jueves, 6 de junio de 2013
sábado, 4 de mayo de 2013
Lascaux and Altamira
Hi :), i am going to talk about Lascaux and Altamira caves, is interesting to talk about this, because this has occurred many hundreds of years before and discover how they express themselves now is fantastic and if we are attentive, we can learn many different and new things that we can never imagine.
Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne. They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. With the advent of the Upper Paleolithic period from 40,000 BCE, coinciding with the replacement of Neanderthal Man with "modern" versions of Homo sapiens, prehistoric art takes a massive leap forward, as exemplified by the cave painting of western Europe.
The Upper Paleolithic cave complex at Altamira in northern Spain, not far from the village of Antillana del Mar in Cantabria, is famous for its vivid rock art, featuring drawings and multi-coloured cave painting of wild animals and human hands, leading to its nickname as the "Sistine Chapel of Stone Age art".
Now, i am going to paste some images of Lascaux:
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Now, i'm going to paste some pictures of Altamira caves:
martes, 23 de abril de 2013
Prehistoric art
Hi,
Today i am going to talk about the Prehistoric art, i know that the time fllows and more in the high school but on the last unit we only had to study maps because it was Geography, but now we have just started a new unit and the work we have to do is writting so here we are. It's not going to be easy but slowlly i'm sure that is is going to be better and easier :)
Prehistoric art.
- Petroglyphs- Cupules, rock carvings and engravings
- Pictographs- Pictorial imagery, ideomorphs, ideograms pr symbols
- Cave painting and drawings.
- Prehistoric sculpture- small totemic statuettes known as Venus Figuries, various forms of zoomorphic and therianthropic ivory caving and relief sculptures.
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viernes, 1 de febrero de 2013
The volga river
The Volga River
- The Volga River is the longest river of Europe. It flows throughcentral Russia and it´s the national river of it`´. Eleven of the twenty largest cities of Russia, including the capital, Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage basin. Some of the largest reservoirs in the world can be found along the Volga. The river has a symbolic meaning in Russian culture and is often referred to as Volga-Matushka (Mother Volga) in Russian literature and folklore. It belongs to the closed basin of the Caspian Sea. Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 meters above the sea level northwest of Moscow and about 320 kilimeters south-east Saint Petersburg, the Volga heads east past Lake Sterzh, Tver, Dubna, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. From there it turns south, flows past Ulyanovsk, Tolyatti, Samara, Saratov and Volgograd, and discharges into the Caspian Sea below Astrakhan at 28 meters below sea level. At its most strategic point, it bends towards the Don.
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