Friday, 12 August 2011

Chapter 3:Lascaux(Halls of Bulls)

Description(Wikipedia, July 2011)


Halls of Bulls, was one of the famous cave wall painting found near Lascaux, France. This painting was founded in 1940. Even though during that time, the painting technology was not good enough, but with this painting shown, we can see that the men during that era do have artistic intention. They do know how to use the natural rock colour and texture of the wall to create a painting such fantastic. In this painting, we can see cows, deers, bisons, men and other small creatures. Many has interpret the painting as the activities going on during that time, the men that era try to record down their daily activities of hunting. This cave with painting in it was opened to the public in 1948 which was after world war II. However, it was then closed in 1963 to preserve this marvellous art from getting more damages from the publicity.



IMO
In My Opinion, the men during that time drew these paintings to symbolise what they had done in their daily life and these paintings act as the dairy we nowadays use to record what we do for our daily life. This may be a good way to pass down the history event to the coming generations and a good way for us to learn from it. 

No comments:

Post a Comment