catch me getting emotional at 1 am about early humans seeing a human looking pebble and keeping it

@rubenskiii

Жыл бұрын

Yeah these stories of connection with people lost to the mist of time always get me in the feelings.

@erintolva1620

Жыл бұрын

Tfo😅tttpyytyyytyyyyÿyy

@Creekstain

6 ай бұрын

I started looking at art on rocks and I found myself ( haha not a stone that looks like me but it was like therapy ) My picture to the left is an elephant 🐘. I now find and film these stones and teach others how to read them.

Please, never take those videos off. I am not a "student", but i really enjoy learning, and this course has immense value to me. Its a really big favor to humanity what u did, sharing knowledge and informatiom for free. I live in a poor country, cant have access physically nor pay for online knowledge, so i am really grateful for people like u.

I'm not part of the class or university or anything, but I'm enjoying this lecture series so far

@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@rubenskiii

Жыл бұрын

Yeah i feel u, i'm not even from the same continent as this class.

@fritiofajvide404

Жыл бұрын

@@rubenskiiiI’m actually not even from the same planet as this class. Still enjoying it a lot!

@Gr1zo

Жыл бұрын

@@fritiofajvide404😂😂

@residentenigma7141

Жыл бұрын

​@@fritiofajvide404 We may be related.

I once heard a theory that the proportions of venus figures could come from the artist looking down at herself. Breasts and belly would be emphasized from that angle, especially if she was or had been recently pregnant. Hands and feet wouldn’t be, and the head wouldn’t have been in view at all. I don’t know how much I buy that one, but it is an interesting thought to chew on.

@alyssarouso

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I've never heard this one before! My art history professor suggested that the feminine reproductive system (primary and secondary characteristics, so breasts, a full womb, and the vulva) was emphasized because it represented fertility and vitality to life. Also veni were often built heavy because fatness was a sign of being well-fed and well-insulated, which were important factors to survival. I really like the idea that the Venus figures were self-Portraits, though. That may suggest why many are so abstract when it comes to their facial features, since the artists had no reference points.

@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343

4 жыл бұрын

This was a theory I never gave much credence to, then a student did a project with a digital 3D image from that vantage point. It's really fascinating. I the POV matters and gives credence to the idea that the creators are female artists.

Bless you for putting this up for free on KZread. That's just an objectively good thing

Your students are so lucky to have you to be their teacher, and I said this as someone who has done a minor in art. Thanks so much for sharing these videos with us :)

This is brilliant, thank you so much for making education so interesting and freely available

@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You have made a whole period of art history I never learnt about non cared for come to life in the best way!!!

It was the “Bleach wipes and 5 months of Toilet paper” when you coughed for me. Hello from Australia!

These are the most interesting art history lectures I've ever encountered. Thank you Travis Lee Clark - more please.

Dang, I didn't know this class came with a whole socio-psychological aspect, love it

I enjoyed every sec of this. Better than my college professors!

Thank god for professers that publish their lectures

I'm a Multimedia student from India. I always wanted to have a clear view on how ART EVOLVED. Thank you so much Mr. Travis for such a contribution! Your teaching style is GREAT!

Thank you so much for making these Art History lessons public. I really appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge. You're a talented lecturer and enjoyable to listen to!

Thank you for having this on KZread for free you are a Saint ❤ this is art 😊

Although I will not remember all details after listening only once, I absolutely loved learning about our ancestors art, and what it tried to convey. You’re a magician, a storyteller, a shaman and a passionate time traveler. Thank you for sharing and opening our eyes to see, perceive and understand. Thank you for your precious time and generosity.

I accidentally came across this channel and immediately watched the entire video, despite having to get up for work in a couple of hours. This is amazing, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have these lectures available for free on youtube. The only downside is that now I will live in a constant fear that they will be taken offline before I’ve watched all of them. Will have to cancel Netflix and binge watch this instead.

Travis, you are an amazing teacher and creator. Thank you for this

Thank you SO much! I'm taking online classes (but not at your university) and really miss lectures. Your lectures helped me get a 91% on our first exam from Paleolithic to the Romans. I've watched all your lectures so far and I couldn't learn this much info without them! I'm totally geeking out on your videos! It's a wealth of knowledge! THANK YOU! (wish I could donate more, but I'm a studenr!)

HAHAHAHA THE MICKY MOUSE BIT. i love it. Thanks for uploading these lectures to youtube!! I've always been interested in learning about art history but never really knew where to start! :)

Thank you for a wonderful lecture! Sharing it on youtube is so generous of you! This is the best material I have seen about prehistoric art :) The only thing I would like to add is that Mezhyrich is the territory of Ukraine, not Russia.

