The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams Analysis
In the film, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams the artists of the Chauvet paintings left behind a cave filled with beautiful paintings that can be interpreted in many ways. The paintings are able to tell how humans saw themselves compared to animals, the purpose and meaning of the cave to artists and the paintings also show how far along brain and cognitive abilities were developed compared to present time.
These drawing showed how life more than 30,000 years ago was outside the cave. During that time, animals had a bigger role in their environment than they do today, this is shown because in the drawings there was only one painting that included a human. I think people saw themselves as being almost equal to animals, they probably very well knew that animals were dangerous and powerful, which can be seen through the paintings. An example of the difference in power of the animals and the humans would be the footprint …show more content…
Most of the drawings depicted things they would see in their lives, such as the painting of the lions mating. It had much detail; the female lion was not ready to mate and so she was growling at the male lion to warn him. Through one painting, a whole scenario from years and years ago was able to come to life, the painter probably saw this and decided to tell the story in the cave. I believe the cave was a lot of individual mediations where painters would go in the cave on their own and just paint the day away, or people would go in and observe others artwork and occasionally add to the paintings. In the film it was said and seen that some of the paintings were pretty busy and had been layered on top of the original work, there was proof of this because when they scanned the artwork they found out that some of the paintings had been overlapped about five thousand years apart from each
These drawing showed how life more than 30,000 years ago was outside the cave. During that time, animals had a bigger role in their environment than they do today, this is shown because in the drawings there was only one painting that included a human. I think people saw themselves as being almost equal to animals, they probably very well knew that animals were dangerous and powerful, which can be seen through the paintings. An example of the difference in power of the animals and the humans would be the footprint …show more content…
Most of the drawings depicted things they would see in their lives, such as the painting of the lions mating. It had much detail; the female lion was not ready to mate and so she was growling at the male lion to warn him. Through one painting, a whole scenario from years and years ago was able to come to life, the painter probably saw this and decided to tell the story in the cave. I believe the cave was a lot of individual mediations where painters would go in the cave on their own and just paint the day away, or people would go in and observe others artwork and occasionally add to the paintings. In the film it was said and seen that some of the paintings were pretty busy and had been layered on top of the original work, there was proof of this because when they scanned the artwork they found out that some of the paintings had been overlapped about five thousand years apart from each