AR6_SA_U2_L6_LC Introduction and Objective As we said before, Niaux Cave was discovered in the late 1800s and was a result of glacial melting millions of years ago. It encompasses a number of distinct chambers connected by a winding passageway. The artwork is some of the most vivid and distinctive rock art in the world. For first 400 meters or so after entering the cave, there is no rock art whatsoever. It finally appears in the form of abstract signs. They are grouped together like landmarks or navigation aids. Some seem deliberately placed next to a fissure or other feature. Overall, the Niaux Cave is an excellent example of prehistoric cave art. Let’s learn a little more about this art and it’s amazing features. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux,_replica_05.JPG> …show more content…
But, how were they made, exactly? Well, Niaux’s wall paintings have many indicative features. They are outlined in black or red pigment—a style typical of the Magdalenian era. The “paint” used had three main ingredients: a color pigment, either red-ochre/hematite (iron oxide), or black manganese dioxide or charcoal; a binder, such as animal fat; and an extender, like biotite and feldspar, or ground quartz and calcium phosphate (from crushed, heated animal bones). To apply the paint, Magdalenian artists used their fingers or brushes made from different animal hair, moss, or vegetable fibers. Sometimes, charcoal was used for preliminary sketching purposes in preparation for the final painting or drawing. An array of animals are represented: bison, horse, ibex, deer, and even a weasel. There are also symbols—dots, lines, and squiggles—painted in black, red, and brown. Much of the paintings’ beauty and appeal lies in their simplicity and economy of line. AR6_SA_2_6_ACT_3
The colors used in the painting are dark and some parts bright illustrating a focal point being the skull in the center as well as the quill, both surrounded by darker colors in comparison.
Both Mystery and Niagara Cave are made of limestone. Limestone is formed when areas that used to be covered with water, would have contained shelled animals and other organisms. When the animals died, their bodies along with waste matter from other organisms, floated down to the bottom of the water. Over time, it was compressed and formed limestone. Caves are usually made of limestone because it is easily carved out by water. This is the case for Mystery and Niagara
This study is focus on the 11th Unnamed Cave in Tennessee. This cave was the first of its kind because this cave is the only one that was found to contain pictograph, petroglyph, and mud glyph all in one site. The article explain that the site is significant because there are evidence to showed that the site underwent a series of diverse but interrelated uses. The first out of all the cave sites to contain all three different form of rock art. Also, because the site was found in the eighteenth century which had some form of documentations on the uses of the cave. The authors believes that since the cave showed many different kind of activities, it is possible that the activities reflect a complex behaviors more elaborated and sacred than all of the other sites.
This cave is a stable and Jesus was born in a stable. This is the place where the messiahs saw daylight for the very first time in his life. The houses in the background are probably part of Bethlehem.
The painting shows Mary, Mary Magdalen and John embracing Jesus’s dead body while they are crying, and focuses on their emotional distress of losing someone dear. Mary is caught middle of letting out a great cry while embracing Jesus from the left. John is shown with curly brown hair while also letting out a cry, but he is behind Jesus and only his face is visible. Mary Magdalen is to the right holding onto one of Jesus arm that reaches over the edge that almost seems like it is coming out of the painting. The whole scene in the painting is very grim as Jesus, the central figure, is lying dead with scars of his mistreatment clear for everybody to see. His body is white and thin with veins of arms and body showing through the skin, and his face seems so tired and worn out. On his head, there is a crown of thorns, but without any blood or scars. The emotional distress in the faces of those around Jesus are stylized, but any viewer would recognize their
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
The Chauvet Cave Paintings: The Oldest Known Cave Art on Earth. Anthropology and History. April 15th 2011.
Not too far away from the town of Montignac, in the western Massif Central and Northern Pyrenees, the cave of Lascaux was discovered. Four teenage boys and their dog discovered it. The four boys, Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel and Simon Coenccus, were out on an expedition, but they found more than they bargained for that day. Their dog wandered away and they searched for him. In the process, the four boys discovered a cave that had been right below their feet for the past 17,000 years. They were not able to venture down into the 250-meter deep cave on the first day so they came back the next day prepared to enter the cave. When the boys first wiggled their way down into the cave they did not find anything. It was not until they reached an oval room that they first discovered paintings on the walls. These boys had uncovered paintings dating back to the Aurignacian (30,000-18,000 B.C.E.) (Laming, 34-41) and Magdalenian (15,000-10,000 B.C.E.) periods. It is believed that many of the paintings found in Lascaux were created between 16,000 and 14,000 B.C.E. The boys could no longer keep this cave a secret, so they told one of their teachers, Monsieur Laval. After accompanying the boys down to the cave, M. Laval started alerting historians to this new discovery. Within five days three historians were already on their way to visit the site. On September 17, 1940 three experts on Paleolithic art, Abbé Breuil, Dr. Cheynier and Abbé Bouyssonnie, crawled down into the cave; it was at this point the cave became authenticated.