I adore your lectures, you go further indepth than my professors do. I always use your lectures to supplement my learning. Thank you for uploading these videos.

My favourite parts of this lecture was the Venus discussion ...... and absolutely not your personal vendetta against Mickey Mouse that made me laugh a little too much

Wow, I've searched for art history materials on KZread so many times and only now I found your channel. Many were either unbelievably boring or barely scratching the subject, during your lecture I felt I'm actually learning about the topic AND enjoying the process.

Art History was my favorite class in Community College, which helped get my art credit. Glad I can go through it again with these videos.

I really enjoyed every second of this and needed to pause a lot to get into what you really want to deliver.. Every words that you put in this video makes me think what I really want to be in this art major. Bless you for bringing these videos free on KZread. Thank you.

Great lecture! I haven’t taken an art history class in 20 years (it was my minor in uni), and this was a fabulous refresher with some interesting new tidbits. Ancient art is my fav… after I finished this one I’m heading to see if you have a lectured dedicated to Sumerian art!😁

I took Art History through the 15th century a year ago and I felt like some things just didn’t go in depth enough cause we had so much to learn, I’m really loving learning more about all this and learning more about the Venus figures.

I fell asleep and woke up to this playing. What luck! This was great. I’m looking forward to watching many more of these :)

Art is a visual language and it seems that it could have began by watching shadows. The artist could outline the shadow on the ground or on a wall. The creation of new shapes could come about due to people being a bit schizophrenic as the artist make shapes from other known similar elements of drawing. The umbrella could easily turn into a parachute as it has a curved shape and it only needs downward lines converging to form a parachute. It is very creative to form new forms from what is already in existence.

FYI if you are au fait with French slang "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" has a third interpretation, although Magritte probably didn't intend that kind of dirty double entendre

Dr Clark, do you think it is possible that the multiple rhinos can be representing them in motion?

@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343

4 жыл бұрын

This is an excellent question. Right now, we can't say for certain but the evidence is that most of these repeated images are made at different times, but not all. I have a friend who does Fremont Indian Pictographs and they often have multiple legs, like six or eight. I think those are meant to convey movement for sure. In the case of these paleolithic paintings it's certainly possible. The ones that are made over a long period of time are probably a result of the redrawing/reviving the original image. But not all are done over a long period of time. So it's definitely possible.

You can literally take free semester long college classes on KZread with an actual PhD lecturer. It’s pretty awesome. I was an art history minor who seemed to enjoy it more than my actual major. I particularly enjoyed Asian and Buddhist art history. I’m here to brush up on the knowledge because I always thought that art history was awesome. Thank you for dedicating your time to doing this!

i am enjoying this series of lectures, my art school skipped over prehistoric art for the most part. thank you!

This is brilliant. You have so much soul. I am excited to discover more of your channel.

Wow, fantastic lecture! I love how deeply this penetrates into prehistory. Many concepts clarified. Thank you, Professor Clark! I look forward to reviewing your other videos.

Thank you so much for this. I have always been enthralled with ancient Paleolithic art and I have been waiting my entire life for this lecture

In Australia, the tradition still continue for many groups (the ones who survived the colonisation invasion). The repainting is to keep alive the spirits of ancestors, and the stories of creation and to add new stories. The stories are creation, interwoven with looking after the environment, and responsibility for a totem animal, and to keep alive cultural knowledge about social structures etc.

Loved the lecture and the graphics. Keep this on!

I'm Logistics student from Poland trying to get to art schools, i didn't had good quality history lessons at highschool, i never knew where to learn all of that and this is litteraly life saver. Your lecures are so interesting to listen, i Hope i'll catch up on things i didn't learned

learning that furry art isn't new is mildly terrifying

@NightTimeDay

2 жыл бұрын

The lion man as furry art has been my favourite "fact" to tell people for years 😂 it's really funny to hear people's reactions, as long as you don't mind them suspecting you of being a furry yourself, that is.

This is some of the best information and delivered in such a way I can understand, visualize and follow in anticipation without pause. Ty

Holy shiet, you are capable to make everything interesting! Thank you

Brilliant lecture. Greeting from Belarus.

hi! just wanna say i put your video in the background while doing my hw, your voice so soothing!! thanks for the lectures too!

This lecture is amazing! Thank you so much!!!!

Mickey Mouse is the current depiction of an Eldritch Horror. Change my mind.

@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343

4 жыл бұрын

No disagreement here. lol.

Thanks so much for these videos!!! I love your channel

Excellent work!

