At the moment of jointly guarding "Shanghai", Liu Haisu Art Museum and XiaoyiPu opened a series of aerial workshops to share the knowledge of art history with everyone, so that art can be closer and more interesting to everyone's life.
Lascaux Cave: Horses
A recent aerial workshop focused on the first paintings of humanity, the "Treasure of Painting in caves". In the late summer of 1940, in the dordogne department of southwestern France, four boys took their dogs for a walk in the woods near their home. When they were about to go home, they found that the dog was lost, and everyone turned back to the grove to look for it. Marcel, the eldest of them, heard a dog barking in a hole in the ground, and with great courage he climbed down to check it out. After picking up the dog, the sharp-eyed Marcel suddenly noticed that there was an entrance to another passage in this small hole. This group of curious friends tried to open the gap and enter this "secret passage".
In this way, the Lascaux cave paintings dating back more than 18,000 years have come to light. Visitors were struck by the simple but extremely realistic murals in the cave.
Among the many prehistoric paintings found in the world, the image of the horse is everywhere. In a part of the Rascaux Cave, the protagonist of the painting is a horse, and the "anonymous painter" more than 10,000 years ago took advantage of a bulge in the rock wall, and this bulge happened to be the part of the horse's belly. It doesn't require any rendering, it looks like a robust horse is about to jump off the rock wall...
Cangyuan petroglyphs in Yunnan
Not only abroad, but also in China, more than 10,000 years ago, human beings have long painted with lines. Carved images of early humans have also been found in northwest China, Jiangsu, Yunnan and other places. The most spectacular of these are the petroglyphs in the Yinshan region of Inner Mongolia, with more than 10,000 paintings, the oldest dating back more than 10,000 years, and the "youngest" ones are more than 4,000 years old. These petroglyphs depict a variety of animals, such as tigers, sheep, horses, etc., and of course depict humans themselves.
In addition to petroglyphs, the most representative Chinese prehistoric paintings are the interesting and mysterious patterns on Yangshao faience pottery, the earliest civilization in china's Yellow River Basin. On these clay pots, you can see some very decorative patterns of fish, frogs, and human faces. Archaeologists explain this because of the prehistoric yearning for the super fecundity of fish and frogs, thus expressing a beautiful vision of the prosperity of the tribesmen.
The ancestors of humans did not have paintbrushes and paper, but this did not prevent them from recording in the way they painted. They painted and painted the animals that came to life in the cave, they painted with words, they painted and began to tell stories, and when they painted, they had the unparalleled works of art in the museum today.