Cave Painting Videos

This work of art is pigment on rock. It represents a running woman with body paint, a raffia skirt, and horned headgear. There are tiny dots painted over her body, representing body paint.

The animals ranged from horses to rhinos, and even cave lions. The drawings were detailed enough to allow scientists to decipher the paintings and learn what they were witnessing at that period of time. Along with the paintings of the animals, bones were found in the cave and that also revealed more about the life in the cave other than just the cavemen and women. Using all of this information given to them, the scientists were able to learn not only how the cavemen and women lived but how animals lived during this time. The drawings in the cave in Southern France seemed to be quite anatomically correct to the animals roaming Earth today. The drawings are so detailed that there is not much hesitation on what type of animal they could have been drawing, it is obvious what their intent was. A surprise regarding the animal paintings was the lack of anything other than mammals. Throughout the cave there were a handful of paintings depicting insects such as butterflies and the one sole drawing of a human, but besides that they animals were mammals.

In the painting Hall of the Bulls, the artist had a special ability to draw what he/she sees. Furthermore, the individual who was drawing the painting illustrates in great detail about what was happened on the outside of the cave. Telling or describing something relating to their activities or something they saw during their experience. Hunting of dangerous animals I think were their motivation. I felt that it was their own special way of taking and communicating to each other. That they were profound primitive culture in the Paleolithic know as the Magdalenian’s who were hunters and exceptional artists. Moreover, the paintings consist for the far mostly large animals that primarily used color such as red, yellow, black, brown, and violet with the use of many different patterns, lines and background. It was said to be the ice age when mammoths still roamed when this picture predicted to have been drawn. Also hollow bones were found to indicate that they might have blown paint through a tube.

What are common motifs found in cave paintings such as those at Lascaux and Altamira? Summarize the current theories about their original meaning and purpose

You can’t just assume the cave, or any symbol, stands for one specific meaning when it could stand for a whole number of things. A symbol in a book may be a simple object, such as a cave, but, like a cave, theres way more depth to a symbol than what you see on the outside.

The first thing I noticed is a young two to four years old white boy on the right side of the painting. His left arm is around a male lion, and his right hand is holding a stick with some blue berries that resemble like grapes. At his right food is female lion and lamb laying on grass. Behind the lioness and the lamb is a hollow trunk of half a tree with yellow tree, a vine with the blue grape-like berries, green bushes, and hill that has orange tree and hollow tree trunk. On the boy’s left side is a white goat with black spots and leopard laying down on the dirt ground. Behind the male lion is a

The other paintings in the series depict the course of an empire through states that include savagery, pastoral, consummation, destruction and desolation. The first painting in the series is savagery; this painting demonstrates a forest opposite the river in the middle of a raging storm and a view of wilderness from Cole’s perspective. The details within this piece of art include a hunter wearing skins as well as the encampment of Indians and their teepees. The hunter in the animal skins is representative of the survival strategies used by prehistoric people before the modern era. The encampment shows the being of society as a whole through the use of culture represented by Native

The paintings are of 10,000 years of difference. The animal paintings are +18,000 years old and the hand paintings are 28,000 years old. There is a huge difference of time because the theory is that the cave was lost however, then it was rediscovered. The cave was

This cave had drawings of miraculous things that no one had ever seen before. The

Her realistic depictions of animals elevated their status as subject matter on a grandiose scale of history painting. Sympathetic to their cause, and clearly identifying with them on a personal level, Bonheur was successful in portraying their significance by visualizing their importance within the narrative of humankind. At a time when a woman painter was not typically elevated to equal status of men in power, she as an artist retained the faculty of seeing and depicting, and therefore contributing to the chronicle of

Soon it became something else. The face paint became their masks, the chance to act outside of civilized manner, letting loose all the years of being taught the right etiquette, the right manners, society in general. At one point in the story, it separates the civilized from the savage and intimidated those who were not of the tribe " 'They'll be painted! You know how it is.' They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought."

This archeological study will define the symbolism of tribal hunter society in the mural paintings of the Toquepala Caves. These paintings depict the methods of hunting that early human beings utilized to trap animals as a food source. The prehistoric elements of the paintings define the use of wool brushes and red ochre paints, which define one of the earliest cave painting depictions of hunting rites. The Collawa tribal group created these paintings as part of a celebration of the hunting traditions that sustained the tribe. The method of corralling and controlling a herds of “guanaco” that provided an efficient means of gathering food without the strenuous efforts of chasing the animal. These paintings depict a mode of hunting society

This painting, made through blowing pigment onto cave walls, has generated several interpretations. Due to its sagging stomach, the horse appears to be pregnant. Near the horse are two nearly parallel forms that have been discerned as either arrows, harpoons, or plants. However, Leroi-Gourhan believes that these forms are phallic signs, thus male symbols, while the lines above the horse translate to female. The horses’ pregnant appearance would thus correspond with Leroi-Gourhan’s idea of paired male-female imagery. Contrastingly, those that believe that the two forms are arrows consider this depiction of a horse as a form sympathetic magic, meaning that if you killed the animal in a drawing, you could kill it in real life.

Most of the art found can date from anywhere between 4,000 to 12,000 years or more. Archaeologists believe that some of the missing rock art could have been up to 33,000 years old. The animals that were carved or painted were the animals that were hunted or lived in their nearby are, some of which are now extinct. Some of these animals that are still around today include hippos, rhinos, elephants, giraffes, and even fish. Some of the new paintings include ostriches and antelope. Another type of engraving they would see often would be owoza, which were portray warriors, wearing feathers and they were armed with shields and knives. Some were dance scenes. Some paintings discovered were over 6 feet in height. The art shows the culture of the ancient people of Chad. During the Pastoral period, the engravings or paintings showed men herding their cattle or hunting, while the women and children were hanging around camp. In addition, there was a lot of horse art found, which is some of the most interesting art. The paintings of the scenes that are more pastoral are painted with a red base because the red base signifies towards domestication in the Tibesti Mountains. There is so much rock art in the Tibesti Mountains that archaeologists believe they have only found less than half of the art that is still out there. Jeremy Curl, an explorer, states, “There have only been a handful of expeditions to the Tibesti in the last hundred years because it is so remote and inaccessible. It’s time for a new one.” He took a trip through the Tibesti Mountains to view some of the amazing rock art. There has been around 200 engraving sights and 100 painting sights discovered. Although the paintings and engravings have went through time and weathering, you can still see most of the art clearly. Rock art is still an extremely important part of Toubou people's lives. The reason

One might assume that they are frightened because they have bare children on their back. However to me, the title of this painting may come from the fact that the angelic children are molesting the fish. If this is the case it may have to do with how the humans are depleting the earth of it bountiful treasures. The bull in this painting seems to like the idea of taking the woman across to the other side. The bull adorns a flower necklace and the woman is wearing an orange dress with white and yellow accents that seems to flow in the wind.