Cave Art try 3 Flashcards
What’s this Pic?
The Sorcerer, Cave of the Three Brothers, 13,000 BC sketch by Henry Breuil.
Breslin resketched the original image and concluded that this proved that the people of this time believed in some sort of ancient religion, because this represents something not seen in the physical world. Whether or not he fabricated the image is unprovable.
What’s this pic?
Lascaux Caves, France, 17,000-13,000 BC
Discovered by guy trying to find his lost dog. The cave contains lots of geometric shapes and dots and symbols and paintings.
The Megaloceres and Dots is a painting of a giant prehistoric deer.
The Hunting Scene shows a wooly rhino being disemboweled by a man who possibly has a bird beak. This is the earliest narrative scene we see in art.
What’s this pic?
Peche-Merle Cave, France, 23,000-22,000 BC.
This is the Spotted Horse and Human Hands, found in one of the few caves that still allow visitors.
What’s this Pic?
Chauvet Cave, France, 30,000 BC.
The Wall of Animals.
This art piece is nearly in pristine condition because it was discovered in the 1990s. It is one of the oldest paintings, animals are beautifully detailed, and animals have multiple legs and horns drawn on it giving the image a sense of motion or animation.
The older paintings are, the more detailed they tend to be. Seems to be specific locations where eruptions of artistic talent emerged. Some of the paintings in this cave were painted thousands of years apart.
The smiling bear painting is in this cave.
What’s this pic?
The Cave of Three Brothers, France, 15,000-10,000 BC.
The Bison Relief
Discovered by three brothers. This sculpture was originally a rock that jutted from the ground, but the artist packed clay onto the hut into the physical form of a bison, then carved the finer details later in the softer clay.
This suggests that people did not make art to control the hunt because the people in this area did not eat bison.
What are the main themes of this chapter?
- they did not live in the caves they were painting in. They were migratory hunter/gatherers.
- they probably came back to the caves and painted for some sort of ritualistic context. They ritually came back to these places and painted, sometimes years apart.
- They rarely painted pictures of themselves. Rarely humans, even rarer a singular human, and definitely no self-portraits. If there were, it was usually human-animal hybrids.
- “There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of science, or religion, or both.” (President Nelson)
What’s this pic?
Dead(?) Bison, Altamira Caves, Spain, dating 13.000-11,ooo BC. These caves were discovered in the 1870s.
What is Deep History?
Deep History is the vast eons of time for which humans existed, most of which we have no record of. Humans have been around for nearly 200,000 years, yet the Western view of history pertains that any civilization without a written record or existing artifacts are pre-historic, because it is history before record. Deep History is everything, from when humans first existed regardless of records.
What’s this Pic?
The Sorcerer, Cave of the Three Brothers, 13,000 BC sketch by Henry Breuil.
Breslin resketched the original image and concluded that this proved that the people of this time believed in some sort of ancient religion, because this represents something not seen in the physical world. Whether or not he fabricated the image is unprovable.
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