ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chauvet Cave, Cosquer Cave, Lascaux
26 Sep 2016
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Wasn"t relative to artists in italy, france or greece etc. because they did know know about it. Makes us now think of the nature of art and allows us to appreciate the process. Horse, lascaux cave, 15 000- 13 000 bce. Polished homo sapien skull, found in 2003, 160 000 bce. Shoved into hole + flint to create a face . Previously lived in europe and moved to southern spain. Mostly had no art until contact with humans. *all cave paintings done deep inside cave, low oxygen therefore hard to breathe. Deep caes thought to be spiritual places (places of importance) Believed to be painted by hunter gatherers who worshiped animals. Used charcoal, fingers, animal blood, plant matter. Caves were only lit using animal fat torches. Thought to be roman graffiti , and rejected by france. 3 divers attempted to reach cave therefore discovered it. During the time of painting, probably an ice age in europe.
