1: Cultural classification of prehistoric Europe 2: Art classification of prehistoric Europe 3: representative works of different periods and cultures

Paleolithic art

Before the late Paleolithic period in Europe, the production and improvement of practical tools had shown many aesthetic factors, which prepared modeling skills for creating artistic works. In the late Paleolithic period, Europe was divided into four cultural periods: Orgna culture, Perigord culture, Sorut culture and Magdalene culture. Orgna culture is named after the French Gallon Cave in Orgna. Perigord culture is named after French Perigord, and Lascaux Cave is the most important representative of this stage. Solute culture is named after Sotheby's in France? -? Sorut, Loire Province; The Magdalene culture is named after the Magdalene Cave in Dordogne. They constitute the late Paleolithic art, and their typical example is the altamira Cave? . ?

The subject matter of Paleolithic art is mainly animals, and the proportion of characters is quite large. There are only some images of plants, fingerprints and geometric patterns. The role of art is generally regarded as a hunting witchcraft, which uses pictures or sculptures to control hunting objects or multiply animal resources. ?

Art in the Middle Stone Age

Born in BC? 1 ten thousand years later. The art of the Middle Stone Age can be divided into? 3? A region. The first area is the flourishing area of Paleolithic cave art in southern France and northern Spain, which is called Accili culture, leaving few works. The second area is northern Europe, mainly rock art. That is, works painted or carved on open-air cliffs and boulders and active art (works carved on movable stones or other materials). The third area is the Levant in eastern Spain. At this time, the art, also known as Levant art, is mainly murals left in open-air rocks and caves. Their motifs and forms of expression are not the same as before, which not only embodies complex psychological connotation, but also pays more attention to composition processing and has obvious pursuit in the aesthetic aspect of the picture. ?

Neolithic art

In the northern part of the Alps, there is a building built with huge stones, and its murals are mostly decorated with geometric figures. This art is called megalithic culture. European megalithic culture was formed in the Neolithic Age. It is made entirely of stone, not mortar. This kind of stone architecture is generally divided into stone circles, stone pillars, megalithic tombs and temples. 4? This type. Its mural style, like the rock paintings of the Neolithic Age, completely broke away from the realistic tradition of the Paleolithic Age and formed a leading trend of gradual stylization, conciseness and symbolization.