Neolithic Vs Paleolithic Art

The Paleolithic Era Vs The Neolithic Era

Art expresses an artist’s imagination or visual that is meant to tell, show, or describe a feeling, scene, or even an animal. The first man-made art evolved during the Stone Age, but it advanced drastically as the periods moved from the Paleolithic era to the Neolithic era. The methods for making art became more varied as inventions of apparatuses were established and people learned to make a variety of art, such as pottery. While it is assumed that both Paleolithic and Neolithic people made art for ritualized purposes, this reason was more obvious during Neolithic times. Both the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages were marvelous time periods, but between these two eras, there were marked differences and

Nevertheless, in their illustrations, their hunting pictures of animals seem to have more realism, and researchers know a little more about these particular paintings. They believe that they were part of a ceremonial function, showing respect to a divine being. The Neolithic paintings were depicted in a different fashion from those of the Paleolithic period. To illustrate, Neolithic paintings frequently illustrated the human form. The human figure was represented in a more revealing position, involving both an anterior and a posterior, rather than just a frontal view. In fact, the people and animals are presented in crowds rather than just individuals. Drawings of this era often presented accounts of these people’s daily lives, rather than just being sketches. Another important fact to note about the artwork of this Neolithic era is that most of them had facial features and more details than the Paleolithic art. “Neolithic art pieces were predominantly made of pottery, and the Neolithic society fashioned wooden figurines of animals and people adjacent to pottery, designed with wavy lines, spirals, and other geometric forms on its coarse or refined exteriors as well as executed with a considerable degree of realism” (Funk and Wagnalls 1). The human body form became more important in Neolithic art, which involved painted scenes with groups of people dancing, farming, and hunting. Forms in these pictures were very detailed. In addition, there were massive changes in the way people lived, which also changed the types of art the early man made. Neolithic sculpture became larger because people did not have to transport it from place to place any longer, whereas pottery appeared more prevalent and was used to stock nourishment gathered from