Clottes, Jean. “Paleolithic Cave Art in France.” Bradshaw Foundation. Bradshaw Foundation. n.d. Web. 08 Mar. 2014.
As a preface for the tragedy, the crime committed by Tantalus should be staged first. The killing of Pelops by Tantalus, his father, serving him to the gods will be the beginning of Niobe’s tragedy. After these events, Niobe becomes unusually fixated with being a mother. After having 12 children, seven daughters and 7 sons, she swears to the gods that she’ll never hurt her children as her father attempted with his own; and that she wants to dedicate her life to become the best mother to exist ever. Niobe is having a recurrent dream with a spider, which is in fact weaving a net around her; she goes to the Oracle to find out the significance of the dream. As a response, the Oracle tells her that the spider represents her obsession with her children, whom are not part of the gods’ realm and hence should be subjects of adoration. The spider really represents Arachnae and her fate after challenging Athena. Niobe doesn’t understand the Oracle and feels that even the gods are jealous of her fortune. During a celebration in Leto’s honor, she claimed that she deserved more worship than Leto as she was the daughter of a god, a queen as had seven times more offspring than Leto. She even dismissed the celebration; the worshippers leave.
The cavern is personified as a yawning mouth. This makes sense because the cave is a large, gaping hole similar to a wide open mouth.
In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and the song “The Cave,” by Mumford and Sons, they both treat the metaphor of a cave as a dark, bad, and evil antagonist that restricts you from seeing the truth and reaching your full potential. The cave can be seen as a permanent chain or an opportunity for change.
My understanding of the cave allegory is someone who has lived his life in confinement; the only life he has ever known. Isolated from the outside world, everything that he experiences is a false reality. He sees things projected on the wall and he thinks they are real, when in fact, they are illusions. Once he is torn away from his environment, he is frightened of what he is now experiencing. As his senses awaken, he begins to see and experience the beauty all around him. He now realizes that this is how life is truly meant to live and he must go back and share his discovery with the others. However, they are not eager to leave their familiar surroundings. Upon returning to the cave, he has a hard time adjusting to his previous environment, He now knows all that he previously thought was
To begin, Plato’s Allegory of the cave is a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon and its main purpose, as Plato states is to, “show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.”(Plato) The dialogue includes a group of prisoners who are captive in a cave and chained down, only with the ability to stare straight at a wall. This wall, with the help of a fire, walkway, and people carrying different artifacts and making sounds, create a shadow and false perception of what is real. This concept here is one of the fundamental issues that Plato brings up in the reading. “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.” (Plato). These prisoners, being stuck in this cave their entire life have no other option but to believe what they see on the wall to be true. If they were to experience a real representation of the outside world they would find it implausible and hard to understand. “When any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up a...
Rock art and cave art represents knowledge of the dreaming, law and environment. Symbolic representation of spirits, man, women, child, animal, energetic concentric circles, camps and food are all commonly depicted in rock art. Rock art also serves as timeline as distinctions of art such as x-ray, hatchwork, poker work, papunya tula, encoding, engraving and yam style. It is acknowledged that rock art sites represent knowledge systems such as sacred sites, men’s sites, women’s sites, children’s sites and teaching sites. Teaching sites such as rock platforms were spirits, people and animals are engraved or encoded on a large flat rock plateau are a classroom. The fatter or bigger the spirit the more knowledge. Men’s sites as The Hands Cave at Mount Yengo has stenciled ochre hands. Some stencils just the hand, others the hand and wrist and fewer the hand and forearm. This was symbolic of Aboriginal Knowledge. A hand was a set amount of knowledge of a boy, a hand and a wrist would represent a mature knowledge of a man, while hand and forearm would represent a higher or sacred knowledge of an Elder. Sites are now preserved and the larger collections such as Kakadu Ubirr, Uluru, Kimberleys are major tourist attractions. Site are maintained by Traditional Owners and Custodians, some are repainted every decade and some remain sacred and not accessible to the public. (Pascoe,