Art Dating Back To Cave Art Summary

Thinking of life back almost 40,000 years ago can be a challenge to wrap the mind around. To learn about the human species’ past, we must decipher the clues left behind of how humans used to live.

There were many social and economic changes that took place in human development from the Paleolithic through Neolithic periods. First, humans invented agriculture to use in their day to day lives. Next, roles of men and women began to shift. Finally, another change between these two periods had to do with living quarters. Art was affected in all of these changes made during the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic eras.

Do you know anything about cave paintings? Well I am here to inform you about them. For example, the majestic paintings of bison in Cosquer Cave. In Altamira more beautiful animals of the Ice Age. In Lascaux too were majestic animals like horse, deer, bison, etc. These facts are truly amazing. These caves are jewels of mother nature. Also, about Carbon 14 Dating and how it works with its formulas.

The part of the reading that had me most engaged and interested was the section on the cave paintings done by the early humans. The way that they painted these images were just so intricate and with so much detail, it had me in awe. The fact that some of these animals seemed to be drawn in motion gives me the inclination that it was something more meaningful than drawing for the sake of making art, a lot of time and effort must have been spent on this for it not to have some sort of human meaning. In the reading, it says that the one drawing that was thought to be of sick or injured bison were actually depicting the mating dance and rituals of these majestic creatures. In the reading it says the meanings of these paintings could have been

One of the earliest evidences of the belief in a higher power comes from deep within the “Lascaux Labyrinth”, a deep cave “decorated by our Paleolithic ancestors in the stone age, seventeen thousand years ago”(Armstrong 2). The great numbers and locations of art within the Lascaux and surrounding region gives evidence that these were sacred places for the purpose of rituals, and some have compared these dwellings to temples (Armstrong 3). Whether art within cave dwellings dating back to the Paleolithic era, to magnificent churches rising to great heights around the world, the wondrous temples of the Mayans, a mountain that appears to seamlessly morph into the city of Machu Picchu, to trailers, tents and fortified compounds, belief in a power higher than one’s self has been deeply ingrained throughout centuries and a multitude of cultures. These different places are what many refer to as a church, a place to record and follow the rituals specific to their belief and to worship. Through the generations of the development of the human psyche, belief in a higher power is taught young and ingrained for many, yet meaningless for some. Furthermore, throughout the evolution of many centuries, it is inevitable that branches of these religions will follow a different path, create new churches to better practice their views of religion, and for some, belief in a higher power can be contorted to the preaching’s and worship of hate. There is a fine line between preaching scriptures and

The purpose of this work is to analyze two famous works of art that are the great examples of artistic tendencies in fourth and sixths AD. and were influence and inspiration for many artists. Most of the Christian art dates back not earlier than to the fourth century and the reason for it was the fact, that at that time the Christianity was against the law. Nevertheless, a number art works, frescoes and paintings show the beliefs, customs and traditions of the early

A ground breaking discovery of cave art in Africa, just found. I'm Amelia Moorehead, and I found a beautiful piece of cave art from about 20,000 years ago. It had a hand, a spear and some sort of animal antler. It told me some things about hunting. They must have cut of the antler from the animal with a spear. In the back round there is hands hitting rocks with spears. I came to the conclusion that they where flaking. I wonder if this painting is made by the persons from the paleolithic era who created flaking. It also made hints of people working together. There are hands on it and some are different.

In chapter 1 of the book, the paleolithic era, neolithic era, as well as the importance of art, ceramics, megaliths, myth, and sacred sites in the development of cultures during those eras were discussed. One of the main ideas that show importance in the chapter is when the cave paintings of Chauvet were discussed. The level of realism, naturalism, and representations of animal appearances help show the complexity of the paintings in the cave. Another cave that was discussed was Lascaux and the piece of art that was shown is the wall painting that had the bird headed man, rhinoceros and a bison. In this image the animals were represented with a more natural look and the human which was added later on shows a more abstract representation of human beings. With the paintings in Chauvet and Lascaux, the sophistication of the art and realism seen in the art clearly shows a more culturally linked reason as opposed to linear progression of the sophistication in art.

