AHIS BC 1001x Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spear-Thrower, Werner Herzog, Cave Of Altamira
30 Aug 2016
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Spotted horses and human hands, pech-merle cave, dordogne, france. Discovered by a 9-year-old girl, lead her father into a cave. Father thought the cave drawings were a hoax, that the primitive man could not create them. Whoever made them has made use of the protrusions in the stones. Capitalizes on the natural formation of the medium in order to give them a 3-d effect. The chauvet cave, vallon pont d" arc, southern france, 32000-18000 bce. By far the oldest of these drawings in caves that we currently know about. Depictions of movement within the cave (rhinos fighting) Rough highlights, after the outlines are complete they would go back and add highlights by cutting into the stone. The modeling (shading) and use of light and dark is very distinct. Tonal variation helps to communicate the morphology and such of the body of the animal itself. Cave bear skull was placed on an altar of stone that has been there for years.
