Some prehistoric art
September 6, 2017 1:22 PM Subscribe
From the Encyclopaedia of Art Education. Starting with c.40,000-25,000 BCE: the
Venus of Hohle Fels, the Lion Man of Hohlestein Stadel, the Chauvet cave paintings, Kimberley rock art and the Burrup Peninsula rock art.
c.25,000-20,000 BCE: Venuses of Dolni Vestonice, Lespugue, Monpazier, Mal'ta, and the mutilated handprints of Gargas Cave.
c.20,000-15,000 BCE: Man being chased by musk ox, giant fish (halibut), Hall of the Bulls, and the Bradshaw cave paintings.
c.15,000-10,000 BCE: Tuc d'Audobert Bison Reliefs, Cap Blanc frieze, the Sorcerer of Trois Frères Cave, and the Venus of Monruz-Neuchatel.
c.10,000-8,000 BCE: the Cave of the Hands, the Shigir Idol (previously on MeFi), and the animal relief structures of Gobekli Tepe.
Some more? Here's the site's Top 100 stone age artworks.
c.25,000-20,000 BCE: Venuses of Dolni Vestonice, Lespugue, Monpazier, Mal'ta, and the mutilated handprints of Gargas Cave.
c.20,000-15,000 BCE: Man being chased by musk ox, giant fish (halibut), Hall of the Bulls, and the Bradshaw cave paintings.
c.15,000-10,000 BCE: Tuc d'Audobert Bison Reliefs, Cap Blanc frieze, the Sorcerer of Trois Frères Cave, and the Venus of Monruz-Neuchatel.
c.10,000-8,000 BCE: the Cave of the Hands, the Shigir Idol (previously on MeFi), and the animal relief structures of Gobekli Tepe.
Some more? Here's the site's Top 100 stone age artworks.
Hell yeah! Great post.
posted by bonobothegreat at 3:56 PM on September 6, 2017
posted by bonobothegreat at 3:56 PM on September 6, 2017
What's always amazed me, are the sophisticated abstractions they achieved right out of the gate. Shouldn't you have to master conventional draftsmanship before you're able to do drawings as perfectly simple and evocative as those in the Hall of the Bulls? Cro-Magnon -- what a species!
posted by Modest House at 4:45 PM on September 6, 2017
posted by Modest House at 4:45 PM on September 6, 2017
My vocabulary words for the day: therianthropic, tectiform, cupule, mobiliary
posted by XMLicious at 4:45 AM on September 7, 2017
posted by XMLicious at 4:45 AM on September 7, 2017
In other prehistoric news:
Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europeposted by XMLicious at 4:50 AM on September 7, 2017
These early humans were using tar to make tools long before Homo sapiens did.
Chauvet still stuns me, the art is so gorgeous and the fact that the tradition seems to have continued for something like 20,000 years, going by the dating of it and later cave art in the same region. It's hard to imagine culture existing across that depth of time.
posted by tavella at 11:00 AM on September 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by tavella at 11:00 AM on September 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Not to be that guy, but I have a tattoo of a painting from Chauvet. I'm a fan.
posted by stet at 5:04 PM on September 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by stet at 5:04 PM on September 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
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