BILINGUAL STREAM PROJECTS
1B
IES SANCHEZ LASTRA
MIERES - ASTURIAS
Cave Painting & Rock Art
No one knows why Cro-Magnon man painted marvelous and
astonishing paintings on rock walls, deep within caves.
Paintings were
added, until a cave might have hundreds...
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BILINGUAL STREAM PROJECTS
1B
IES SANCHEZ LASTRA
MIERES - ASTURIAS
Cave Painting & Rock Art
No one knows why Cro-Magnon man painted marvelous and
astonishing paintings on rock walls, deep within caves.
Paintings were
added, until a cave might have hundreds of different paintings, by
many different painters.
Most cave paintings focused on hunters and
animals.
COLOR: Early man used natural colors.
You may have heard that
they used charcoal to create these paintings.
Actually, most art was
not made with charcoal, but rather with mineral pigments, such as iron
oxide (red ochre) or black manganese.
They drew stick figures for people, but the animals were well drawn,
and usually filled in with natural colors, to give them even more shape
and substance.
DANGER: When you think cave, you might think of a big place, with
high ceilings.
Not so.
In order to reach the places where cave paintings have been
found, Cro-Magnon man had to crawl on his belly, through mazes of
narrow, dark tunnels
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