Cave Art Research Paper

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 piece of art you have created behind. To me a body can be considered a piece of art, because two people have created it, and you have made the art unique by making it yourself. To me cave art is considered art because the in the Paleolithic age our ancestors took the time to create something that was on their mind. Whether it was drawings telling a story in the caves or a design on a rock. It was developed by the mind of our ancestors, who are the only ones able to tell us what life was like during this age. Who are we to take away their work and consider it not art? They are not here to describe the many stories they have been through there is no writing of what has happened but only illustrations we can depend on. We can not discourage something …show more content…
Our ancestors were able to express themselves by finding objects around them to re create colors such as reds in the form of iron ore, whites from chalk, or black from charcoals. They have found away to make their art pop out give more depth then just a simple black and white sketch. They have made it unique as well as their own by adding color. Art is an expression of oneself, by adding these colors, they continue to show that they have created art. They have found themselves way of demonstrating a rare way of creating art from the resources they had available to