Art History 101 Test #1

The Chauvet Cave Paintings (Paleolithic)
-France
Sometimes etched into the walls

The Cosquer Cave Paintings (Paleolithic)
-France
-120 Feet underwater
-Numerous Animals
-Negative handprints made by blowing red oaker through a reed

Altamira Cave Paintings (Spain)
-Paleolithic
-Rendered on surface that isn't flat, framed, monochromatic
-Seem to be recreations
-Red oaker blown on the walls

Pech-Merle Caves (France)
-Paleolithic
-Dots outside the contour
-1 scene or two?
-Had to be able to visualize the image, horse's head is in the natural rock contour

Lascaux Caves (France)
-Paleolithic
-Hall of Bison
- full animal is visible, some by children, relation to the hunt, like a womb, reproduction of the herd?
- Man, is he dead, sleeping?

Bison from Le Tud c-Audobert (France)
- Paleolithic
-Fascination with life and death
-made of clay, 2 ft, painted with red oaker