Recent research has shown those drawinggs were not just art, but communications between groups of hunter gatherers. They showed what game was in the area.
However, I do like your use of negative space and the thematic juxtaposition of horse, bull, and antelope. The hands remain a bit dadaesque if not outright allegorical and leave the observer wanting a bit of contextual relief.
I bet there were people back then that said, "My kid could draw a better bull than that!" or "The colors are all wrong - it doesn't match the bear skin rug..."
This reminds me of good New Yorker cartoons from the mid-90s issues that my mom would leave open on the kitchen table with coffee rings on the pages. Primo 🙏
Cave artist's response: "Yeah, but first I'm gonna get SUPER DUPER FUCKED UP on happy mushrooms That way, I'll end up drawing dots on some of the bulls, because I'm seeing lots of colored dots in my vision."
If the paints I used needed a flower that blossomed for a week once a year, then took significant manual labor to produce enough paint for a hand print, yeah I'm hyping the shit out of it.
In lands where no bulls roamed the ochre paintings told many a story including do not
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If I risked life and limb to take down an animal to feed my tribe I might want to have a memento as well. Look at all the hunters taking a picture of their latest kill today. No cameras back then.
I'm ignorant on the subject, but I'm really curious how those animals looked or what specific breeds of animals they were. I'm sure there's been several bison like animals out there.
would you have rathered they painted the Sistine chapel? or of what they saw every day. this, to me, is art. taking the everyday and making it special. yes, yes it is another bull...
Then, there was that time we ate those funny mushrooms and started doing handprints and spirals. We thought they were so cool until in the morning when we woke up.
When you snowed in with the cave painting guy and not the Sun's chosen mother, whose wisdom would split the mind of even the most determined mammoth as though a thousand spears had hit the same point...
"Since the modern discovery of Paleolithic cave art in 1879, scholars have pondered its origin and significance. The remarkable paintings and etchings at Altamira, Lascaux and Chauvet and hundreds of other sites around the world prompt wonder and reflection"
Extant Me, critiquing the image of the bull: you know, the dramatic folksism and black and white contrasts echo other pieces that would tend to favor horses, belying the emotions of the artist who seems to aspire to a higher class.
seeing a drawing of a horse from 10,000 years ago on a cave wall so you draw a horse yourself might be the greatest instance of riffing on a bit in human history
I can't find it but there's instances of people drawing like a cool auroch on a cave wall and then thousands of years later some other larrikin (who was still neolithic themselves) coming along and adding a little dude riding it on top
A lot of the hand prints were smaller, Not all though, and I doubt men would have avoided it especially say at late afternoon or night time after hunting or gathering.
We like the idea of boxes but nearly everything in early society was fairly equalized.
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Lauren: Holy shit! Do we worship it?
Cave Guy:....sure?
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And your space lasers are a thing? Go eat the leftovers with the domesticated wolves
Getting tired of hand prints innit
Hey did you get that, you know, his story, hisstory, history,,, History?
Yeah, sorry, we were stupid.
#portablerockart
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(Nothing personal. Couldn't resist the straight line.)
…..and all you draw are gazelles and cows?
We like the idea of boxes but nearly everything in early society was fairly equalized.
wtf is that supposed to be? Scratch it out and start over.