Chauvet Venus and Sorcerer

by Weston Westmoreland

Title

Chauvet Venus and Sorcerer

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting

Description

Chauvet Venus and Sorcerer. Digital oil painting.

One of the most uncanny cave paintings ever found.

The Salle du Fond, the deepest chamber in Chauvet Cave, keeps some disturbing treasures besides the cave lions, horses and rhinos. From the ceiling of the chamber, which is nearly 20ft high, a vertical cone of limestone hangs down ending in a point 3ft off the floor. It is on this hanging outcrop that the Venus and the Sorcerer are drawn in black charcoal.

The Venus is absolutely classical and characteristically Aurignacian or Gravettian. The black pubic triangle of the Venus, shaded in with black pigment, seems to be the heart of the composition. The legs, with plump thighs, finish in a point with the feet not shown.

The Venus is not isolated. There is a feline higher and to the left. To the right we find the the "Sorcerer" or man-bison. The relation of the Venus to the Sorcerer cannot be fortuitous.
The Venus is the earliest of the designs. The feline on the left and the Sorcerer were added later. Their creation entailed a voluntary and selective local destruction of parts of the body of the Venus, and the voluntary absence of any superposition. Neither the Sorcerer nor the feline cut across the Venus.

It might be that the female representation relates directly to the corridor to the chamber, which opens just behind her. Four other female pubic representations can be found in the cave, each time indicating the entrance to adjacent cavities.

The Venus is thought to be Aurignacian, created in the first period of the decoration of the Chauvet Cave.

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.



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July 1st, 2018

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