The Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs is a testiment to the artistic connection that the human race shares no matter what the era. What amazes me most about this cave painting is that it looks like it could have been done in more recent times by a reputable artist using charcoal. When I think of the kind of people that lived during 30,000-28,000 BCE I generally think of them as totally primitive with no real sense of art or appreciation of it. The beauty in this painting evokes a truer sense of what the artist must have seen in everyday life and how he
/she not only appreciated, but comprehended the true beauty of what he/she was privy to. I am a huge animal lover and have had the privilege of working on a ranch. There I was able to learn about and take in the beauty of such an intelligent and magnificent animal. Although today it would be a pretty impossible occurance to see rhinos and wild horses frolicking together anywhere, it is unreal to think that once animals live completely free. Since the animals depicted in cave paintings were not the ones used for food sources I can believe that the people then must have known and understood that horses were and still are intelligent and useful creatures. The aestetically pleasing nature of these animals still holds true today. Motion pictures such as Sea Biscuit and National Velvet are two of my favorite movies. I have often recently been dragged to the horse races (which I still don't know how to feel about) and have very much enjoyed to athletism and speed of these animals. I think that the artist of the cave painting at Chauvet was as inspired by the beauty of the horse as I am. The fact that art can speak to people similarly through any span of time absolutely blows my mind.
/she not only appreciated, but comprehended the true beauty of what he/she was privy to. I am a huge animal lover and have had the privilege of working on a ranch. There I was able to learn about and take in the beauty of such an intelligent and magnificent animal. Although today it would be a pretty impossible occurance to see rhinos and wild horses frolicking together anywhere, it is unreal to think that once animals live completely free. Since the animals depicted in cave paintings were not the ones used for food sources I can believe that the people then must have known and understood that horses were and still are intelligent and useful creatures. The aestetically pleasing nature of these animals still holds true today. Motion pictures such as Sea Biscuit and National Velvet are two of my favorite movies. I have often recently been dragged to the horse races (which I still don't know how to feel about) and have very much enjoyed to athletism and speed of these animals. I think that the artist of the cave painting at Chauvet was as inspired by the beauty of the horse as I am. The fact that art can speak to people similarly through any span of time absolutely blows my mind.
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erika- eloquently stated ...yes, the beaut, dynamism and intensity of the animals is so amazingly evoked in these cave paintings that it really should force us to reconsider how simple we believed pre-historic man to be...
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