Fig. 50

Montag of various prehistoric human drawings of elephants

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Dinesh ^club

These are all isolated fragments of complex multilayered cave paintings (figure 50) all done by firelight in totally dark caves. Back in the early Pleistocene, the images humans were most wrapped up in recounting were those of greatest animals of our midst. Before any sense of abstraction of symbol or pattern or rule, the earliest human artworks were of the quarries of the hunt, especially the biggest ones: mammoths, elephants. No wonder we are still in awe of animals and trying to figure them out.~ Page 232

With the sketches from the inside of the Cave of the Three Brothers in France we have a magnificent overlay of animals open one another, like the piles of images catalogued in our memories or a child’s story-drawing upon which we can easily recount the history of actions, layers upon layer, leading up to the end of the battle or the hunt. Or you can just ,arvel at the energy and the way the real animals so depicted swirl swiftly into abstraction. . . . . ~ Page 233

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