write a note on the chararcteristis of cave painting found in spain
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Cave paintings are a type of parietal art found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings ...
The first painted cave acknowledged as being Paleolithic, meaning from the Stone Age, was Altamira in Spain
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Miranda S. Spivack wrote in the Washington Post: “For aficionados of early human art like my husband and me, Spain may be the best destination in Europe (some say the world) to see all kinds of prehistoric art, up close. Spain's sites, scattered throughout the country, include dozens of dimly lit caves like this one as well as hundreds of “abrigos," or outdoor overhangs, where the images are still very bright. “If you are interested in the very origins of artistic expression, this is where you need to be," said Ian Tattersall, a specialist in Spanish cave art and a former curator at New York's American Museum of Natural History. “What is really cool about many of the Spanish caves is the fact that they cover a period of cave art not very common in France," although that is where their name comes from. That would be the Solutrean period of more than 20,000 years ago, Tattersall said. [Source: Miranda S. Spivack, Washington Post, October 30, 2014.
“The oldest cave art in the world is thought to be in El Castillo, a popular Spanish cave an hour's drive away near the town of Puente Viesgo, where there are outlines of human hands as well as images of animals. The cave artists only occasionally drew human forms. Those are often simpler than the animal portraits: stick figures, mysterious symbols that may denote fertility. Or not. “There is always an explanation du jour, and everybody has their own pet theory about this stuff," Tattersall said. “It does beg to be explained, but we only know that these deep cave sites that are decorated were very special and meaningful places to the people who made them."
“Sometimes the artists were remarkably sophisticated, such as in Covalanas, in the Cantabrian region, where the artist was able to incorporate the curve of the stone to make it seem that the animals were running. These works combine sculpture and painting, alongside hand prints and dots."