Lascaux Hall of the Bulls - Deer and Aurochs

Lascaux Hall of the Bulls - Deer and Aurochs. Digital oil painting.... more

by Weston Westmoreland

Title

Lascaux Hall of the Bulls - Deer and Aurochs

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting

Description

Lascaux Hall of the Bulls - Deer and Aurochs. Digital oil painting.

Detail of the deer between the two big aurochs in the Hall of the Bulls of Lascaux, France. Digital painting.


It is easy to miss those delicate deer with so many bigger figures around. However, those tiny creatures, drawn with just a few touches, are exquisite. The artist used a chip on the surface of the cave wall to represent the horns of the one in the center, and it was probably this chip that inspired the presence of those deer in the first place.

However, the composition of the left panel converges on those deer, framed between the aurochs and the horse. Different figures of different sizes together in a single, balanced structure. I just cannot stop looking at this panel.

It is hard to find another panel of such beauty, both in color and in variety amongst the most fine and exquisite paintings of the paleolithic.

Aurochs or bulls, deer, horses, and the uncanny figure called the unicorn, in which many recognize two hunters with spears under a piece of fur, this panel is full of energy and life. The peculiar style and variety of figures together in a continuous composition set Lascaux as one of the big caves, along with Altamira, Chauvet or Niaux, to mention some of the most amazing caves so far discovered.

The paintings in Lascaux date from the Magdalenian age, about 15-17,000 ybp.


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Weston Westmoreland.

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November 19th, 2016