How was art born in the paleolithic age ?
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Cave paintings are some of the most intriguing aspects of ancient life, but how much do you know about them? We'll explore this art form in this lesson, and learn about some of the most famous sites.
Paleolithic Cave Paintings
One of the most intriguing aspects of Paleolithic life is cave paintings. Paleolithic people were nomadic hunter-gatherers, so the fact that they took time to create art on the walls of caves is really fascinating. Of course, cave paintings may be interesting to us for other reasons as well. For one, they're huge mysteries, and we honestly know very little about who created them or why. More importantly, however, there's something deeply human about them. Art connects us in a unique way, so these ancient paintings may be the closest we'll ever come to really know the ancient people of the Paleolithic.
Dates and Ranges
Let's start by looking at where, and when, we find Paleolithic cave art. The Paleolithic period realistically begins with the dawn of humanity as a species, and lasts until the advent of farming. That period encompasses most of human history, but cave paintings really only became prominent for the last part of it, roughly 40,000-14,000 BCE.
This is an important time period, because 40,000 BCE is roughly when humanity moved out of Africa and into Europe. In fact, cave painting as a Paleolithic phenomenon is something we closely associate with this transition; most cave paintings are found in Europe. This art is something that seems to have been fairly unique to these societies, and is not found as consistently in Africa, Asia or the Americas.
What Was Cave Art Like?
So, what did cave art actually look like? Cave art can be found in a number of forms. Much of it was painted, using natural pigments like ochre and charcoal to create their artwork. Due to the available resources, cave paintings tend to be black, brown, and reddish colors. Paints could be applied using animal-hair brushes, plants, fingers, or even by spraying the pigment onto the wall through a hollow reed.
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Besides paintings, cave-wall art also including etchings, in which shapes were carved into the wall. Often, painting and etching was combined, adding some 3-dimensional depth to 2-dimensional shapes, which is pretty sophisticated and really cool.
With these techniques, artists created a number of different images. The vast, vast majority are of animals, from mammoths to deer to cave bears. We've actually learned a bit about Ice Age mammals from how they were represented in cave paintings. In some caves, these animals were anthropomorphized, containing certain human characteristics like bipedalism or human body parts. This was rare, but images of actual humans were even rarer. To round it out, ancient artists also created abstract geometric shapes and patterns, often intermingled with other designs.
In the Palaeolithic period, the art form consisted primarily of two types: fixed (like cave paintings) and portable (like tiny stones, carved small objects, and figurines, etc.).
Explanation:
- Most of the small portable artifacts is carved out of stone, or modeled of mud using just created stone tools. Stationary art styles such as cave paintings in Western Europe were produced from paints crafted from blends of rocks, ochre, burnt bone meal and charcoal combined into mediums of mud, oil, animal fats, and tree saps.
- Most of the portable art from this period was figurative, implying it literally portrayed something familiar, whether animal or human in shape. Cave paintings include much more non-figurative art which implies that many things are more conceptual than practical.
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