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Galapagos Altamira and Lascaux: the cave paintings of the School Francocantábrica

Fabricia Luque

In the first art history class met a Paleolithic art form that I loved: rock painting in caves, especially those of Altamira in Spain, and Lascaux in France, known as the School Francocantábrica. Nobody is indifferent to the scenes depicting bulls, horses, cows ... with this high level of realism. It moves me to look at those paintings of about 14,000 BC (Altamira) and 17,000 BC (Lascaux), - according to the analysis of organic material with carbon 14 - and finding a man's ability, even before the invention of writing, of expressing so sensitive and lovely.

Altamira

At that time, men used to build communities of small groups that lived by hunting, fishing, collection of fruits, roots ..., - so are called hunter-gatherers - and they used the caves for shelter from the weather.

The paintings are related to magical beliefs whose goal was to get a rich hunting and protection. Were made with mineral pigments ocher, brown, yellow and red, mixed with binders such as animal fat, while the black contour lines of the figures was done with charcoal. In addition, natural relief of the rock and sometimes the inner model to give a volume effect and mobility. In fact, the highlight of the cave and scraping of certain areas provide a highly mobile images and expressiveness. The rock art could be images of religious significance, fertility rites, ceremonies to promote hunting.

Lascaux

The Lascaux cave was discovered accidentally by four teenagers in 1940, to find his dog had escaped. Discovered the beauty of his paintings, visitors arrived, which caused damage to the cave under product excess carbon dioxide from your breath. So decreed the closure of the cave in 1963, reopening its doors in 1980 after de la implantación de un sistema de preservación que monitorea la cueva permanentemente para garantizar la manutención de las condiciones de preservación de las obras. Si te interesa saber más, visita el sitio oficial de Lascaux .

 La cueva de Altamira la descubrió Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y su hija en 1879. Recibió visitas a partir de 1970, sin embargo está cerrada desde 2002 a causa de la necesidad de preservar su integridad. Hoy en día se puede visitar el Museo de Altamira , donde hay una réplica de la cueva.