2006-07-16 10:29:00 · 8 answers · asked by kekedivine 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Dear they did not have canvas then :-)
A rock, a rocky wall, that's all they had to paint even with blood. Plants. Flowers and all the nature they had around as their color palette.
People left drawings in caves and the like, so to communicate to the next generations what they were like, what happened in their lives, major events or battles or animal hunts. Animals were very much a part of their life's for they lived in the wild.
But since they were rudimentary people too their only written language was "drawings".
One that comes to my mind, is of a Buffalo like animal in a cave, cant remember where though.
But it is one pre historic drawing that is considered the first one discovered and dating way back in time. Thousands of years.
It is fascinating to study about it.
2006-07-16 10:40:18 · answer #1 · answered by noteparece? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals used the cave paintings for many things. To symbolize a conquest, to show a hardship, to entertain themselves. You name it. What comic books are to people today, cave art was to people in prehistoric days. The only thing that has changed is time, technology, and the invention of writing.
2006-07-16 17:36:07 · answer #2 · answered by Andrea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Visualization for the hunt. Recording Events that occurred in the tribe's life. Spiritual communication.
2006-07-16 17:31:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the only medium that they had. Paper hadn't been invented yet. Also, they could communicate concepts which could be passed on from generation to generation without getting garbled in the process, just like we do with books. Finally, they wanted to depict their world just like we do. We have examples of statues and models they created--why not paintings?
2006-07-17 11:46:42 · answer #4 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they used plants to make the paint that they drew in. they were recording major events like if they had a big hunt someone would draw the hunt on the wall of that tribe's cave.
2006-07-16 20:43:45 · answer #5 · answered by daddieslilgirl4_eva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They primarily tried to make petroglyphs that would match their igneous sofas.
2006-07-16 18:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by Oracle at Delphi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because canvas was so expensive love.
2006-07-16 18:08:31 · answer #7 · answered by Danny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There wasn't any paper or canvas.
2006-07-16 21:55:38 · answer #8 · answered by barron44 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