Altamira Prehistoric Bison at rest Digital Art by Weston Westmoreland

Altamira Prehistoric Bison at rest

by Weston Westmoreland

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Title

Altamira Prehistoric Bison at rest

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting

Description

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 "bisontes encogidos" 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 breathtaking. How it would be to see these images as they were meant to be seen, under firelight, with all those elegant mammals alive in the flickering flame... I wish I could.

We do not know what our ancestors painted for. We will probably never know. It is believed they did not paint what they actually hunted. The most accepted theory is that they had some shamanic, spiritual, purpose. The paintings on the cave walls would come to life under the firelight, in some sort of mystical communion with the humans. I have tried, in a way, to represent that by adding some sense of fur to my painting through the brush-stroke: The great bison coming to life.

The paintings in Altamira date from the Magdalenian age, about 15-17,000 ybp.

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You can learn more about what drives me in my blog:

http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/

Weston Westmoreland.

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