tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post6748872084165549404..comments2024-03-28T11:19:07.506-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Examining Stone Age art using Stone Age lightingPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18560404563636816622021-07-27T21:34:53.034-05:002021-07-27T21:34:53.034-05:00Excellent - when you take a trip back in time, you...Excellent - when you take a trip back in time, you learn how much appropriate technology they had. Of course, they had hundreds of years to figure it out . . . (John Wilder)Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02317597809710979689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-15610091944801952332021-07-27T20:03:40.697-05:002021-07-27T20:03:40.697-05:00Same thing with looking at Victorian decorations, ...Same thing with looking at Victorian decorations, which are meant to be looked at lit by gas light. That crowded room full of stuff takes on a much nicer look under the correct light.<br /><br />Or Renaissance and Medieval art, meant to be looked at with candle, oil or rush light.<br /><br />We must not judge 'period' artwork with modern light. That way lies madness and stupidity and Jackson Pollack.<br /><br /> Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-11694393293693381302021-07-27T17:33:07.367-05:002021-07-27T17:33:07.367-05:00Old NFO: We can only hope that all modern art suff...Old NFO: We can only hope that all modern art suffers the same fate. I can hear it now. "Hey Helen, why is there a jar of poo in this closet?" "Beats me, throw it away."<br /><br /><br /><br />"That suggests the artists may have wanted to keep their work hidden"<br /><br />Another possibility would be that the artist was in everyone's way and so retreated to a high up ledge where nobody else went to do his scribblings. Meanwhile, visitors would look up, see Zogg scribbling, and the rest of the family would mutter excuses about how ever since he came back from the war in Vietnam Uncle Zogg has been a bit funny in the head.heresolonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00461382067580153600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90339723935891473042021-07-27T16:58:48.825-05:002021-07-27T16:58:48.825-05:00How many 'other' pictographs have been des...How many 'other' pictographs have been destroyed/lost because people didn't know what they were? Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72474639566525140852021-07-27T16:54:40.279-05:002021-07-27T16:54:40.279-05:00It's frustrating to think how many works did n...It's frustrating to think how many works did not survive, simply because they weren't produced in caves but were done on boulders and against hillsides. <br />.stencilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10301529692425359238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5354339661013324342021-07-27T14:17:33.716-05:002021-07-27T14:17:33.716-05:00" In a culture that existed before languages ..." In a culture that existed before languages developed..."<br /><br />I would think that some level of language would have been acquired by the time people are painting caves. That sort of painting is a version of language itself. The mental concepts required to express it would make a spoken version very likely.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23711752667018528932021-07-27T14:17:29.771-05:002021-07-27T14:17:29.771-05:00This is why, as much as I appreciate the "rep...This is why, as much as I appreciate the "reproduction" paintings in a stucco cave in museums, there is no replacing the experience of the real thing. I had the opportunity to see paintings in situ at the Grotte de Niaux, in France, one of the few places that allows visitors in the cave itself.<br /><br />For one thing, it reinforces there are NO other markings. No "Thog was here" or children's scribbles or test paintings. No humans ever lived in the cave. Also, you go back through a significant part of the cave before getting to the paintings. They had a particular place in mind (for whatever reason) and *only* painted there, after practicing somewhere else.<br /><br />The only exception was a section of rock before the painting area. It had just simple dots of soot, in rows and columns. When our guide took out a logbook to record how many visitors came, when they entered and when they left, it occurred to me those dots of soot may have been the exact same thing. In modern times they wanted to make sure we didn't cause damage by breathing :D Back then, the cave was clearly a place of power and the soot may have been a magic "we're only here to talk to the spirits, don't smite us" equivalent.Bad Cat Robothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13077601392968724573noreply@blogger.com