JanieDough
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The Chauvet caves contain sketches around 20,000 years old, and they are BEAUTIFUL - not just scratches in stone. There's shading, movement, depth and character to the sketchings.
These caves are in France - there's a whole chain of such caves in the south of France. The one featured in the film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is one of the most spectacular. I'm sure you've heard of the Lasceaux Caves.
When I was in the south of France, we got to see one of these caves. It was a minor one, but still, there was sketchings in there thousands of years old and it was beautiful but eery at the same time.
Say what you want about science, literature, music, etc. being important to society, but ART was here from the beginning. Amazing to think about, and extremely flattering to the portion of the human race that devotes any portion of their lives to further the arts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFP5HfJPTY
These caves are in France - there's a whole chain of such caves in the south of France. The one featured in the film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is one of the most spectacular. I'm sure you've heard of the Lasceaux Caves.
When I was in the south of France, we got to see one of these caves. It was a minor one, but still, there was sketchings in there thousands of years old and it was beautiful but eery at the same time.
Say what you want about science, literature, music, etc. being important to society, but ART was here from the beginning. Amazing to think about, and extremely flattering to the portion of the human race that devotes any portion of their lives to further the arts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFP5HfJPTY
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