I’ve been looking at the pictures of those cave paintings from France and Spain.
Not only was it awesome that the pictures survived these ~35,000 years but they are rally good art. The artist was talented and hard working , these can’t be the first pictures they drew, it takes years of practice to be that good.
Maybe they also drew on open cliff faces and tanned hides, neither which would have survived.
I love the handprints. I can imagine in my mind’s eye, when the job was done the artist getting their family to put their hands on the walls and they spray paint to make the handprints.
It’s amazing it has survived so long too. When you look at animals like Przewalkis horse, you realise they were drawing and shading the artworks accurately for what they saw in nature around them. It’s also interesting that recent analysis of the handprint sizes has discovered that many of them were made by women, so presumably the art works were too. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art
I’ve been looking at the pictures of those cave paintings from France and Spain.
Not only was it awesome that the pictures survived these ~35,000 years but they are rally good art. The artist was talented and hard working , these can’t be the first pictures they drew, it takes years of practice to be that good.
Maybe they also drew on open cliff faces and tanned hides, neither which would have survived.
I love the handprints. I can imagine in my mind’s eye, when the job was done the artist getting their family to put their hands on the walls and they spray paint to make the handprints.
It’s amazing it has survived so long too. When you look at animals like Przewalkis horse, you realise they were drawing and shading the artworks accurately for what they saw in nature around them. It’s also interesting that recent analysis of the handprint sizes has discovered that many of them were made by women, so presumably the art works were too. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art
can’t presume anything
that’s why I wrote “they and their” , not him or her
But here’s what I do know, it takes upper body strength and stamina to hold your arms up for hours to paint on a ceiling and to paint accurately.