Cave Art

CAVE ART

The first artists were the cave men. We discuss and examine the images found at Lascaux.  To see the Lascaux Caves in France please click the link.  This is one of the largest discoveries of cave art in one location.

http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php?lng=en#/fr/00.xml

We talk about what the cave men & women may have used to paint since they didn't have stores with paint brushes & paints.  I show images from the Lascaux Caves and we practice drawing animals on white drawing paper.  Then we create a texture rubbing and wrinkle our papers so they feel a bit bumpy because the cave men drew on bumpy walls.  Finally, we use oil pastels to draw our cave art.

I create a cave in my classroom for the kids to experience what it might have been like for the cave men and women to be in a dark area and try to paint or draw.  We hang our cave art in the cave and admire all the beautiful drawings!