Thank you for your lectures, it is very useful, detailed and enriching. I wanted to point out thought, that you have slides at the end of your lecture, that say that Mammoth Hut were located in the Mezhirich, Russia. But Mezhirich is not in Russia, it's is a part of territory of modern Ukraine. Even back in 1965 when Mammoth Huts were discovered, the state was called Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as a part of USSR, but it was not Russia, nor Russian Empire at the time. And I remember our school trips to the area. I am aware that you cannot redact this video here. But maybe you could keep it in mind for your future lectures, because it means a lot to us. Thank you.

This is soooo helpful for my class. Thank you very much!

Good job, well done. Good bless you

These lessons are amazing. Thank you so much

Fascinating lecture!

Brilliant, thank you very much 👏👏

Lovely lecture and slides! I would be interested in watching Travis along side the slides as he gives the lecture.

hey professor, I'm in your class Arth 2710 this semester, and this lecture reminds me of the movie "Brother Bear" and how they had totems or talismans that would particularly be associated with their soul and an animal, very interesting! I wonder if the movie is based on western history?

I'm watching this from the Netherlands, not gonna get any off this on a test but i just love the subject.

Looking to buy some art history textbooks. Which do you recommend?

Important to point out that Mezhirich or Mezhyrich (1:38:10) is a village in Ukraine, precisely, in central Ukraine near Cherkasy Oblast.

love this

I have a question. Do we know if these groups of people from 40,000-20,000 years ago were isolated or if they interacted with each other? Did each group of people come up with the idea for cave art on their own? Or did one group start it and the rest followed their lead? If it's the former, it's really fascinating to imagine different, isolated groups coming up with such similar ideas to one another.

Thanks for the great lecture! I really liked the sequence of the presented material. There is one big remark, I ask you to listen: You mark the mammoth huts from Mezhirich as if they are in "Russia". Mezhyrich (this is the correct spelling of the name; "Mezhirich" is a wrong English transliteration) is literally the center of Ukraine. Please correct this unfortunate mistake, because I have no idea where this false attribution could have come from.

I'm not even in this class. I don't even go to this school. I don't even live in Utah.

this is brilliant

I'm in AP art history, it's lunch, 2 hours before the test. Art history condensed into 2 hours suddenly doesn't sound bad at all.

Really amazing lecture, thank you. May I draw your attention to the Man of the Petralona Cave in Chalkidiki Greece - maybe worth adding in your lectures. Again many thanks for a very comprehensive and informative lecture.

I like the idea that the Venus of Willendorf could possibly have been a self portrait :D

brilliant!!!!!!!

Thanks for all these amazing videos. Just one silly note: the discovery of the Altamira's paintings didnt happened as you told.

These videos are amazing thank you! i have a question i dont know if you would even answer, but is there any theories of the cave painting rather than being for religion/rituals, it was rather a place where they taught the others how to hunt or how to draw the animals? *sorry for the english

22:33 is this really a finch using a stick? If so, let it fly out of my screen and let it use its little stick to catch bugs elsewhere.

How can this video be free

Excellent lecture, love your perspective. The prehistoric flutes that have been found around the world hint at a rich artistic culture, but the full context has been lost to time, unfortunately

Great lecture. I do think however that the Venus sculptures could be naturalistic. Is it not possible that powerful female figures could have been given food by the community as a votive offering or as a form of tax? Weight gain would therefore become a symbol of wealth power and sexuality as is seen in some African communities? Given a high calorie diet a physique such as is shown may have been possible even during the Mesolithic..

Thank you

the latest theory is that the animal cave paintings were a used as a calendar, showing the seasons when different animals were breeding etc.and when and how to kill the animals as a teaching tool

Large amounts or 'rock art' is found all over north American depicting mammoth and mastodons, other animals and human faces. Its incredibly obvious that these artifacts were created by man, however, we do not know who the culture who created these and when. The tools found associated with these type of artifacts look much like Achulean tools. There is no archaeologist I am aware of in north American that recognizes them, but our European colleagues do.

I like the theory that the Lascaux Cave bull is a constellation

Perhaps Cro Magnons didn’t have the need to draw-the animals because they were a theme of every day life until they had to remember them most of the time when the ice shields kept them for a longer time inside the caves. They had much time to perform their interpretations, though for what I’ve seen, the caves were inhabited or visited time and again for a long period, and the drawings got better and better one on top of the other. So much so that in some caves, you see them move.

I’m not even In college yet I’m subscribed and listening-

Dr. Clark, I've heard there's a theory of the Venus figurines possibly having been carved by women looking down at their own bodies, which could explain the distorted shapes of the figurines. What's your opinion on this suggestion?

