Cavemen art

These are very old works painted by hunters who never went to art schools. Yet the basic elements of lines, shapes, colours, textures, form...

Get the free 2-year set of blogs from DeconstructingTime in a PDF eBook. Click now to view a PDF version online and/or to download the PDF file. More than 10,000 years before the earliest beginnings of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia and about 5,000 years even before the start of agriculture, cavemen were creating sophisticated and accurate paintings in color of animals that they hunted and ate. In the pitch dark of the Altamira cave in Western Spain -- two hundred meters or so from…

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Rachel Saunders

Also exists in "negative" (blue) version. Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production: In the Gabarnmung cave of northern Australia, the oldest paintings certainly predate 28,000 years ago, while the most recent ones were made less than a century ago.

Cave painting of deer at Lascaux, France

Homo neanderthalensis, a Modern era image by Karen Carr and created for Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Includes .