCE Art K12 Knowledge study guide Final Exam 2024/2025 Verified Prehistoric Art - CORRECT ANSWER-Stone age art provides clues about the most basic elements of human culture at the very dawn of civilization. Upper or Late Paleolithic - CORRECT ANSWER-25,000 - 15,000 B.C. The Panaramitee Petroglypher - CORRECT ANSWER-43,000 B.C. Aboriginal abstractions from South Australia. The Venus of Willendorf carver - CORRECT ANSWER-30,000 - 25,000 B.C. 4.5 inch tall carved limestone figure, found in Austria. A fertility figure. The Lascaux cave painter - CORRECT ANSWER-15,000 - 10,000 B.C. Naturalistic pictures of bulls, horses, mammoths, lions and other animals painted in deep underground caves on wet limestone walls with powerderd mineral pigments. The Stonehenge builder - CORRECT ANSWER- B.C. Architecture consisting of huge blue stone megaliths from Wales to Salisbury Plain in England. Considered the mysterious celestial calendar that mark the summer and winter Solstice. The Ancient World - CORRECT ANSWER-Early civilizations developed an art of elegance and complexity. Mesopotamia, 4000 B.C. Egypt, 3000-330 B.C. Greece, 1200-200 B.C. Rome, 700 B.C. - A.D. 500 Mesopotamia, 4000 B.C. - CORRECT ANSWER-God-kings, bearded bulls and ziggurats (giant stepped pyramids) in the cradle of civilization between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. Egypt, 3000-330 B.C. - CORRECT ANSWER-Pharaohs, pyramids and pictograms. Costume jewelry around 1600 B.C. real gems were replaced with paste and cast-glass imitation. Relief of Itwesh, B.C. - CORRECT ANSWER-Egyptian. A small limestone relief only 16 inches high. Carved relief words are juxtaposed with a surprisingly realistic profile of an Egyptian man, seeming to speak these words as in a cartoon bubble. Egyptian Man - CORRECT ANSWER-Static, symmetrical figures painted in flat colors, with the head and legs in profile and the torso that faces front. Greece, 1200-200 B.C. - CORRECT ANSWER-Samples, statues, paintings and pots by art's first Egoist, who set the standards of excellence that are the basis of all Western art, not to mention bank facades everywhere. Cyclades - Bronze Age 2500 B.C. - CORRECT ANSWER-Cyclades mean those in a circle is a Ring of Islands between the Greek Mainland and Asia Minor. These artisans used white marble to carve highly stylized statuettes of skinny nude women with crossed arms. Herring Bone design- 3000 B.C. - incised on Clay jars. Birthplace of Western Civilization - CORRECT ANSWER-900 B.C. - Greek culture, also the birthplace of individual freedom.