Cosquer Penguin
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Cosquer Penguin
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting
Description
Great Auk, Cosquer cave, France. Digital oil painting.
Detail of one of the three great auks painted on the walls of the underwater cave of Cosquer, France.
This is probably one of the most unexpected cave paintings ever found and that in one of the most unexpected places.
There are three painted great auks in Cosquer cave, the only ones ever found so far, and we are lucky to have found them. During the last glacial period, the Mediterranean shore was several miles south of the cave, the sea level about 330 ft below the entrance. Today, this same entrance is 90 ft under the sea and the cave, discovered in 1985 by diver Henri Cosquer and named after him, can only be accessed scuba diving through a 575 ft long tunnel that has already claimed more than one life.
At the end of this tunnel, which runs slightly upwards, the chamber formed a big bubble. Most of the paintings have been destroyed by the sea water, but many have been preserved in that bubble. These include Gravettian (27K YBP) hand stencils and other motifs, and Solutrean (19K YBP) signs and animals. The latter represent both usual creatures as bison, ibex, and horses, and also marine animals such as seals, jellyfish and the three penguins believed to be great auks (which though similar in shape, actually happen not to be penguins).
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June 29th, 2017
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