Cave Of Forgotten Dreams Documentary Analysis

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I would look at both the paintings of cave walls and nonfigurative works by Gerhard Richter in the sense they both evoke an emotion from the viewer of the art. Whether it’s an emotion of nostalgia from cave paintings or emotions of satisfaction from looking at how Richter manipulates colors to make an overall nice looking display. I believe that is one of the most powerful things that can come from paintings is the ability to see a work of art and have a certain emotion come out of you whether the artist was trying to do that or not.

In the documentary about Gerhard Richter, Richter spends a lot of time manipulating the paint on the canvas until it looks good to him. Even when he already was finished with a piece of art he decided to scrap it and start over after he saw it on the wall and wasn’t …show more content…

14). This agrees with the point that paintings are to evoke emotions even if it’s to get viewers in the “mood” to do work or be ready to pay homage to their religious figures. This can be backed up from the documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the cave they looked at in southern France could have been a place of great importance to the people who made the cave paintings over 32,000 years ago. The stunning artworks in the cave may have been painted to evoke emotions to get people ready to pay homage to their religious figures. Even in current day, the paintings stun the people that have been able to see the cave. One archaeologist who first saw the cave was so stunned he needed time away from the cave before going back in to fully appreciate what he saw. Not all paintings have to give viewers those intense reactions but the fact that the cave artwork do only strengthens my view that the caves are in fact “paintings” because they evoke

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