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The amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#Paintings

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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.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ice-age-artists-may-have-used-firelight-to-animate-carvings-180979943/

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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?”

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Look for a documentary called “Cave Of Forgotten Dreams” by Werner Herzog, about this cave.

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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…

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Lol, now I’m imagining 200 feet from this cave is the Cave of Initial Sketches.

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I wonder if they did a lot of drawings in dirt to get practice.

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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?

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Yes, this is that one.

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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

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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.

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“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

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looks like we had a big cavemen artist in there actually

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And then you look at paintings from the Middle Ages and wonder how people evolved backwards

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that you are, Unga Bunga the 3rd. That you are…

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Looks like it was done using the spline tool.

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so reticulated

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I’m assuming that’s because they were using the curvature of their thumb.

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what is an arm but a series of compasses?

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Kinematics be like:

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I think it looks like it was painted with a thump, I was staring at it in amazement for a couple of minutes

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The uhhhhhhhhhhhh

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It’s the same picture.

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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

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We can only truly judge your work in 10-20,000 years.

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