Early Humans
What role does lighting play in the caves? How might these paintings have been used by primitive man? What are the two techniques that the early artists used to paint on the walls of the cave? Why do you think they painted with these images?
They used fire as their light to light up the caves, the lighting was crucial to help progress and make a story. "Geneste believes that early artists used this small area of light as a story-telling device. “It is very important: the presence of the darkness, the spot of yellow light, and inside it one, two, three animals, no more,” Geneste says. “That’s a tool in a narrative structure,” he explains." The two techniques used were juxtaposition of successive images and the second is called superimposition. Rather than appearing in sequence, variations of an image pile on top of one another in superimposition to lend a sense of motion. I think they painted with horses and deer images to show the infinite travel that they would do, and show their journey's, it's never ending.
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