"If I can do it, it's not art."
Thanks to FReeper Viiksitimali for the article.
GGG Ping.
and we are rather different because of it...as should be painfully clear to anyone but the most obtuse
I support Michael Berry for President!
absolutely....we may be blended with the late out of Africa tribes...but Europeans are Neanderthals and Asians contain other Homo Erectus genes....
but it is politically incorrect to say so...
Not exactly, The Caves of Altamira, but still a good excuse to post some Steely Dan:
I recall when I was small
How I spent my days alone
The busy world was not for me
So I went and found my own
I would climb the garden wall
With a candle in my hand
I’d hide inside a hall of rock and sand
On the stone an ancient hand
In a faded yellow-green
Made alive a worldly wonder
Often told but never seen
Now and ever bound to labor
On the sea and in the sky
Every man and beast appeared
A friend as real as I
CHORUS:
Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall
When there wasn’t even any Hollywood
They heard the call
And they wrote it on the wall
For you and me we understood
Can it be this sad design
Could be the very same
A wooly man without a face
And a beast without a name
Nothin’ here but history
Can you see what has been done
Memory rush over me
Now I step into the sun
More seriously, I'm surprised that anything survived in a cave with that many stalactites. Those are a sign that water is leaking into the cave and moisture isn't good for artwork.
Sure those are Seals and not Cee Lo...?
"If I can do it, it's not art."
Just great. A monkey man from 42,000 years ago could draw better than me. :-/
DNA helicies
Uuh, it's me the resident FR skeptic.
I thought these stalactites or stalagmites (I always forget which type hangs down.) were formed over long periods of time by water with with dissolved CaCO3 dripping into caves and essentially forming icicle-like these things. That means that they start off thin and grow thicker as additional water drips down the outside of the icicle, evaporates, and leaves more CaCO3 on the outside of the growing icicle. This means that whatever was painted on the outside, supposedly long ago, should be covered up now by more CaCO3 deposited in the interim. No?
ML/NJ
I drew those last week!
GrandPappy sure could paint!
Watch out for the Seventh Seal!
How can they be sure they are depictions of seals, and not chicken-fried steaks?
However, the authenticity of this find came into question when one of the drawings appeared to depict a seal balancing a beach ball on its nose.
LASCAUX
shaman feeds the fire with angelica root and chant
'becomes animal spirit and shadowdances the moon
unnatural noises escape into an otherwise quiet night
the clan is caught in his web of magic song
they enter the trance of his altered state
the morning star showers them with healing
as they stomp evil spirits back into the dark earth
to the east the dawn sun lights the sky with slant
as once again they become mystic animals
painted on the walls of damp caves.
fish hawk
Are these stalagmites and stalagtite not active anymore seems funny to me they would be found on one of those instead of a wall.