@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343

3 жыл бұрын

This was something I had heard of but I didn't give it much thought UNTIL a student made a computer model of the venus figurine so you could see it from that perspective. Great project and it really demonstrated the principle. Sometimes you really have to see it to understand.

@edelgyn2699

2 жыл бұрын

That theory would be quite stupid. Were the women not able to see the shape of other women's bodies and realise the 'distortion'? The figurines were stylised and are not dissimilar to later figurines in other cultures.

@thecactusinthevalley4657

2 жыл бұрын

​@@edelgyn2699 okay, first off "would be" is a bad choice of words, the theory exists in present tense. secondly, you're really going to sit there and call ancient women blind or stupid for the way they chose to create these? it's likely that you were supposed to make it modeled from yourself and not from observing another person. as someone with a female body, the distortion is something that i definitely see when i look down at myself. and from the name ed, i'm going to assume you have a male body and thus have never seen a female body from that specific perspective

@thecactusinthevalley4657

2 жыл бұрын

​@@edelgyn2699 a follow up reply, it also very much sounds like you're assuming everyone was somewhat thin or athletically built and there's no way to prove that. but i can assure you that the mainstream culture's obsession with thinness is rooted in misogyny and racism and it has not always existed as such. these creators were concerned with survival and probably not how much they weighed so it's also probable that by today's standards they were overweight

Mezhirich is located in Ukraine, not Russia.

thankyou

1:08:01 I think they invented cinematography. (I mean I think they redraw it just to show motion)

9:37 it's loss again isn't it?

"women don't look like this", I laughed in that's-a-false-claim. Love these lectures!

@whitneychinonyeernest1535

2 жыл бұрын

"anxiety, depression, it could also be positive: hope...hope for an afterlife" Don't kill me lmao

There is a mistake in this lecture. Mezhirich (Mammoth Hut) is a village in Ukraine.

I'd like to pose a question that I came up with in the shower: If art is an "object" that satisfies me or the artist themselves on a conceptual or abstract level, does this means that, If i paint the walls on my room, would that be art or, at the very least, a practice of art ? Because by painting my walls, i'm tackling a problem of aesthetics: the original color doesn't satisfie me, thefore I change it.

Worth mentioning Coliboaia cave: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coliboaia_Cave

There is a really interesting article I recommend reading if you’re interested to know more about what the Venus Figurines may have been for: McCoid, C., McDermott, L., "Toward Decolonizing Gender: Female Vision in the Upper Paleolithic," American Anthropologist 98(2) (1996): 319-326 To summarize, they were liking made by women for other women to reference during pregnancy. It shows some really strong evidence in my opinion, but let me know what you all think. :)

39:05 Sometimes I wonder... 1:08:41 I personally believe it's to denote movement of a singe animal, like an after image. The 1st attempt at animation perhaps?? 1:17:44 This is probably something like a Neolithic Waifu (Aydin Paladin probably has a good vid on that phenomenon if you don't know what it is).

@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343

3 жыл бұрын

The idea that this is supposed to represent animation is an idea that is gaining credence. There was a recent study on it somewhere. I will have to update the vid. On waifus...well...lol.

@afarwiththedawning4495

3 жыл бұрын

​@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 Really? Thats cool! I guess my take is there is a link between some of this impulse to create physical representations of ideal females then and now. I'm a sculpture artist and there is a massive market of pornographic/pin up statues/figures coming out of Japan, a place where men are rejecting modern females and dropping out of modern society, in part do to it's unnatural obligations. They are reverting back to things that comfort and them and the genre is defined by the same exaggerated features and minimal face detail, the later being more of an accident of how Anime developed. Maybe these 2 groups of Men have similar responses to a similar style of social/environmental pressure? They have access to VR and the internet and a large population of healthy females but they still collect these small scale statues of what is still, basically the cro-magnon ideal. Idk, just seemed interesting, lol

1:21:24

You're telling me all artists are cheaters??? I KNEW IT!

"cmon, get off it its a pipe" 😹😹😹 really doe

i knew it was going to be elephant so my record of not thinking of it is -5 seconds😅

The venus figures are pregnant figures , it's the same as where a pregnant women gain their whole weight and it's a progesterone effect of the pregnancy , and increase in fluid retention is responsible for a significant amount of weight gain women experience during pregnancy , these figures looks like they are swollen, I think .

I found a loophole in not thinking of an elephant. I thought of a mammoth, which is not an elephant

i was not expecting a furry shoutout in this video