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Paleolithic Art
horses, bison, and handprints
The palioithic period, based on the greek word Paleo meaning old and lithos, meaning stone, is recorded as the start of human art. icluding the waterworn pebbel which is recorded is the first art piece created by man. The most famouse ofpaleoitic art are cave painting.the first cave painting found in almost perfect conditon was in the altamira caves located in spane. The cave was discoverd by a hunter in 1868. It was then visted Marcelino de Sautuola, a nobelman from from Santander, who found animal bones and flint implements there. Sautuola returned in the summer of 1879 and on one visit was accompanied by his little daughter Maria; it was she who first noticed paintings of bulls, later to be reconized as bison. There are many of these caves found and more and more
paintings, one might ask why animals. Threw all achent art most things serve a porpuse, bison was there life source. when the bison moved they moved it was life or death in a strickly hunter gather sence of being. Bison being as important that they are to the life of the early paleolithic human its only natrule that they would study the creatures. Who can say what sparked the creative nerve in man to draw on the walls of his cave. It could be something as complex as trible markings and and a way to tell past storys. to something as simple as he was bored and it was to wet and cold out to leave the cave. All of the bison have one thing in common they are all floating, the achent painter never drew a landscape for his bison which could represent mabey past hunts.
someone can look back at history and note that animales are oneofthe most influential things to inspire artist, exspacly from a religus stand point. this can probably also be linked into the fact that all of the people at this time where hunter gathering. Maby the prehistoric man saw creatures like horses with speed and bison with power and looked up to them. If a person looks at history as man gets more civil and sophisticated the more human their idea of god becomes. if you look at the egiptions all of thier gods have the heads of animales to up sences or trates that they themselfs wish they had. how much would it help the hunt if they had the reflexes of a cat, or the eyes of an egal.
In a cave in Pech-Merle, lot france, painting of very fat horses where found that almost looked air brushed on the cave wall, because like all paleolithic art it is a mistory what these mean but one can speculate that the fatness of the horse can say something about being plentafull. what also found was negative hand prints witch could be the very first signutures of a paleolithic artist . he would take his painting material and spit it at the wall of sometimes just dip his hand in.
One of the most interesting things i find about paleolithic art is that the same things man was doing,22,000 years ago, is the same thing he’s doing today. In inner citys people are drawing on their inviroment. These people are called graffitie artist and are hated by almost all city oficales. it would seem that most people are stuck that art should only be on paper or in muesumes not on their boring bus commuit to work. These (graff writers) are doing just what their anchent, anchent ansisters did they are going out into the invoreoment avalible to them and painting what they know useing make shift materials. the only diffrence is cave painting are looked at as priceless works of art, graffitie is looked at as a filth that should be abolished.
horses, bison, and handprints
The palioithic period, based on the greek word Paleo meaning old and lithos, meaning stone, is recorded as the start of human art. icluding the waterworn pebbel which is recorded is the first art piece created by man. The most famouse ofpaleoitic art are cave painting.the first cave painting found in almost perfect conditon was in the altamira caves located in spane. The cave was discoverd by a hunter in 1868. It was then visted Marcelino de Sautuola, a nobelman from from Santander, who found animal bones and flint implements there. Sautuola returned in the summer of 1879 and on one visit was accompanied by his little daughter Maria; it was she who first noticed paintings of bulls, later to be reconized as bison. There are many of these caves found and more and more
paintings, one might ask why animals. Threw all achent art most things serve a porpuse, bison was there life source. when the bison moved they moved it was life or death in a strickly hunter gather sence of being. Bison being as important that they are to the life of the early paleolithic human its only natrule that they would study the creatures. Who can say what sparked the creative nerve in man to draw on the walls of his cave. It could be something as complex as trible markings and and a way to tell past storys. to something as simple as he was bored and it was to wet and cold out to leave the cave. All of the bison have one thing in common they are all floating, the achent painter never drew a landscape for his bison which could represent mabey past hunts.
someone can look back at history and note that animales are oneofthe most influential things to inspire artist, exspacly from a religus stand point. this can probably also be linked into the fact that all of the people at this time where hunter gathering. Maby the prehistoric man saw creatures like horses with speed and bison with power and looked up to them. If a person looks at history as man gets more civil and sophisticated the more human their idea of god becomes. if you look at the egiptions all of thier gods have the heads of animales to up sences or trates that they themselfs wish they had. how much would it help the hunt if they had the reflexes of a cat, or the eyes of an egal.
In a cave in Pech-Merle, lot france, painting of very fat horses where found that almost looked air brushed on the cave wall, because like all paleolithic art it is a mistory what these mean but one can speculate that the fatness of the horse can say something about being plentafull. what also found was negative hand prints witch could be the very first signutures of a paleolithic artist . he would take his painting material and spit it at the wall of sometimes just dip his hand in.
One of the most interesting things i find about paleolithic art is that the same things man was doing,22,000 years ago, is the same thing he’s doing today. In inner citys people are drawing on their inviroment. These people are called graffitie artist and are hated by almost all city oficales. it would seem that most people are stuck that art should only be on paper or in muesumes not on their boring bus commuit to work. These (graff writers) are doing just what their anchent, anchent ansisters did they are going out into the invoreoment avalible to them and painting what they know useing make shift materials. the only diffrence is cave painting are looked at as priceless works of art, graffitie is looked at as a filth that should be abolished.