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Did I ever post the finished Lascaux (& etc) horses here?!
This first batch of them will be available in my next shop update, but there are more getting bisque-fired tomorrow that should be going into the shop in mid-April alongside a couple more cave painting mugs :)
#artblog#pottery#ceramics#handbuiltceramics#ceramicart#ceramicsculpture#handbuilding#clay#stoneware#horse#lascaux#ancient art#lascaux cave art#cave art#cave paintings
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lascaux arcade carpet *_*
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Few more shots of the Cave Ponies going up in my Etsy shop tomorrow (3/16)!
I bought these sweet little wooden horses years ago at a craft store and finally got around to painting them recently. Their coat colors and markings are inspired by horses depicted in Paleolithic cave paintings <3
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lascaux-inspired cave painting deer
#reserved#pottery#ceramics#ceramic#ceramic art#carving#underglaze painting#timelapse#cave paintings#cave art#deer art#deer#lascaux#lascaux cave paintings
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sky spirit (I forgive you)
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a saint of self-transfiguration
#my art#artists on tumblr#traditional art#traditional media#traditional painting#mixed media painting#mixed media illustration#original character illustration#original character painting#trans rights#trans character#lascaux#dorkbait art#vampire art#vampire oc#christian imagery#wound
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My two new cave pins are finally here as well and I'm so happy with them! :D They are much thicker, sturdier and larger!
They are available here:
Stag: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1702729943/large-deer-cave-pin-lascaux-chauvet
Honse: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1688551436/large-horse-cave-pin-lascaux-chauvet
#cave art#cave#horse#honse#paleo art#prehistoric art#prehistoric#megaloceros#stag#deer#pins#artofmaquenda#maquenda#Lascaux#Cauvet#cave painting
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Megaloceros with Line of Dots, Lascaux Cave, France, c. 16000 -15000 BCE
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THE SKY IN HISTORY / THE SKY IN PREHISTORY
// Wikipedia // Julius Caesar, Shakespeare // Disco Elysium // Lascaux Cave // To My Cave-Mother, Ashton Hilliers // Midnight Visitor, Velizar Simeonovski // North Star, Dadu Shin // Art Touched, Clayshaper //
I forgot that the stars are not fixed in the sky, and when I learned that they moved and that Polaris was not always the North Star I went crazy insane and this is what came of it. It’s my first try at doing this web weaving thing.
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Was reminded (because I am kinda terrible at social media) that I ought to let people know I made an art history video about the cave art in Lascaux: How it was made; what pigments and what ingenious art tools were used (Paleolithic mouth-powered airbrushes!); and the historical development of ideas of the Paleolithic and how they were shaped by prejudices of the time.
And I bust some myths:
The cave paintings and engravings had nothing to do with hunting. The animals that people of the time hunted don't show up in the cave art.
It is very unlikely that men made that art. There has not yet been found any physical evidence of adult men in any of the decorated caves of France and Spain -- but there are numerous examples of footprints and finger-marks of smaller people, from woman-sized down to baby-sized, and groups of children alongide woman-sized footprints.
For some weird reason most of the scholarship on Lascaux identifies these smaller footprints as "adolescent boys" for no apparent reason apart from, well, sexism. The increasingly unlikely and awkward contortions made to rationalize how half-grown boy children made this magnificent art, rather than any acknowledgement that perhaps experienced adult women artists had a hand in it, feel kinda bizarre to me.
Anyway, here's my art history video. It's educational!
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#Lascaux#Art history#Paleolithic#Cave Art#cave paintings#women artists#women in art#women in art history#art techniques#no seriously you can make a mouth powered airbrush with two hollow bones and a bowl of paint AND THEY DID#also Paleolithic Europeans had black skin#Youtube
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Could you put Homestar Runner in one of the Lascaux cave paintings? Thank you!
My honest reaction
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Ummmm sooooo I did some Lascaux-inspired mugs and I love them...........maybe TOO much? Even just in bisque-fired unfinished form?!!?!?? The possibility that one of these will live with me forever? Is HIGH?
There are three of them* & every single one is my precious perfect bébé!!!?!?!
(I had the good fortune of visiting Lascaux & seeing the beautiful interpretative recreation of the cave paintings when I was 10 and YES they have stuck with me and also YES I did, not long after that, also read Clan Of the Cave Bear at an Impressionable Age!!!!)
*But OH will I be making more!! Don't you worry!!
#pottery#artblog#ceramics#handbuiltceramics#ceramicart#handbuilding#stoneware#clay#Lascaux#cave art#cave paintings#mug#handbuilt mug
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Hi hello hi I come from far away lands after hearing of the one with the paleo tattoo (I saw your post reblogged by someone else and it's my first time visiting your blog) so I don't know if this is common knowledge around these parts, and excuse me repeating the question if it is, but what is the name of the cave from where you found your inspiration? Would you mind telling me more about it? I just loved it and want to learn more
Hello! Sorry for the late response! I don't think it's common knowledge at all so don't worry! The paintings are from the famous Lascaux cave in France, many cave paintings we see of paleolithic art kinda vaguely circulating around online tend to be from that cave. It has SO MANY PAINTINGS IN THOUGH!!! Which is wild not only in the variety they show of animals but style of paintings. So many theories and ideas came from this cave in regard to ancient humans and story telling and documentation and even language it's so wonderful. The cave's artwork is estimated to be around 12-16,000 thousand years old however some estimates I've seen floating around pull it at 23,000 years old at the oldest.
It helped to identify a lot of coloration/patterns of now long extinct animals. Some theories around certain paintings are that torch light is used to animate the figures in a way by moving it back and forth. Also how the nature features of the rock surface and curvature of the cave helped to give some paintings a more three dimensional feel. My personal favorite thing about this cave in particular is that in many, so many ancient pieces of art from carving to paintings is that there are lines and dots commonly seen among them. The current leading theory is that it's more or less a proto language of sorts. I've seen it both discussed as a way to track the animal itself when it can be harvested/hunted in the year or simply a way to count in a visual way. It's so beautiful!
Here's an interview with one of the archeologist who brought forth this idea too. I haven't kept up to date with it so I'm honestly not sure it there are new updates with it.
#anon#ask#mine#Lascaux#sheerballest#lascaux cave#france#cave paintings#cave art#ancient art#art#anthropology#archeology
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Race to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces
To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.
Then they have to negotiate a 137-meter (yard) natural tunnel into the rock, passing through the mouth of the cave until they emerge into a huge cavern, much of it now submerged.
Three men died trying to discover this "underwater Lascaux" as rumors spread of a cave to match the one in southwestern France that completely changed the way we see our Stone Age ancestors.
Lascaux—which Picasso visited in 1940—proved the urge to make art is as old as humanity itself. Read more.
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The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave
Lascaux is famous for its Palaeolithic cave paintings, found in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, because of their exceptional quality, size, sophistication and antiquity. Estimated to be up to 20,000 years old, the paintings consist primarily of large animals, once native to the region.
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Depiction of aurochs, horses, and deer
The cave paintings of Lascaux reveal how stories are the custodians of our values and cumulative wisdom. They reflect our shared past and fate. They are part and parcel of the human community, and a central part of what it means to be human. We are storytelling animals, and always have been.
-- Alexandra Hudson, The Storytelling Animal
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