Civilizations who created parietal art were trying to interpret their surroundings by making illustrations with whatever material they could get their hands on. At the time of this art period, the ice age was just inaugurating. The people of this time lived in caves for their protection from the harsh environment.
Parietal art or “cave art” is the oldest art dating back to 700,000 years ago. It includes cave paintings, drawings, etchings, and carvings on the interior of rock shelters and caves. There are many ideas of why this specific civilization created this art and what was going on at the time that made them produce this type of artwork. One idea was that people made it as a sort of storybook or as a rule guide for their hunts for food and safety. This art influenced and inspired talents like the Cave of Hands and the Bhimbetka Petroglyphs because both were engraved on cave walls through different mediums of …show more content…
The focus of this type of art was mainly images of animals due to their dependence of animals for food. It was believed that Animals were painted before a hunt as form of magic to weaken their prey. They used fingers, sticks, fur, and moss to paint the cave walls and usually followed the lines and depressions of the cave to form the image. The culture this art was created from moved a lot to hunt for food, which explains why this type of art is in more than one cave. The Lascaux and Altamira cave art inspired the idea of painting on walls such as graffiti and telling story’s through your