Also called Paleolithic Art

(from the Greek for “old stone”)

Cave ArtCirca 30,000-15,000 BC or BCE

Cave Art

• Found primarily in European Caves, but also in Africa and the Americas

• The animals are naturalistically and beautifully drawn

• They include bears…

Cave Art

• Horses• Lions• Mammoths• Bison• Deer• Ibexes• Humans are rarely

included and, if so, are drawn like stick figures.

• Many animals are overlapped and painted over which shows MOVEMENT and RHYTHM

• Ground pigments were used from natural resources, stones and dirt.

• They were mixed with water, saliva or animal fats to make paint.

• Some were blown directly on the wall through reeds or hollowed-out bones

Cave Art

• Check out the following web sites…Google:

• Chauvet and Lascaux Caves in France,

• The San of South Africa

• The Pachamachay

in Peru