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Article Title: The Chauvet Cave's Hyperreal Wonders, Replicated
Article Author: Alissa J. Rubin
Date Published: April 24, 2015
Click Here to Read This Article:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/arts/design/the-chauvet-caves-hyperreal-wonders-replicated.html?_r=3
Summary: A cave has been rediscovered in Chauvet Cave, France that contains some of the first pictorial art, with close details of the surface and structure of several animals such as: horses, owls, rhinos, lions, bears, etc. Another such cave was found in Altamira, Spain; each of these caves was originally open to the public but do to the damage to the artistic representations due to the carbon dioxide from the exhales of thousands of visitors each year, both were closed off to the public after several years. Replicas have been created for public viewing to come as close as possible to giving off the same euphoria felt in the cave and visits to the actual cave sites are rare and limited to preserve their detail.
Personal opinion: I personally perceived the article as exploring the possible root of some French art and as an influence on it. It also invoked an overall feeling of curiosity and discovery as I was reading it and challenged me to want to educate myself more on the subject and to want to one day be fortunate enough to visit the original caves themselves. And like everyone else who has had the chance to visit the caves or replicas themselves, I too would like to know who created these paintings and also, what might have been the relationship between prehistoric humans and the animals of that time period?
Analysis: This cave is said to be of the limited collective that impacted Picasso himself and consequentially influenced his French art. It's impossible to know how many other French artists were influenced my the drawings in this cave as it was assimilated into French culture. The rediscovery of this cave could mark a new era for current artists in France and throughout the world and maybe change the way French art is approached.
Article Author: Alissa J. Rubin
Date Published: April 24, 2015
Click Here to Read This Article:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/arts/design/the-chauvet-caves-hyperreal-wonders-replicated.html?_r=3
Summary: A cave has been rediscovered in Chauvet Cave, France that contains some of the first pictorial art, with close details of the surface and structure of several animals such as: horses, owls, rhinos, lions, bears, etc. Another such cave was found in Altamira, Spain; each of these caves was originally open to the public but do to the damage to the artistic representations due to the carbon dioxide from the exhales of thousands of visitors each year, both were closed off to the public after several years. Replicas have been created for public viewing to come as close as possible to giving off the same euphoria felt in the cave and visits to the actual cave sites are rare and limited to preserve their detail.
Personal opinion: I personally perceived the article as exploring the possible root of some French art and as an influence on it. It also invoked an overall feeling of curiosity and discovery as I was reading it and challenged me to want to educate myself more on the subject and to want to one day be fortunate enough to visit the original caves themselves. And like everyone else who has had the chance to visit the caves or replicas themselves, I too would like to know who created these paintings and also, what might have been the relationship between prehistoric humans and the animals of that time period?
Analysis: This cave is said to be of the limited collective that impacted Picasso himself and consequentially influenced his French art. It's impossible to know how many other French artists were influenced my the drawings in this cave as it was assimilated into French culture. The rediscovery of this cave could mark a new era for current artists in France and throughout the world and maybe change the way French art is approached.