Look at Cave Art In Ancient France
Cave art is drawn directly onto the cave walls. Caves protect the art from wind, rain, and natural erosion. That is why we can still see it. Some of the animals are simply outlined in black and others are filled in with bright earth colors, found in nearby rocks and minerals. The first men to document the art had a hard task getting to it. They had to climb on their hands and knees to enter some caverns. The cave floors were uneven and slippery and the spaces were very tight. The animals shown below are painted on the ceiling of a cavern. There are many caverns in the cave at Lascaux. The photograph below shows one section of a long area that is full of bulls, horses, and deer.
Can you find a red horse with a black neck and head? The line extending from the head is really the back of a bull. Can you see the outline of a bull with long horns?
Do the animals seem to be standing or running?
Black horses prance along the bottom of the group. What do you notice about the size of the animals? Find the small red deer with large antlers painted below the nose of the bull.
Great Hall of the Bulls, reconstruction of Paleolithic rock paintings, Lascaux caves, France Photo Credit: Gianni Dagli Orti / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY Musee des Antiquites St Germain en Laye
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