Art

                                 Art From Long Ago: Stone Age 

 We are "flying"with Timmy Time Traveller through prehistoric time, as if in a time machine. Students understand how man is shaped by his environment, how man has transformed his world, and how art was a part of the human process. They understand that visual arts are a form of communication.

    

These are some of the elements of art we have worked on:

Colour: Observe the use of colour.

Line: Identify and use different lines: straight, zigzag, curved, wavy, spiral, thick, thin.

Observe how different lines are used; tracing and outlining.

Shape: Recognize basic geometric shapes – square, rectangle, triangle, circle, oval – in nature, man-made objects, and artwork.

Texture: Describe qualities of texture (as, for example, rough, smooth, bumpy, scratchy, slippery, etc.)

   Students understand that everyone has their own opinion about what they think is "good" art.

 ONCE UPON A TIME......

 People were nomads, they didn't live in one place, no, they were constantly on the move in search of animals to hunt.

As they were hunters and gatherers, they needed to follow the animals in order to capture them and at the same time they collected wild fruits found on the way.
They lived in tribes, in small groups formed by families, and they found refuge in caves where they would paint on the wall. These paintings were done with a mixture of charcoal, earth, animal fat and water....

FIRST CAVE PAINTINGS 

 Look here are a few examples…, its absolutely fascinating to think that these first paintings, these first artistic representations, were drawn thousands of years ago. Don't you think?

Both Paleolithic men and women wore animal skins which they had hunted previously and they used tools such as an ax and spears made out of stones, wood and bones which they themselves carved.

With the passing of centuries, these first human beings became more and more intelligent and they began to domesticate animals such as dogs, goats, sheep and pigs; they also began to cultivate plants which was then eaten. This is the arrival of agriculture and farming, when everything changed....But we will talk about this in the future, until then let´s enjoy the Stone Age!!





  PALEOLITHIC