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the-cricket-chirps · 7 months

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Bison From Cave Of Altamira, Santander, Spain, ca. 10,000 B.C, with artist’s interpretation.

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victusinveritas · 8 months

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Images drawn in Altamira caves around 36000-11000 BC, Spain

#cave art #paleolithic #paleoanthropology #altamira #spain

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palaeosinensis · 3 months

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I was trying this morning to distill what makes paleolithic European cave art...well cave art! And then apply it to an animal not seen in Europe. The technique was more important here than the results; I think the big bodies & smaller heads yet otherwise accurate features are a result of the artists having a sort of tunnel vision while working. As one drifts part to part lifting up the implement as little as possible the parts appear in proportion to their immediate neighbor. They are also distilled to their most important details & for the body that's a wide rectangular space. If you picture yourself working on a heavily textured wall as tall or taller than you are with the equivalent of a tea light (oil lamps) or a flickering torch you can imagine how easy it would be to get that kind of focused tunnel vision. While we see tunnel vision as a bad thing while learning art today in terms of cave art I just sort of see it as a natural consequence. You're going to focus really hard on what needs it; there are no erasers. Additional paint can't be bought at the store. Stone walls have limited access. You're going to make the best of every resource while you're there. Besides who said the animal had to be proportional anyway? You know exactly what you're looking at! Artist commentary: it was challenging deciding what was most important but also representing that important thing as accurately as possible. I feel like that's a common thread in all cave art from peoples across the world: draw what's most important. The rest will work out.

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castilestateofmind · 1 year

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“It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images [...]. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told”.

- Joseph Campbell.

*The cave of Altamira.

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archaeologs · 1 year

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Cave painting of a bison. Altamira cave main gallery. Magdalenian parietal art c.15,000 BCE. Photo by P. Saura.

Learn more / Daha fazlası https://www.archaeologs.com/w/parietal/

#archaeologs #archaeology #archaeological #dictionary #history #altamira #cave paintings #magdalenian parietal art #bison #cave art #cave painting #art #historical #arkeoloji #tarih #sanat #mağara resimleri

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taffetastrology · 11 months

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The signs as Finding Altamira costumes

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

#the signs as #zodiac aesthetic #astrology #horoscope #altamira #finding altamira #golshifteh farahani

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bulkbinbox · 1 year

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altamira, pará, 2013. foto: lalo de almeida.

#lalo de almeida #pará #altamira

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carloskaplan · 3 months

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Bisonte de Altamira

#prehistoria #altamira

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metmarfilart · 1 year

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Reflejos de Caracas

#caracas #venezuela #altamira #los ilustres

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massabios · 10 months

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La cueva de Altamira es considera como la «Capilla Sixtina» del arte rupestre. Patrimonio Mundial de la Unesco desde 1985, la cueva de Altamira se encuentra situada en la localidad de Santillana del Mar, a 30 km de Santander, España.

Sus pinturas rupestres, de hace más de 15.000 años, representan bisontes, caballos y diversos animales, realizadas con ocre, carbón y hematites. El yacimiento permaneció desconocido durante mucho tiempo porque un corrimiento de tierras tapió la entrada y fue descubierto en 1868.

La cueva fue utilizada durante varios periodos, sumando 22.000 años de ocupación, desde hace unos 36.500 hasta hace 13.000 años, cuando la entrada principal de la cueva quedó sellada por un derrumbe, todos dentro del Paleolítico superior.

En la actualidad la cueva es visitable.

#altamira #cuevadealtamira #arte #curiosidades

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beautiful-things-things · 9 months

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The Altamira oriole (Icterus gularis) is a New World oriole. The bird is widespread in subtropical lowlands of the Mexican Gulf Coast and northern Central America, the Pacific coast and inland. They have since spread to southern Texas, but this was not until 1939.

#oriole #beautiful birds #oriole birds #altamira #beautiful #beautiful things #beauty #nature #bird lovers #bird photography #birdwatching #bird pics

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the-cricket-chirps · 7 months

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