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minus-squareNegativeNull@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 days agoThe amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#Paintings
minus-squareSolarMonkey@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 days agoDamn man. At least they made the art they had banging around in their skulls. Meanwhile I can’t do a thing I’ve got so much reference material for because “what if it’s not just the way I want” you dumb bitch you can fix it if it sucks holy shit. Edit: I wonder if cave painters had issues with… not properly representing their vision… their visions were… more bison shaped then, but all the same…
minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoLol, now I’m imagining 200 feet from this cave is the Cave of Initial Sketches.
minus-squareHolyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoIs this the cave where they built a full scale replica for visitors right next to the actual cave because the real cave is too sensitive to light?
minus-squaremister_flibble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoFun fact, it’s actually been theorized that overlapping cave paintings like that were essentially a rudimentary form of animation, as flickering firelight would create the illusion of movement. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ice-age-artists-may-have-used-firelight-to-animate-carvings-180979943/
The amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#Paintings
Damn man. At least they made the art they had banging around in their skulls.
Meanwhile I can’t do a thing I’ve got so much reference material for because “what if it’s not just the way I want”
you dumb bitch you can fix it if it sucks holy shit.
Edit: I wonder if cave painters had issues with… not properly representing their vision… their visions were… more bison shaped then, but all the same…
Lol, now I’m imagining 200 feet from this cave is the Cave of Initial Sketches.
Is this the cave where they built a full scale replica for visitors right next to the actual cave because the real cave is too sensitive to light?
Fun fact, it’s actually been theorized that overlapping cave paintings like that were essentially a rudimentary form of animation, as flickering firelight would create the illusion of movement.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ice-age-artists-may-have-used-firelight-to-animate-carvings-180979943/