Paleolithic cave paintings

[ncboman]

enjoy.

http://www.jimhopper.com/paleo.html

:)

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

The thing that amazes me the most about these "paintings" is not that early man did them, but that he did them by torch light in one of the darkest studios and seemingly impermanent canvasses on Earth, and, for an extremely limited audience.

Alan

[Bill Gunn]

The thing that amazes me the most about these "paintings" is not that early man did them, but that he did them by torch light in one of the darkest studios and seemingly impermanent canvasses on Earth, and, for an extremely limited audience.

Alan

And totally from memory, no pictures to look at, no model to copy.

[dave-t.]

http://www.jimhopper.com/images/Prancing_horse_Le_Portel_France.jpg


A lot of good ones, but that's my favorite. Looks like it could be a modern drawing.

[tincan]

And they're stunningly beautiful- impressionistic, etc.

Modern people had to teach themselves (re-teach? copy, I guess) to do this kind of artwork, whereas the cave painters had it naturally.

Amazing, and I never tire of looking at it.

[GF.]

The really amazing piece of it is that most artists have to draw something dozens - if not hundreds - of times until they can pick out the exact line that tells the whole story - then they erase everything else.

If these guys had used that approach, those caves would be nothing but black holes!

[ncboman]

fwiw;

web page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting)

I doan buy into much of anything in the above link but the pics. Educated guessing at best.

I figure some cave walls were painted because it was raining and all the outside rocks were wet. :cool: