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	Cave Painting
		In fact, the earliest cave paintings, which were made about 30,000 years ago, were done in parts of caves that were very hard to get to.
		In many of the caves, the ceilings are so low archaeologists (the scientists who study ancient history) have to crawl on their hands and knees to get to the paintings.
		The paintings of Vallon-pont d' Arc are mostly of horses, mammoths, hyenas, rhinos, lions, panthers, and bison.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0110374/CavePainting.html (386 words)

	ScienceDaily: Cave painting
		Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times.
		The most common themes in European cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands [which was said to be the signature of the artist who painted it] as well as abstract patterns.
		Cave painting -- Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/Cave_painting (1540 words)

	Painting - MSN Encarta
		Oil painting, which largely supplanted the use of fresco and tempera during the Renaissance, was traditionally thought to have been developed in the late Middle Ages by the Flemish brothers Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck; it is now believed to have been invented much earlier.
		Thus, a method of painting thought to have been used by cave painters involved blowing pigments through tubes onto the cave walls; a somewhat analogous method is that of those 20th-century painters who dribble pigments from their brushes onto canvas.
		In a cave painting at Lascaux, France, for example, a man is depicted among the animals, and several dark dots are included; the purpose of the design remains obscure, but shows the cave dwellers' ability to record their thoughts with images, signs, and symbols.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575854/Painting.html (656 words)

	Cave painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times.
		The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called Macaroni by Breuil.
		Cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria also in the Akakus, Messak Settafet and Tadrart in Libya and other Sahara regions including: Ayr mountains, Niger and Tibesti, Chad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cave_painting (856 words)

	CavePainting
		Like charcoal lines or paint strokes, these 3-dimensional marks are a fluid, highly flexible visual language that is brought to life by an interface responsive to the artist.
		For example, paint strokes would not be able to float or coinhabit the same volume in the physical world.
		While creating with the system, artists fill the Cave with their movements, dancing and painting to music or lying down on the floor and painting while looking up at the projection surfaces are common activities.
	graphics.cs.brown.edu /research/sciviz/cavepainting/cavepainting.html (221 words)

	Cave Paintings
		Cave art portrays human hands; large numbers of animals in different activities, including various species, such as the woolly rhinoceros, which are now extinct, and a few which were extinct even at the time they were painted; geometric figures and signs.
		Cave water and the calcium it contained were used as mixers, and vegetable and animal oils as binders.
		Thus cave art was thought provoking, and the thoughts it provoked provided the impetus for men and women to lay the foundations of theories of life, and of the universe.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/C/cave.html (2368 words)

	Cave painting (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings usually to pre-historic times.
		The age of the paintings in many remains a contentious issue since methods like radiocarbon dating can be easily mislead by contaminated of older or newer material and caves rocky overhangs are typically littered with debris many time periods.
		The commonest themes in cave paintings are wild animals such as bison deer aurochs and horsess and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns called by Breuill.
	www.freeglossary.com /Cave_painting (650 words)

	Cave painting
		When Europeans first encountered these types of paintings some 150 years ago they were often considered primative, but recent reappraisals and new discoveries indicate that many show high levels of artistry of Stone Age humans, and give valuable clues as to the culture and beliefs of that era.
		The age of the paintings in many sites remains a contentious issue, since methods like radio carbon dating can be easily mislead by contaminated samples of older or newer material, and caves and rocky overhangs are typically littered with debris from many time periods.
		The commonest themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, deer, aurochs, and bears, and tracings of human hands.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ca/cave_painting.html (241 words)

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		Cave paintings are paintings painted on cave walls and ceilings in pre-historic times.
		Some cave paintings show surprisingly high levels of artistry of Stone Age humans, and give valuable clues as to the culture and beliefs of that era.
		In 2003, cave paintings also were discovered in Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire, England.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cave_painting.html (108 words)

	Cave painting - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called Maccaroni by Breuill.
		The shamen would retreat into the darkness of the caves, enter into a trance state and then paint images of their visions, perhaps with some notion of drawing power out of the cave walls themselves.
		Cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria also in Mesak Settafet and Tadrart in Libya and other Sahara region including: Ayr mountains, Niger and Tibesti, Chad.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/a/v/Cave_art.html (684 words)

	Cave painting Summary
		The cave paintings are thought to date from about 20,000-15,000 B.C. Their vivid pigments have most likely been preserved by a natural process caused by rainwater seeping through the limestone rocks to produce a preservative-acting saturated bicarbonate.
		Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times.
		Cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria also in the Akakus, Messak Settafet and Tadrart in Libya and other Sahara regions including: Ayr mountains, Niger and Tibesti, Chad.
	www.bookrags.com /Cave_painting (2417 words)

	Talk:Cave painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In answer to your question regarding cave painting, Robot was the name of the dog who discovered the cave paintings at Lascaux (fell into hole and was found barking at the paintings).
		According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal almost all such prehistoric decorations, both cave paintings and ancient rock paintings in the American West, are located where there is some unusual echo or other sound effect.
		Hi all -- The article on the Laas Gaa'l paintings (which was recently featured on the front page as a "Did you know?" item) contains some text plagiarized from a BBC article, and the image also appears to be a copyvio from the BBC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Cave_painting (626 words)

	Painting
		Surviving Early Christian painting dates from the 3rd and 4th centuries and consists of fresco paintings in the Roman catacombs and mosaics on the walls of churches.
		Although his paintings of ballet dancers, musicians, laundresses, and bathing women appear casual and unstudied, the compositions, with their oblique views and asymmetrical balance, were in fact carefully calculated.
		Painted during the last years of his life, these studies are the result of Cézanne's attempt to render the color and volume of a mountain form seen from a distance.
	www.springstun.com /painting.htm (8052 words)

