Cave paintings are the type of paintings that are
painted on walls of a cave and any rock. Cave paintings belong
to the category of pre-historic art ascribed to Paleolithic
age. Cave paintings were made some forty thousand years ago.
Mostly, human beings, flowers, animals have been seen in the
cave paintings discovered so far.
The period or era to which any cave painting found, can be
established by the method of radiocarbon dating. Infact, two
types of cave paintings have been discovered, painting that
is carved on the stone and the other that is painted on the
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Integral cave paintings are very rarely found in the world. Cave
paintings are generally graphic illustration in appearance
as human beings of the ancient age hardly knew appropriate
form of painting. Some of the recognized cave paintings that
have been discovered around the globe are cave paintings of
Astuvansalmi in Finland, Ajanta and Ellora in Maharashtra;
India, Creswell Crags in England, Messak Settafet and Tadrart
in Libya, Lascaux in France, Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg in South
Africa and Cosquer Cave near Marseille in France.
In India, a place called Bhimbetka,
45 Km from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh; over 500 cave paintings
have been found.
In some of the cave paintings also prove that human
beings in that pre-historic period also participated
in religious ceremonies.
Cave paintings in the pre-historic period formed the
medium of expression for the human beings and are also
the invaluable source of information about the world
at that time.
Cave paintings were made from burnt wood in black
color or from soil pigment in the form of a fluid.
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When the fluid used got dried into a layer it got stuck up
on to the facade of the cave painting and hence an image or
drawing was formed. Colors used in cave paintings had a base
of limestone or carbon.
The figures in the early cave paintings look like a combination
of different geometrical shapes. In pre-historic Age, human
beings were not having proper drawing tools so they used hands,
feathers, wood, etc. for their paintings. |
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