Cave painting

Ranging from cave paintings to Megalithic Structures. Starting with Aurochs, horses and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont d'Arc France 30,000-28,000 or 15,000-13,000 BCE and La Lascaux 15,000-17,000 BCE, their similarities and differences. Then jumping straight into Megalithic structures, Megalithic tomb at Newgrange, Ireland 3,200 BCE and Megalithic monument Stonehenge, Europe 3,000-2,000 BCE their differences and similarities. Aurochs, horses and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont d'Arc France 30,000-28,000 or 15,000-13,000 BCE (figure #1) and La Lascaux 15,000-17,000 BCE (figure #2) cave painting. The first painting is the oldest painting to have been found. The painting shows a main…

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Discovered only recently, the oldest cave painting was found in Spain, believed to be left by the Neanderthals and is now the oldest and historical cave paintings discovered. A previous painting found in France was dated to be from 37,000 years ago, is now replaced by the Spanish cave painting, believed to be more than 48,000 years ago. Now in modern days, paint is very common. There are many different varieties of paints and uses, such as acrylic, water-based, oil-based, sheen, latex, and…

Antique pieces of history are extirpated by the human race constantly throughout the world everyday. The cave painting by Banksy exemplifies a man in present-day society unknowingly washing away artwork, nature, and traditions, with no regards of the art works history. Generally speaking the man is behaving the way he does since it is how society around him is. Symbols of the culture are present in the painting and have no interest to history which gives the man the sense of selfishness…

This is reflected in the cave art: ancient artistic representations of the many facets of human social life, covering all aspects of their social and spiritual activities. These manifestations reveal that from early times human beings have been creating a system of artistic representation related to daily practices. Most of them, are paintings located in every continent all over the world having a wide geographical scope, and besides of their motifs, even the materials they used were similar in…

(1) Where is Koonalda? What is found there? Koonalda Cave lies in the middle south of the continent of Australia, in the dry and desolate area of Nullarbor. This cave is significant because it is one of the multiple connecting caves formed by acidic water percolating through the limestone composition, which is a created environment for preserving fossil records. It is at Koonalda that the earliest human impressions of human hand incisions swirled throughout the interior that archaeologists can…

Located in France near the town of Montignac, are the Lascaux Caves. Filled with bountiful cave paintings dating back over 15,000 years ago, these caves were discovered unintentionally. While following their dog, four teenagers discovered these works of art after traveling down the narrow entrance leading into the caves (History.com). The Lascaux Caves have different sections based on the collections of artwork painted on the walls, including the Hall of Bulls, the Chamber of Engravings, and the…

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is one of the oldest caves of all time. In fact, it is determined that the cave existed for about 30,000-33,000 years (Herzog, 2010). In 1994, a small group of French scientist lead by Jean-Marie Chauvet discovered the cave, and when the French government realized how precious it was, they shut off the access to it (Herzog, 2010). However, Werner Herzog a documentary filmmaker got permission to access the cave. He believed that the Chauvet Cave contains most of the…

Is Cave Art Art? Art to me is something that tells a story from your point of view. Its something that you have thought of and brought it to life. It doesn’t matter what it is or how it is drawn or created, its something that you can see along with being able to look at it and know that it is something you thought of. Art to me, you can use when your words fail you. You can draw something to symbolize what you are going through or have gone threw. Even when you are gone you always leave a…

Describe the Work Hall of Bulls is a beautiful Upper-Paleolithic cave painting made in ca. 15,000 B.C. The painting is scaled larger than life size standing 25 feet tall and 62 feet wide; and, it resides inside of a cave on a coarse, rigid, and uneven rock wall. The cave is located in a small geographical area called Lascaux located in Dordogne France. Furthermore, there is no known artist for the Hall of Bulls, because of historical ignorance and the age of the painting; however,…