	Cave painting information - Search.com
		It has been suggested in a recent controversial theory that cave painting might be an early form of graffiti [1], but it is still believed to be the work of respected elders or shamans.
		The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called Macaroni by Breuil.
		Cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria also in the Akakus, Messak Settafet and Tadrart in Libya and other Sahara regions including: Ayr mountains, Niger and Tibesti, Chad.
	www.search.com /reference/Cave_painting (866 words)

	Cave Painting Book — Get Specialized In Your Art
		Cave painting is one of the paintings which are painted on cave or rocks walls and ceiling.
		Cave painting book is informative and helpful for beginner as well as the professional’s which will help them to be more creative in their work and able to sown their fine art to the world.
		Cave painting books are easily available in the market and you can also find it online many painting sites offer online sales so you can buy it from there you don’t have to get out of your house to search for.
	www.articledashboard.com /Article/Cave-Painting-Book---Get-specialized-in-your-art/49534 (517 words)

	cave painting
		Strength of her idividuality in painting style is being revealed in combination of realistic elements of an image with figurative and symbolyc conception of painting and delicate feeling of pictorial and plastic expressiveness.
		Cave Paintings - - - Clue to Speech - - - Bubonic Plague...
		Cave painting is a practice which is still carried on today.
	ukrainian-art.com /cave-painting.shtml (1316 words)

	AMY BERK > WRITINGS > ESSAYS > ABORIGINAL CAVE PAINTING
		The paintings appear to be caged for their own protection from prying hands, but the presence of the metal is unsubtle (and unsuitable) to say the least.
		The painted shapes cleverly echoing the natural architecture of the cave lend a fluidity which relates to the curves of the landscape.
		After this exhaustive three week ride on the aboriginal cave painting and engraving trail, Andy and I paused to reflect on all we had seen and to be thankful that our camper van made it back in from the outback.
	www.amyberk.com /essays_aboriginal_cave_ptg.htm (2937 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France, students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors and representations of things we recognize: they are also a way of communicating beliefs and ideas.
		Of the more than 130 caves in the area, the Cave of Lascaux is the most famous -- but all the caves stand testament to the fact that that early humans had complete mastery of the artistic elements we know today: engraving, sculpture, painting, and drawing.
		Today, the caves are not open to the public; they were closed in 1963 after it was determined that carbon dioxide from visitors' breath was causing the artwork to deteriorate.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=362 (2563 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bacteria may be eating away at cave painting (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The main chamber of the Caves of Altamira in the northern Cantabria region is dominated by 21 splendid bison painted in red and fl, seeming to charge across a low, limestone ceiling.
		Discovered in 1868, the cave complex became a tourist magnet and by the 1970s received 3,000 visitors a day — plus their body heat and moisture from their breath.
		Since the waiting list to see the paintings is three years long, the government has built an exact replica as part of a multimedia Caves of Altamira museum that opened last year.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/biology/2002-06-14-cave-pointings.htm (432 words)

	Hall of Bulls, Cave Painting, Lascaux, France (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These paintings were found deep underground, and were undoubtedly painted by the light of torches.
		Moreover, images are painted over previous images, and it is thought that these caves were continuously used for thousands of years.
		These early artists painted with charcoal from their fires, and used earth pigments of iron and manganese to create the permanent colors we still see today.
	seco.glendale.edu /ceramics/lascauxcaves.html (296 words)

	Cave Paintings and Sculptures
		A number of animals painted in red ochre were identified in the Kapova cave, although the style is quite different from those of the west.
		A view near the cave entrance, which is under trees on the skyline in the centre of the photograph.
		The paintings were not discovered until November 1879 when the Don's daughter Maria, aged 5 to 9 years old, looked up from where the Don was digging for tools, and saw a herd of red animals spread across the ceiling.
	donsmaps.com /cavepaintings.html (1072 words)

	Cave painting (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It has been suggested in a recent controversial theory that cave painting might be an early form of graffiti, but it is still believed to be the work of respected elders or shamans.
		In Thailand, caves and scarps along the Thai-Burmese border, in the Petchabuan Range of Central Thailand, and overlooking the Mekong River in Nakorn Sawan Province, all contain galleries of rock paintings.
		In Indonesia the caves at Maros in Sulawesi are famous for their hand prints, also found in caves in the Sangkulirang area of Kalimantan.
	www11.asphost4free.com /david2 (793 words)

	Chauvet Cave Paintings
		First the explorers noticed a draft of air in the minor cave they were surveying.
		Some of the cave bear skulls had been moved to a special position by humans.
		Looking at these paintings, they are obviously substantial works of art, and they still are aethetically appealing to us so many millenia later.
	stage.itp.nyu.edu /history/timeline/painting.html (213 words)

	History of Ancient Painting: ART H340, Painting, Fall 2005: Ralph Larmann: Harlaxton College of the University of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cave art often uses the contours of the cave to define the form of the animal.
		Fresco, or painting on a plaster lime wall, was practiced by the ancient Egyptians.
		literati painting-the literati were a group intellectual elites (much like artists in Renaissance Italy) who expressed their philosophical ideas through painting and calligraphy.
	faculty.evansville.edu /rl29/h340/f05/ancientpainting.html (652 words)

	Chinese Painting-Chinese Brush Painting-China Painting-Oriental Painting
		The coloured pottery with painted animals, fish, deer, and frogs excavated in the 1920s indicate that during the Neolithic Period the Chinese had already started to use brushes to paint.
		In his opinion a painting should serve as a means to convey not only the appearance of an object, but express how the artist looks at it.
		He does not paint shrimps, insects, birds, and flowers as they are in nature; only their essence has shown as a result of the artist's long-term observation and profound understanding of the subjects.
	www.ichinesepainting.com (748 words)

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