Chauvet Cave lions courting

by Weston Westmoreland

Title

Chauvet Cave lions courting

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting

Description

A Cave Lion love story. Chauvet Cave, 30,000 BP.

A lioness nuzzles her partner in which probably is the oldest courtship image ever found.

This scene, depicted with a masterful economy of traces, shows the lioness angling her head towards the male and rubbing, or having just rubbed, against his neck. We can see her head is at anangle because of the position of the ears. The lion, in the meantime, stares ahead stoically.

The artist probably used the shape of the cave wall to simulate the lioness' thigh and the lion's hip. There is a red line following the lion's contour and joining the black line in the ear which might represent movement. The double line on the male lion's neck could suggest the feline stretching his neck in a mating call. Using double images to depict movement is usual.

Once again, an amazing painting, full of insight, life and movement. And that's not all, this painting helped us determine male cave lions had no mane as their current descendants do. We can in fact tell the lion at the back is a male because the artist represented the scrotum. And the mane is not there. As you can see, they did share the tuft at the end of the tail, though. That's how we know.

There is an uncorresponded lion love scene near this one in which the lion gets close and the lioness bares her fangs. This one we se might be the second secquence of our love story...

Unfortunately, the painting has not endured the passs of time unscathed. After the artist finished, cave bears sharpened their claws on the wall and erased part of the drawing by rubbing themselves against the wall. Besides, at least a second artist engraved two mammoths on top of our couple. However, the impact of the image remains intact.

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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http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com

Weston Westmoreland.




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November 16th, 2018

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