Lascaux cave paintings

Explorons les grottes paléolithiques de Lascaux et Chauvet! Document Google pour l'activité Site Web et ressources pour l'activité...

Part of an ekphrastic, non-fiction series from author David Linebarger.

Hall of The Bulls, Lascaux Caves France. The five metre-long bulls, the graceful stags, the rutting bison, the very same prehistoric images discovered in 1940 that changed the history of art.

Today, on the 12th of September in 1940 the caves of Lascaux in the south of France near to Montignac were discovered by Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel and Simon Coencas, 4 young peo…

Australian war illustrator Ivor Hele painted jungle fighting in New Guinea during World War II. One day, three men in his unit were killed. Their bodies were left sprawled in the mud while the remaining troops scrambled to dig foxholes. Hele, who felt the tragedy must be recorded, crouched by the bodies to draw them. The soldiers watched him in grim silence. Then it began to rain. Without a word, several soldiers left the safety of their foxholes to build a makeshift shelter over Hele with…

The Bradshaw Foundation provides an online learning resource to promote the study of early humankind’s artistic achievements and to foster principles of research and of conservation. Its areas of focus are archaeology, anthropology and genetic research, with the primary objective to discover, document and preserve ancient rock art around the world.

Cave Unicorns by hibbary on DeviantArt

From: lascaux.culture.fr/ Music 'Lullaby' by Chorus of Tribes HE LASCAUX CAVES were discovered purely by chance. On 12 September 1940 four boys were…

When was art born? Have you ever thought about art in that aspect? Was the birth of art incidental or something that came about due to deliberate thought and action? We are sure that the answer to this would be difficult to come about since there have been examples of early art that is also understood to be a recording of the happenings of that time. That is why when you look at cave paintings, they not only please the senses, but also tell you a story and provide you with information of…

When was art born? Have you ever thought about art in that aspect? Was the birth of art incidental or something that came about due to deliberate thought and action? We are sure that the answer to this would be difficult to come about since there have been examples of early art that is also understood to be a recording of the happenings of that time. That is why when you look at cave paintings, they not only please the senses, but also tell you a story and provide you with information of…