They drew spotted horses they had seen, because they were beautiful. Our society is so utilitarian; it cannot imagine doing something just to communicate beauty. I think this was the beginning of language as they may have created different sounds to indicate different animals and objects the same way that meerkats and apes use sounds. When we look at a cave paintings I think we are looking at a classroom.
Art is communication-with those who are not there, but who will be someday. I still think the message is: I saw this, or this happened, I was impressed, what do you think? You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.
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Cave artists ground up colored rock into a powder. They used yellow ocher and red oxide rocks, as well as charcoal burned wood. This powder was mixed to a paste using spit, water, or animal fat, which helped the paint stick to the cave walls. Answer: The early humans painted on cave walls to express their feelings, depict their lives, events and their daily activities.
Hunting wild animals and gathering food for their survival was the most important activity. More practically, he proposed that the painted animals were meant to magically attract the actual animals they represented, the better for humans to hunt and eat them.
The cave art suggests that humans once had better ways to spend their time. This hypothesis suggests that prehistoric humans painted, drew, engraved, or carved for strictly aesthetic reasons in order to represent beauty. However, all the parietal figures, during the 30, years that this practice lasted in Europe, do not have the same aesthetic quality.
Cave art is generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function, sometimes both. The exact meanings of the images remain unknown, but some experts think they may have been created within the framework of shamanic beliefs and practices. The paintings may have been made for practical reasons: There is some hidden symbolism which may show the techniques of hunting, or the routes the animals took. People painted what they wished for or what they had dreamt of.
These artistic innovators were probably Neanderthals. Except, as it turns out, prehistoric people apparently knew it too—and got it right in their drawings the majority of the time.
Of the 39 ancient cave paintings depicting the motion of four-legged animals that were considered in the study, 21 nailed the sequence correctly, a success rate of Cavemen artists knew what they were doing. Remarkably, even the paintings and statues studied that were made more recently than , after scientists knew for sure how four-legged animals walked, still got it right just Even apart from artists, a sizable number of depictions of four-legged animals made during the 20th century specifically for the sake of accuracy got the sequence wrong too, according to references used in the study.
Out of renditions analyzed, just
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