Agustina
A little pasional thinking about Paleolithic Age I'm fascinated with Palaeolithic Age. It's amazing how a primary image of movement was conceived in their paints. The fire provoked in these deeper caves dancing shadows on the draws, which in combination with the multiple legs of the animal's illustrations generated an incredible illusion of movement. The painter (normally the Shaman) into this ritual used the volume of the rocks to gave the impression of a three-dimensional figure. These paints usually had its volume on the stomach, head and the top of the legs. And in some cases, like at the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, you can see in determinate angles and positions, as if they would have done different shots of these animals using front and back rocks to provoke something like a medium shot or a close-up with a long-focus lens . And most extraordinary than that, is the magical thinking identifying this particular era, because all this methodical and mystic process was only to take chance on the enemy, the prey, their food. They draw what their knew and not what their saw. They felt the animal as an extension on their paints and they hunted with their help. And the environment played an indiscernible role because of the sound, of course. There are a lot of intriguing things about that, but I love particularly this, because we only can see something like this after a millions of years later. This ritual was the first face of the cinema.
Sep 23, 2014 5:43 AM