CAVE ART DBQ WHY WAS PREHISTORIC CAVE ART
CAVE ART DBQ WHY WAS PREHISTORIC CAVE ART CREATED?
DOCUMENT #1 LASCAUX CAVE
Lascaux Cave #1
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DOCUMENT #2 CHAUVET CAVE
Chauvet Cave #1
Chauvet Cave #2
Chauvet Cave #3
Chauvet Cave #4
Chauvet Cave #5
Chauvet Cave #6
Chauvet Cave #7
Chauvet Cave #8
Chauvet Cave #9
DOCUMENT #3 COSQUER CAVE
Cosquer Cave #1
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DOCUMENT #4 CUSSAC CAVE
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DOCUMENT #5 READING
DOCUMENT #10 - BEHOLD THE STONE AGE by Robert Hughes in TIME February 13, 1995 Some animals have more than four legs, or grotesquely exaggerated horns; is that just style, or does it argue a state of ritual trance or hallucination in the artists? No answer, though some naturally occurring manganese oxides, the base of some of the blacks used in cave paintings, are known to be toxic and to act on the central nervous system.
DOCUMENT #10 (continued) And the main technique of Cro-Magnon art, according to prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet, director of France's National Center of Scientific Research, involved not brushes but a kind of oral spray-painting - blowing pigment dissolved in saliva on the wall. Lorblanchet, who has re-created cave paintings with uncanny accuracy, suggests that the technique may have had a spiritual dimension.
POSSIBLE OUTCOMES
Cave Art DBQ Possible Groupings 4 Types of images: dangerous animals, harmless animals, edible animals, inedible animals, land animals, sea animals, hand prints, humans, action scenes, still lifes, individual animals, groups of animals 4 Types of art: paintings, drawings, engravings, handprints
Cave Art DBQ Possible Groupings 4 Purpose: journal, education, prayer, communication 4 Theories: to get animals’ power, for art, spiritual aspect/hallucination, communal activity
Cave Art DBQ Possible Theses 4 There are many reasons why early humans did cave art, the most plausible are for spiritual motives, as a communal activity, and for art. [Spiritual – hallucination (4, 7, 10), power (2, 3, 9); Communal – 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9; Art – painting (1, 2), carving (5, 8), drawing (1, 2, 3, 6), and spray painting (4, 7, 10)]. 4 Early humans created cave art for various reasons including as a means of communication, education and spirituality. [Communication – I was here; education – beware, eat these; spirituality – power, prayer, hope]. 4 Cave art was done by early humans as a means of recording their environment, expressing their hopes; and to pass the time. [Recording – what seen, time, events; expressing – hopes, fears; passing - boredom].
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