Please answer each of the following questions in complete sentences.
Please describe Stone Age art. What is it and where was it found?
What were the seven main colors used by the ancient Egyptians? Please also list the three steps the Egyptians used when painting.
What is hierarchy proportion? How did the ancient Egyptians use hierarchy proportion?
Think about what we have learned about Chinese paintings. What did the earliest forms of Chinese paintings have more of (instead of pictures)? Please list three common themes that could be found on pottery pieces.
What was landscape art? Describe how it was used and created in the northern and southern regions of China.
Critical Thinking Questions
Please answer each of the following questions in complete sentences.
Animal paintings were a common form of art and people would paint animals that were important food sources or serious predators. If you were to create animal paintings today based on animals that are an important food source or predator to you today, would they be similar to those painted in the Stone Age or different? Why? Describe what they might look like.
Just as the world of art has grown and changed over the years, there’s a good chance that your personal creation of art has grown and changed over the years as well! Please describe what your art looked like and how you created it when you were in elementary school compared to what your art looks like and how you create art today.
The unit taught us that Mayan murals give a unique (special) insight into the beliefs and lifestyles of this ancient culture. Take a look at the painting below. What do you think can be understood about Mayan beliefs or their lifestyle from this mural? Explain.
Hierarchy proportion was used by ancient Egyptians to show the importance of certain figures in paintings based on their size. Examine the example of hierarchy painting below and describe which figures you think are more or less important based on their proportions. Who do you think these figures represent?
Think back to the elements and principles of design that you learned in a previous unit. Keeping that in mind, look at the following example of Chinese landscape art below and describe the various elements and principles of design that you notice. Some possibilities include color, value, line, shape, texture, perspective, movement, or scale.