ARTS IN

EARLY
CIVILIZATION
Presentation of Group 3
 Stone Age

• is a term used to described a period of history

when stones were used to make tools for
survival.

Three Periods of the Stone Age Culture

• Paleolithic - Old Stone Age

• Mesolithic - Middle Stone Age
• Neolithic - New Stone Age
Prehistoric ART
Paleolithic Art

Is a product of climate change. As the

climate got colder, part of the early
humans’ instinct is to look for shelters
that would provide them with warmth.
Caves became protective havens for the
early humans and these caves paved the
way for the birth of their first attempts
to create art.
 Mesolithic Art

The term "Mesolithic art" refers to all arts

and crafts created between the end of the
Paleolithic Ice Age (10,000 BCE) and the
beginning of farming, with its cultivation
and animal husbandry. Humans during this
age developed engravings, and ceramics
to reflect their daily lives. The Mesolithic is
the first era of the Holocene epoch, which
succeeded the Pleistocene, and it ushered
in a new approach to Stone Age art.
 Neolithic Art

has developed especially when life for the early

humans has become more stable. They have
learned to cultivate the land and domesticate
animals. By 4000 BCE there were several
monumental and architectural erected. One of
them is the Stonehenge. Some sees it as
complex calendar while other see it as a temple.
The purpose of this fascinating edifice remains
a mystery up to this day and age.
 Egyptian ART
• Due to the indispensability and utility, Egyptians came to the notion that
art was something that can be ascribed and associated with religion.

Three Periods in Egyptian Civilization

• Old Kingdom
• Middle Kingdom
• New Kingdom
 Old Kingdom ( Age of the Pyramids )

The Old Kingdom (2686 BC–2182 BC) was a

period of political stability and economic
prosperity, during which great tombs were built for
Egyptian Kings in the form of pyramids. It was
characterized by revolutionary advancements in
royal funerary architecture. Both Egyptian society
and the economy were greatly impacted by the
organization of major state-sponsored building
projects, which focused on building tombs for their
kings. These tombs were built in the form of great
pyramids, and for this reason, the Old Kingdom is
frequently referred to as the “Age of the The Pyramids of Giza: This view shows all
Pyramids.” three pyramid structures: the Great
Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the
Pyramid of Menkaure.
 Middle Kingdom ( Political Hierarchy )

The key features of Middle Kingdom shift in an

emergence of powerful groups of landlords that
threatened the authority and rule of the pharaoh. In
order for art to be reemerge and flourish, Egypt
needed to have a more stable situation. This
happened during the rule of King Mentuhotep,
during his rule Egypt eventually got back on the
track. Art during Middle Kingdom has some
experimentations in terms of style, some styles that
emerged during this period are portrait sculptures
and fresco paintings that were freely drawn.

Mentuhotep II receiving offerings:

Mentuhotep II, seated, holds the crook as a
symbol of power.
 New Kingdom ( The Golden Age )

The New Kingdom is known as the golden age of

ancient Egyptian history. Monuments and
sculptures were still linked with death and
reverence for the deceased. During with the
previous kingdoms, tombs were just used for
worshiping the dead but with the New Kingdom,
they started having mortuary temples. These
temples which were carved out of living rocks
served not only a sanctuary for the dead but also a
place of worships for the living. During this
period, Egypt has established itself as a more
advanced and powerful civilization.
Colonnaded design of Hatshepsut
temple
 Amarna Revolution

When Amenhotep became the king of Egypt with her

Queen Nefertiti in the 18th dynasty he revolutionize the arts
and religion. He moved the capital to Tel El- Amarna thus
the name Amarna. He later on change his name to
Akhenaton, which came from Aton who is the sun of God.
During this period the only God to be revered was Aton.
Egypt became monotheistic and Akhenaton ordered all to
tear down all monuments of other Gods. He then fervently
ordered the creation and erection of new monuments in
reverence to Aton.

Queen Nefertiti
 Tutankhamen

The greatest discoveries from the Egyptian

Civilization was the tomb of Tutankhamen.
He became king at a very young age and
died at the age of eighteen. Howard Carter
discovered his tomb in 1922. they were
astonished to find gold artworks and that the
coffin was made out of solid gold. The body
of the young king was covered in linen and
a gold mask covered his face.

Tutankhamen
QUESTIONS:

1. What are the three periods during the stone age culture?
2. What period is the product of climate change?
3. What period is Human during this age developed engravings and
ceramic to reflect their daily lives?
4. As people began to adopt a more settled existence based on
agriculture, the rearing of domesticated animals?
5. what are the Three periods in Egyptian civilization?
6. What are the 4 aspect of Egyptian art?
7. What is the greatest discoveries from the Egyptian civilization?
Thank You!!
 GROUP 03
GROUP MEMBER:

SUGUINO,
DIANNE MUSAHARI, MUDZNA
THERESE

DUMAGUIT,JOCELY
N

AKSON, RAUF
IGNACIO, HADJULA,ALJIMA
JOCELYN R