PREHISTORIC ART
Characteristics:
a)The earliest forms of prehistoric art are extremely primitive. The lifestyles depend on hunting and foraging for food or later on pastoral agriculture.It is posible that eearlier people might have decorated theire bodies and clothes or marked trees of featured in the landscape.but,if they did evidence of that art has not survived.
European cave and rockc art:
The cave and rock art of the later Old
Stone Age or Upper Paleolithic is
especially famous and has certain particular characteristics.In these oldersites, large pictures of
animals are only rarely associated with human figures, whereas in more
numerous.
Animal association vary but compositions including particular pairs of animals ,such as bison and horses in europe or elephants and girafes in Africa,are known.On both continents mythical beasts
including half animal, half human creatures are occasionally depicted.
Portraits of people are rare and landscapes, plants, fruit, and flowers
are unknown.
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