Cro Magnon Caves: <15,000 B.C.>
Representation of animal figures
A magic theater of the senses
In the beginning, life was created and it was multi-sensory.
By 15,000 B.C. Cro Magnons had evolved, with a brain capable of modern intelligence. With this new intelligence the first art was created deep in subterranean caves in the Dordogne region of Southern France, in caves such as Lascaux, where Cro Magnons marked the birth of the aesthetic with representations of animal figures and coded shamanist scrawls.
Cro Magnons painted fantastic murals of
reindeer, bison, and bulls in these resonant caverns that flickered
with stone candles and smelled of the acrid aroma of animal fat where
rituals were performed.