It’s important to consider some questions when looking at the cave art at Lascaux. Some questions include: What were the cave artists trying to say? Why do you think that there were so many animals and not as many people in the paintings? What can the paintings tell us about other aspects of the life of cave dwellers or Paleolithic people? How did they make these pictures if there were no stores to buy paint and brushes or tools for carving? What colors are prominent in the paintings, and what natural sources might provide these pigments if they didn’t have crayons or markers?…
In Chapter 5, the work of art that I found most compelling was the cave painting in Lascaux, Dordogne, France, called Hall of Bulls (Page 112). This cave painting was created somewhere between c. 15,000-10,000 BCE. and may have been part of an ancient ritual. I find the detail on this cave painting to be utterly astonishing. I can’t even draw a proper stick figure in Paint and yet these cavemen were painting detailed pictures of running animals. It is amazing to see such a historical piece of art still living to this day on the same wall that the people painted it on. I particularly like the way that the wall’s rough exterior gives life to animals, it is as if they are running in smoke or dust. This is truly an amazing piece of art and hopefully,…
The painting is inspired by the view outside of van Gogh’s asylum room in Saint-Rémy-De-Province, with an addition of an ‘ideal village’ taking up space in the downward periphery of the artwork. There are small houses and buildings drawn at the bottom of the painting, a half crescent moon at the top right corner and the depiction of a church with a broad steeple.…
This whole paper started with an amazing trip to the Denver Art Museum. The Teotihuacan section immediately caught my attention. This is where I discovered the “Mural of Xochipilla”. Had I known in the beginning how mysterious this piece of art was I would have moved on to another topic for this research paper. Many hours were spent trying to find information on the “Mural of Xochipilla” which yielded no information at all. Not even the museum could reveal anything about the mural except that they had purchased the mural in 1967. While doing the research I was inspired by Teotihuacan’s mysterious culture, which kept me looking for more information. Al though there was no information on the “Mural of Xochipilla”, there seemed to be overwhelming information on the Culture of Teotihuacan.…
Over the years, conversations of the topics of Plato’s writings arise. The teachings from Socrates of the “Parable of the Sun, Myth of the Cave and Divided Line” have become very popular to the world. So popular that it has an impact on the movie industry, the stories are hidden in some movies. More movies depict the stories” The Divided Line and The Myth of the Cave “ rather than “The Parable of the Sun.” The movie, eXistenZ, is an example of “The Myth of the Cave and The Divided Line”, since the stories are very similar. The movie has many similarities to “The Myth of the Cave”, but can correlate better to “The Divided Line” for more structure.…
Our ancestors began to express their creativity and individuality with the first forms of art. The two forms art were mural and portable art. “Mural art is paintings and engravings on the walls of caves” (Price 131). Mural art has been found mostly in France and Spain. The paint used for murals is a combination of minerals and cave water. The main colors are black, yellow, red and sometimes white. The mixture is long lasting as hundreds of murals exist today. Most of the murals that have survived are deep within the caves as oppose to the murals that may have been painted in the entrance of caves. There are several caves that have invaluable collections of mural art. One of them is the cave of Lascaux in France. The murals are mostly of animals, occasionally pregnant. There are few paintings of humans. “Portable art is cravings, figurines and other shaped or decorated pieces that can be moved from place to place (Price 131). Portable art has been found in Europe and most of the Old World. The amount of portable art many be a result of groups of people traveling during different seasons to more accommodating areas during the year. A remarkable example of portable art is from the site Dolni Vestonice. Two representations of the same woman have been found. One is a small ivory plaque and the other is a small carved ivory head of a woman with an asymmetrical face. At this site, “a skeleton of a woman with congenital nerve damage buried under two…
This magnificent painting dates back to Lascaux, France 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. It was found on cave walls and it is said to represent one of the earliest examples of artistic expression. We can see that this piece was created during the Paleolithic period because; they are images walls using paint on limestone. We can see that the primitive people used natural rock contours, which suggested the animal’s volumes and portrayed real representations of a major role in their lives, which were the animals. We can see horses, bulls, deer, cows and more animals on the walls of these caves. Furthermore, the images of the animals are overlapping earlier illustrations; this would suggest that what made the people at the time want to paint the animals was the simple act of portraying them, instead of focusing on the effect that their act would achieve. On the religious part of this piece, we know that several of the paintings were situated far from the entrance of the caves. This type of placement followed by the gigantic size and great importance of them would tell us that the secluded rooms were used for ceremonial and sacred gathering places. I would have to agree with this interpretation due to the fact that it is believed that main use of the caves was for worship and initiation rituals.…
In the painting of the Lofty Mount Lu and Forest Chamber at Ju’ou there are many similarities that they share. The attention to detail in both paintings are alike, they both show attention to the trees, water and the rocky terrain. Both paintings show the water flowing from the middle portion of the painting and flowing out of picture to the bottom left. In each painting they use the same form of brush strokes and a few colors, both artiest color in the trees and grass.…
Cave drawings have been found dating back to 30,000BC. This was man's first written attempt at the art of storytelling with pictures. Many of the paintings are located in the ceilings and walls deep within the caves meaning they could only be viewed with firelight. Most of these caves have been found in France and Spain.…
Throughout the work there is a wide variety of naturalistic colors such as blue, purple, light brown, and green that is very rich in color and fresh. The lightness of the colors give the work a soft feeling. The warmth of the earthly tones helps the work look realistic. The cool blue sky is far away and gives the picture great depth. The canyon walls display fiery red and gold hues with a tint of brown. The one dimensional lines in the work vary in width, length, and direction that lead the eye around the composition. The horizontal lines used are thin and shape the tops and the edges of the canyons. The vertical line that separates the cloudless and vibrant sky from the colorful cliffs sculpted by water and wind is faint. In between the cliffs there is a river that stretches miles long and runs through the walls of the canyon as it flows from the walls of the canyons it gets narrower and narrower. The water is blue, darker in the shadows and more pale in the light, but still blue. The texture in the work is hard to detect, but the brushstrokes are simple and light that enhances the works concept.…
The artist of this must have saw the beauty of this in reality and then painted it for others to see.…
Image: “chauvet cave” document,”” IN the Realm of forgotten dreams”” point is that these paintings are in the optical approach , but I comes far ealier than the other twisted perspective cave paintings.…
The Lascaux cave paintings cover the wall of several caverns known by names like the Great Hall of the Bulls and the Painted Gallery. The images are of bison, horses, deer, and big cats, all animals from Paleolithic times.…
The cave art of the Cro Magnons featured multi-colored paintings of animals such as bison, cattle as well as mammoths. Also included are geometric figures as well as female paintings. The animals themselves appeared to be pierced with spears in a ritualistic way. To me the most plausible reason for these paintings is that the hunters believed this would bring them luck during their hunt which is seen in many cultures so It seems plausible that this would be the purpose for the paintings.…
Also the use of their complementary colors emphasizes this quality. This also echos the subject of the painting: Parisians at leisure. It’s typical of this period. Under the influence of the Industrial Revolution and the Progress, artists start to study optics and color theory to improve their paintings.…