Unknown, Spotted horses and negative hand prints (ca. 22,000 BCE) negative handprints indicate the use of blowpipes to spray the pigment; this is one of the earliest signatures/identification of self there are  200 sites where cave paintings have been found; this one is located at Peche-Merle, France.  red and yellow ochre (natural material used to paint, ground into fine powder/pigment and mixed with water) used reeds and twigs as brushes, and large flat stones to mix and grind paints, like a palette.

Unknown, Spotted horses and negative hand prints (ca. 22,000 BCE)

  • negative handprints indicate the use of blowpipes to spray the pigment; this is one of the earliest signatures/identification of self there are 
  • 200 sites where cave paintings have been found; this one is located at Peche-Merle, France. 
  • red and yellow ochre (natural material used to paint, ground into fine powder/pigment and mixed with water) used reeds and twigs as brushes, and large flat stones to mix and grind paints, like a palette.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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