1. What are Cave Paintings?
Cave paintings are paintings that are panted on walls and th
e ceilings of the cave.
2. How old are the oldest paintings?
The oldest painting is 32,000 years old.
3. When the Europeans first encountered cave paintings, why were they believed to be a hoax?
The new Darwinian thinking on evolution was interpreted as meaning that early humans could not have been sufficiently advanced to create art.
4. Why are the Cave paintings important to study?
Resent reappraisals and increasing numbers of discovering have illustrated their authenticity and indicated the high levels of artistry of upper palaeolitic humans who used only basic tools.
5. What were the common themes that these paintings showed?
Most common thems in paintings are large wild animals, like bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract paintings.
6. What were the Shamans thoughts of doing in the caves?
The shaman would retreat into the darkness of the caves, inter in to a trance state and then paint images of them selves.
Part II: Caves at Lascaux, France
Upload images and site the web site. write the title of the painting and a brief description/analysis of the painting
this is a painting of a horse from Lascaux, France. it looks like the horse is running away from something its scared of or something it has never seen befor. under the horse is a underline thing that makes it look like another animal.
this project is an iPod silhouette doing the things we do best or some thing your comfertable doing. For this project we used photoshop and the pin tool to trace over the original picture to make it a silhouette. After we changed the color it looks like a real iPod ad that could be in a tv commercial.