DIRECTIONS: Materials needed: (1) Access to the internet. plain copy paper- 2 sheets, colored markers, pencils, one piece of notebook paper.
Class Day 1- Log on to each of the following sites to learn about paintings in each one. Spend some time exploring each cave and its various links.
Answer the following questions #1 and #2.
Class Day 2- Then choose one picture that you find appealing to you and copy it down by hand on another sheet of notebook paper as directed.
Sites to explore:
(A) Cosquer Cave site- http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/archeosm/en/fr-cosqu5.htm
This Web site describes the Cosquer Cave located at Cape Morgiou, near Marseilles on the Mediterranean Sea. The unique feature of this cave is that it contains several dozen works painted and engraved between 27,000 and
19,000 years ago. It is decorated with a variety of land animals, but also with seals and auks, fifty-five hand stencils, and numerous digital markings, dozens of geometric symbols, as well as the extraordinary representation of a "slain man."
(B) Lascaux Cave site- http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/index.html
This web site looks at the famous Lascaux cave in France now closed to the public. It has a different variety of animals and paintings in it compared to the Cosquer Cave.
Questions and prompts that you must answer on notebook paper.
1.-What is different about the Cosquer Cave when compared to the Lascaux Cave? Explain
2- What kinds of things do these paintings tell us about the life of cave dwellers or Paleolithic people?
3. Pick one painting from one of the caves above and copy it by hand using a pencil onto another sheet of paper.
Do your best to copy it as it was drawn thousands of years ago. Then color it in if it has color. Next write below your drawing the important information about it for the viewer: what cave it was found in, its “name”, what it represents, how it was drawn etc..
DOING THE DRAWING:
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Materials: blank sheet of paper, colored pencils or markers
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Free-hand copy your chosen painting
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Below the painting include: title of it and which cave, important fact(s), your initials
“The Sitting Horse”-Hall of Chinese Horses-Lascaux Cave
Blowing technique on outline, only horse painted in this pose.