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Early Humans: Culture. Cave Art c. 15,000 BCE Chauvet & Lascaux Caves (France). Artist’s “Canvas”. People of prehistoric times were excellent big-game hunters consistently brought home food. Did not need to work very hard and had plenty of leisure time Art = FUN!
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Early Humans:Culture Cave Art c. 15,000 BCE Chauvet & Lascaux Caves (France)
Artist’s “Canvas” • People of prehistoric times were excellent big-game hunters consistently brought home food. • Did not need to work very hard and had plenty of leisure time Art = FUN! • Art during this time may have been a teaching tool for kids to learn lessons about the hunt.
Sympathetic Magic • Sympathetic Magic making an image of something gives the artist power over whatever the image represents • Drawing wounded/incomplete animals could create real wounded, dead, or weakened animals = EASY to hunt
Vision Quest • Walls & floors of caves = boundaries between this world and the spirit-world • Shaman communicates with and interprets the supernatural: • Dark, silence, isolation) • Hallucinogenic drugs • Pain (handprints on cave walls sometimes show mutilated hand prints) • Cave art = PORTAL to the supernatural world