TFW ancient cave paintings look more lifelike than medieval paintings.
Wanted to see how I could do in comparison. Here’s my doodle:
unironically I’m kinda proud of it. Thought I’d do worse
The amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there.
Fun fact, it’s actually been theorized that overlapping cave paintings like that were essentially a rudimentary form of animation, as flickering firelight would create the illusion of movement.
what a rollercoaster of emotions: “please just have a video- oh they do! great. oh hold on that’s a terrible video that shows absolutely nothing and just gives me a headache with its 5 frames per second, why did they even bother?”
Holy shit… that is incredible. Thank you for the insight! I never knew and am at a bit at a loss for words — just… awe
I’ve known about Chauvet cave for years, and I’m still in awe every time I see a picture of it. To think most images in this cave are around 35,000 years old. Human history (written history) is maybe 6,000 years old. This is more than 5 times older than that. Humans existed, and were creating things like this, for 30,000 years before the written word.
Pablo Picasso visited the Lascaux Cave (also in France, but much younger), and said the following:
“We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.”
― Pablo Picasso
I linked this above, but check out Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary on this cave.
“We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.”
― Pablo Picasso
That’s an almost perfect way to describe how it makes me feel — though that statement’s a little more profound than just ‘awesome’ lol
I’m absolutely going to check-out all the info you linked, and thank you. I just got off work this morning and will undoubtedly end up going through it… cause it’s still blowing my tiny little brain a bit someway. One of the coolest things I’ve learned in a while
Damn man. At least they made the art they had banging around in their skulls.
Meanwhile I can’t do a thing I’ve got so much reference material for because “what if it’s not just the way I want”
you dumb bitch you can fix it if it sucks holy shit.
Edit: I wonder if cave painters had issues with… not properly representing their vision… their visions were… more bison shaped then, but all the same…
Is this the cave where they built a full scale replica for visitors right next to the actual cave because the real cave is too sensitive to light?
He looks like he wants to steal my picnic basket…