Art and the ability to think of concepts is what distinguishes our species from other animals - capabilities that also led us to use fire, develop the wheel and come up with the other technologies that have made our kind so successful ("BBC News - Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art," n.d.)The discoveries of cave art defied the then dominant view of cultural “progress” as something that gradually proceeded from a “savage” ancient past to the civilization” of the present (Lewis, Jurmain, & Kilgore, 2013, p. xx) The origins of art cannot simply be pegged to the latest discovery of ancient paintings or sculpture (Balter, 2009, p. xx) In these cave paintings it gives us a glance into the worlds of our

Although the digital world we live in may seem foreign to the world of Chauvet Cave, the images found in both, serve the same function: to express/preserve our memories and understanding of reality for the future. Just as our paleolithic ancestors migrated to Chauvet cave to inscribe messages of their culture/lives on the walls of chauvet cave, we take photographs to forever preserve our experiences, enabling others and ourselves to examine that exact moment within in our lives. It is within our very nature to desire to exist beyond our own mortality, and it is through our artifacts, digital or non-digital that we do so. Although it can be argued that the cave paintings in Chauvet Cave are more powerful due to the intimacy of the act of painting,

The mistrust of the world which is at the center of modernism can be attributed to the world wars and the psychological effect that it had on the individual. The horrors and violence altered public perceptions of life, a change that is evident within writers of the time period. The focus of writing shifted from the outward world to inner thoughts and feelings and overall representation of an individual’s stream of consciousness which are themes associated with modern text. In “Impact of Modernism”, focuses on the idea that world needed new outlets for expression and in finding them rejected the tradition that was already there with the quote, “Many modernists believed that by rejecting tradition they could discover radically new ways of making art.” (Impact) .The world no longer had the beauty it once did so a a discovery of new arts were needed. The mind of an individual became that new found inspiration and beauty that modern writers needed and for that reason it was one of the main focuses of modern

On September 12, 1940, four French teenagers discovered something very extraordinary in a cave. Their dog had fallen into a cave and they could not get it out. A few days later after the dog was rescued, the four boys went back to the cave to see what was inside it. After the tough one of the group was repelled into the cave by his friends, he could not believe what he was seeing. The group found artifacts that dated back to the prehistoric times. Over the next few days the teenagers explored much farther, and reported back to their teacher. They contacted a local cave art specialist that knew all about these kinds of writings. Soon after the discovery was made many visitors came from near and far just to see the cave writings. They found paintings of bison and horses running free in an open field, and there were many colors that the prehistoric people used in their paintings.

Chauvet cave painting is one of the world oldest paintings in Paleolithic Period. The painting was created over 36,000 years ago. It had pictures of lions, bison, and young mammoth.

One main way paleontologist and historians try to find out more about a development of cultural beliefs and social structure is evaluate its art. When it comes to Paleolithic era, particularly to the Homo sapiens of this era, which develop between 100,000 to 120,000 years ago, we do not have the comfort of the written word. So we must depend on the sometimes yet intelligent art work form the era. Despite we might never know exactly the real purpose of the art work has, everyone can think of some very strong suggestions about them but unless it was written in the same time era then we would never know. One thing we can concluded is that women were held at a very high regard and played a urgent role in the Paleolithic era and were regularly admired

The world before had no Internet, which made art the most significant profession to record important subjects. By acquiring this expertise, those arts could live forever. Examples of art would be cave drawings, sculptures, and figurines. Cave art is significant because it provides the theme of how the people used to live and what they needed for survival. The people back then used to draw using animal blood and animal fat. The messages they are trying to show is unclear, many theories arose, but there could be more than one answer. Maybe they wanted to use the paintings for decoration, religion, or even magic. There is no direct answer. However, hunter-gatherers used to decorate their walls with large animals, which can influence the fact that