Kelii Padello
Art History
Longshore
31 October 2014
Prehistoric Art to Medieval Art The theme I have chosen to compare and contrast between two art periods is hunting. Throughout time there have been recorded stories and experiences of hunting recorded upon walls of caves, and stone, left their to share the experiences of the past into the present. Dating back all the way to the cavemen era, drawings of hunting have been found, as well as to animals that were hunted back in that time period. In the prehistoric art piece called (Chauvet Cave hunt), whoever drawn the art didn’t have a flat canvas and beautiful paints to use, to bring the art alive as well as paint brushes. They had UN leveled somewhat flat rock walls to draw on, for paints they used grounded plants or liquids found in plants, as well as mud. To draw these arts most likely used their hands. For the Medieval era society had a way better understanding of art and capturing an image in time to draw. In medieval art (Nobleman in Hunting Costume) you can tell the details in the humans as well as background and foreground of what the image is trying to show. But in Prehistoric arts you can see the general image of what happens, but drawings of a human is pretty much a stick figure. Colors in prehistoric era was very limited due to the knowledge of combining colors to make more colors, so most colors used were probably brown, red, green, and yellow and that is if they have the natural materials. In the Medieval era society knew different types of color schemes as well as