#Chauvet Cave

[palaeosinensis]

Chauvet-style cave art lions. I completely forgot I made this piece until I unearthed it digging for something else entirely. I actually deeply enjoy doing this kind of work but don't make much of it as A) it's a huge pain to store and B) it's heavy & challenging to ship. It'd be a dream to get to do these life-size; this one is roughly 11x14 I think. Will have to measure it. It's made by layering several kinds of materials together to make faux stone and then throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it. Watered down acrylics, airbrush, carbon pencil, graphite powder, gouache, conte...

[shyestgrape]

Little Finger (2018)

[itsadragonaesthetic]

I'm not even a huge nerd for human history but the art in the Chauvet cave just... makes me cry man. I can't even really articulate my feelings right now it just brings me to tears. I think it's because I see myself in the art. I even get that artist feeling of "I wanna draw something like that/I should use this as a reference" for art that is MORE THAN 30,000 YEARS OLD. It's not just pretty to look at. It doesn't even just make you wonder. It fucking reaches across time and inspires you like the artist is still alive for you to talk to. It's like feeling that soul-touching feeling that only art can make you feel and feeling like that is the birthplace of that feeling. It feels like a celebration of the thing that makes my life worth living. Fuck man.

[magicandchill]

LISTEN

listen

cave paintings????

*chef’s kiss*

like every time my archaeology professor brings up THIS image in class

(Chauvet Cave)

I FUCKING SHIT MYSELF WITH EMOTION

LOOK?? AT THE STYLE? THE ARTISTRY THAT GOES INTO ALL OF THESE? THE UNDERSTANDING OF SHADING, OF ALMOST INCLUDING EMOTION ON THE ANIMALS FACES? OF MOTION? OF DRAMATIC EFFECT?

THIS SHIT IS OVER 30,000 Y/O

AH

Humans??? my beloved????

anyways this is why I like Anthropology/Archaeology BECAUSE LOOK AT ‘EM IM SO PROUD OF THEIR WORK!!!

[dejahisashmom]

Footprints, Fairies and even a Foreskin: 10 Bizarre Relics from History | Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/relics-0015002

[samarajethwa]

Inspired by that gorgeous Chauvet bear cave painting and also Djungelskog

[artofmaquenda]

The Chauvet cave art of a cave hyena

And my pin, with a personal touch to it 👀

https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1171672415

[conformi]

@maisonvalentino​ #ValentinoVintage Valentino, Haute Couture Spring Summer 1992  VS Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France, 32,000–30,000 BP

[ancientorigins]

The Chauvet Cave in France is home to art that’s thousands of years old. To protect this archaeological marvel the French have created an exact replica, Chauvet 2.

[skullinahat]

i've been looking at some cave art recently. old, old art- drawn by hands not unlike my own 32,000 years ago.

i find it so fascinating how we can never truly know what those people thought. so much of archeology is guesswork. we use what is left to try our hardest to understand what little we can. i will never know what it was like to stand in that cave, to watch those artists, to help make those paintings. there is an abyss of difference between the people then and me, now, that i cannot ever bridge, never know. (did they have a concept of artist? did they have a word for drawing?)

but there is something that we both did. i have drawn lions and dogs and bears before, from the side, like they did.

that line, from the bottom of the ears curving into the nose- i have drawn that line.

whether they scraped away charcoal, or painted with fingers, or the burnt nub of a stick, we drew the same line.

32,000 years apart, and we traced the outline of the same animal.

we saw the same sun fall across a lion's face, and we drew it the same way.

even with all this unknown difference- (did they have words or concepts for any of this? what did their art mean to them? why did they do it? did they enjoy it, like me?)

my hands have followed the very path theirs did.

[palaeosinensis]

I was trying this morning to distill what makes paleolithic European cave art...well cave art! And then apply it to an animal not seen in Europe. The technique was more important here than the results; I think the big bodies & smaller heads yet otherwise accurate features are a result of the artists having a sort of tunnel vision while working. As one drifts part to part lifting up the implement as little as possible the parts appear in proportion to their immediate neighbor. They are also distilled to their most important details & for the body that's a wide rectangular space. If you picture yourself working on a heavily textured wall as tall or taller than you are with the equivalent of a tea light (oil lamps) or a flickering torch you can imagine how easy it would be to get that kind of focused tunnel vision. While we see tunnel vision as a bad thing while learning art today in terms of cave art I just sort of see it as a natural consequence. You're going to focus really hard on what needs it; there are no erasers. Additional paint can't be bought at the store. Stone walls have limited access. You're going to make the best of every resource while you're there. Besides who said the animal had to be proportional anyway? You know exactly what you're looking at! Artist commentary: it was challenging deciding what was most important but also representing that important thing as accurately as possible. I feel like that's a common thread in all cave art from peoples across the world: draw what's most important. The rest will work out.

[whereishermes]

Ancient Cave Art | Chauvet, France

The cave of Chauvet in the Ardéche Valley of France contains the earliest known art made by humans—depictions of bears, panthers, horses, and more, made 30,000 years ago. Examining this art closely gives us much information about the humans who created it—what their lives, beliefs, and environment must have been like. Because these cave paintings represent some of the earliest human artistic…

[lalulutres]

Ancient Art: Horses facing each other

from Chauvet Cave, France. 30,000 year old

art.

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

SET FIVE - ROUND ONE - MATCH TWO

"Uffington White Horse" (c.1380-550 BCE) / Chauvet Cave Bear (30,000 and 32,000 BP)

UFFINGTON WHITE HORSE: its public landscape art, its from bronze or iron age and people still maintain it and this chain of people working together, even through the original purpose is lost, the art is not, the community aspect of it (anonymous)

CHAUVET CAVE BEAR: I'm not a very emotional person but there's something about prehistoric cave paintings that make me cry my eyes out. There are too many examples (please check out the Altamira cave bisons they're beautiful) but one that never fails to amaze me is the Chauvet Cave Bear. He's painting with so much care, he's only one of hundreds and thousands of paintings in this cave, many of them more detailed, colorful and dynamic than this guy, but there's something about the careful lines that the artist (bc prehistoric people were artists) put on this wall that touches me. It's put in a scene where he's hunted, he's alone, in a peaceful position, possibly rummaging through a bush. The anatomy is maybe even cartoony with its tiny ears and small mouth but it's realistic in all the ways that matter at that time, anybody could look at it and see a bear, the artist had to carefully watch this bear (or many bears) to memorize its lines, it's humps and structure and the scrounge up the materials to paint, and finally put to rock this animal they admired from a distance. The Chauvet Cave has thousands of cave bear remains, estimating 200 individuals. The cave also has a quarter of ALL cave bear depictions in pre-history. That means that whoever painted this bear not only saw one in the wild but lived alongside these animals their entire lives, their culture was deeply locked with them. There's a chamber in this cave with 50 bear skulls, all of them carefully placed. This painting shows so much care and love from people that are often depicted as brute and uncaring but they were just as capable as any current human of not only caring but DEPICTING their love. It's a beautiful early representation of our capability for admiration and cherishing things that weren't essential for basic survival. Also the artist was damn good that bear has so much expression without even having eyes, the line thickness balance is amazing. (athenasabattoir)

(The "Uffington White Horse" is a prehistoric hill figure created by trenches filled with crushed white chalk. It is 110 m (360 ft) long and is located on Whitehorse Hill in England.

The "Chauvet Cave Bear" is a prehistoric cave painting in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave located in Ardèche, France. This cave contains hundreds of preserved figure paintings from the Upper Paleolithic time period. The central bear is 120 cm (47 in) and was painted using red pigment.)