Prehistoric Art

Here is a photo of a bison painted on the walls of the Lascaux Caves located in France.

I found the unit of Prehistoric Art to be quite interesting to my surprise. What really shocked me was my ability to actually draw something and not have it look like a train wreck. Even if a peice of art doesn't look spectacular, it really doesn't matter. I was just really proud that I could draw my little gray elephant that's on display for the whole school to see. After learning where art pretty much originated and how paint and techniques were developed, it made me realize that those concepts are still used today, just modernized. I really like the peice that we made with our homemade paint. Even though it was only jello and some spices, it turned out so pretty and I was so surprised to how much I'm starting to love art. This week during class, I learned that the aspects and background of Prehistoric Art are really the back bone of today's methods and patterns. Between looking at the caves at Lascaux and of those at Chauvet, they all had one thing in common: simplicity. But just because they were simple doesn't mean they weren't so magnificently created. The way they showed movement by drawing that echo effect or the way they captured lighting by shading, all showed such an advancement in their society and in the art world.

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