Chauvet Cave Bear 3 Metal Print

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Red bear, Chauvet Cave, France. Digital oil painting

Detail of one of the two complete cave Bears by the Brunel Chamber of Chauvet cave, France. The head of a second complete bear shows on the top right, and the head of a third one was
started on the bottom left. The painting was drawn with red ocher. It never ceases to amaze me the way these people could depict animals so accurately using just a few strokes.

The Paintings in Chauvet are in many cases over 30,000 years old and their discovery ended with the idea that cave painting had evolved from basic drawings to its technical peak in the Magdalenian era, some 15,000 years ago, as seen in Altamira, Lascaux, Niaux or Ekain.

The paintings in Chauvet are for the most part monochrome and feature many different and unusual animals, like lions, hyenas, panthers, bears, and some more usual like horses, aurochs, rhinoceros or mammoth, all of them of extraordinary artistry.


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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.