Altamira Prehistoric Bison at rest detail Acrylic Print

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Prehistoric Bison at rest, from Altamira, Spain. Digital painting.

Original artwork, used for the cover of the motion picture soundtrack album of the film Altamira, by Mark Knopfler and Evelyn Glennie.

The bison in Altamira are beyond any doubt amongst the most fine and exquisite paintings of the Paleolithic. It is difficult to find bison of similar delicacy in Lascaux, Chauvet or Niaux, to mention some of the most amazing caves so far discovered.

This painting of a female bison at rest was made from a carbon copy Abbott Henri Breuil drew straight off the ceiling of the cave in 1906, in order to bring to light the delicate work that unfortunately was quite deteriorated and in many parts nearly invisible.

These crouching bison, known as "bisonte encogido" were painted in this position to adapt the images to, or inspired by, the natural bulges of the ceiling, thus conferring them a magical third dimension. The effect, under electric light, is simply br...

Hi there, Born in '72 and shooting pictures since '83, I have concentrated my efforts in Cave Art and Ancient Civilizations. I also enjoy creating panoramic compositions... But not just... Here you will find landmarks, landscapes and cityscapes, ancient ruins and modern buildings, moons and seas, planes and boats, guns and flowers, animals and machines, forests and deserts, vanguard and prehistory, digital and film, color and black & white, graves and newborns, temples, trenches, palaces, castles, tanks, churches, bunkers... However, they have some things in common: they are meaningful images and they are for the most part unique. W. W.