Chauvet Lions and Bison
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Chauvet Lions and Bison
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Lions and Bison. Chauvet Cave, France. Digital oil painting.
Detail view of the right side of the breathtaking Panel of the Lions and Rhinoceros in the End Chamber of Chauvet cave, France. The image shows a pride of cave lions stalking bison, some of which look towards the left while others look towards us. There is also a rhino and a mammoth calf on the bottom left.
To express with words the magnificence of this mural is probably an impossible task. This work goes beyond the "simple" painting of beautiful animals. The whole composition, built around a hollow on the wall like a gate to the netherworld from where a single horse stares back at us, is simply overwhelming. The lions to one side, the rhinos to the other and the bison and mammoth surrounding the opening with that solitary horse. I could spend days on end just looking.
Those paintings are over 30,000 years old and their find ended with the idea that cave painting had evolved from basic drawings to its 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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Weston Westmoreland.
肖維, 拉斯科, 阿爾塔米拉, 洞穴藝術, 野牛, 洞熊, 熊, 洞獅子, 獅子, 野牛, 鹿, 公牛, 長毛象, 馬, 牛, 犀牛, 舊石器時代的, 史前,
ショーベ, ラスコー, アルタミラ, 洞窟芸術, バイソン, 洞窟の熊, くま, 洞窟のライオン, ライオン, バイソン, 鹿, ブル, マンモス, うま, 牛, サイコロ, 古石器, 先史時代の
Шове, Ласко, Альтамира, пещерное искусство, бизон, пещерный медведь, медведь, пещерный лев, лев, бизон, олень, бык, мамонт, лошадь, корова, носорог, палеолитический, доисторический
art rupestre, bison, ours des cavernes, ours, lion des cavernes, Lion, bison, cerf, taureau, mammouth, cheval, vache, rhinocéros, paléolithique, préhistorique
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February 16th, 2022
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