Chauvet Lions and Rhinos Extended

Main Panel of Lions and Rhinoceros. Chauvet Cave, France. Extended version. Digital oil painting.... more

by Weston Westmoreland

Title

Chauvet Lions and Rhinos Extended

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting

Description

Main Panel of Lions and Rhinoceros. Chauvet Cave, France. Extended version. Digital oil painting.

Panoramic view of the breathtaking Panels of the Lions and Rhinoceros in the End Chamber of Chauvet cave, France. To express with words the magnificence of this mural is probably an impossible task. This work goes beyond the "simple" painting of beautiful animals. The whole composition, built around a hollow on the wall like a gate to the netherworld from where a single horse stares back at us, is simply overwhelming. The lions to one side, the rhinos to the other and the bison and mammoth surrounding the opening with that solitary horse. I could spend days on end just looking.

Those paintings are over 30,000 years old and their find ended with the idea that cave painting had evolved from basic drawings to its peak in the Magdalenian era, some 15,000 years ago,as seen in Altamira, Lascaux, Niaux or Ekain.

The paintings in Chauvet are for the most part monochrome and feature many different and unusual animals, like lions, hyenas, panthers, bears, and some more usual like horses, aurochs, rhinoceros or mammoth, all of them of extraordinary artistry.


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Weston Westmoreland.




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March 6th, 2018