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Vallon Pont D'arc Pont D'arc Cave
415 wordsAt the foot of a cliff in the Apache Gorges, in south-eastern France, amateur speleologists discovered the world's oldest painted prehistoric cave. Discovered on December 18, 1994, this cave features art that dates back thirty-one thousand years. Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Christian Hilaire, were the amateurs who discovered the cave that has come to be known simply as the Chauvet cave. The explorers were in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France some thirty feet below ground. While expl...
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Cave Paintings Early Man
1,198 wordsPrimitive Man and Civilized Man are Alike in Many Areas An Analogy Early civilizations are credited with introducing government, art, and religion, among other things to the modern world. Does the credit actually belong to the people who created these early civilizations or to those that came before? The final product may be considered greater and certainly more polished than the product created by early man. All things found in an ancient civilization were actually brought to them by the collec...
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Cave Paintings Oral Communication
427 wordsKristine McCarthy October 1, 2000 I think Watches formed a very good, accurate arguement in saying that cave paintings are cinematic. Much like movies, when cave paintings are seen in a certain way they show qualities that can be seen as cinematic. Once you look at cave paintings under a firelight things are seen much differently. They seem to move, disappear, reader, and even change shape and color, just like a movie. When seen in this light these paintings no longer seem to be scribbled and di...
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Full Of Life Cave Paintings
1,670 wordsChris Ofili Chris Ofili is an interesting contemporary artist. He was born in Manchester in 1968. He studied in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1988 - 1991) and later he entered the Royal College of Art (1999 - 1993). Chris Ofili is an English painter, who has a Nigerian descent. No wonder all his work reflect his African background. In 1992 he won the scholarship, which gave him the possibility to travel to Zimbabwe. Chris Ofili's style is highly influenced by his Nigerian origin as well a...
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Thousands Of Years Cave Paintings
1,106 wordsPrehistoric Art and Art of the Ancient Near East When you look at art that spans many thousands of years you are bound to see distinct differences. This is taken for granted given the art was created during different eras and during different civilizations. What may not be as obvious, are the similarities that these historic artifacts have in common with one another. Lets start by looking at, and comparing, the architectural features of Stonehenge, the Anu Ziggurat and White Temple at Uruk, and ...
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