TRY THIS—Research

Explore the body art images at this Australian Museum site. http://www.amonline.net.au/bodyart/
Describe several influences that you see from aboriginal body art on the contemporary body art the following exhibit site at the American Museum of Natural History? http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/bodyart/index.html

TRY THIS—Explore

Explore this site for the famous French prehistoric cave of Lascaux and take the virtual tour. http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml
Look for examples of different styles of art—naturalism, realism, exaggeration for example.

What is your opinion of why these people painted these images? What themes are represented in this art? Discuss your views with a student who has taken an art history course. (http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/ is another way into the Lascaux site.)

Now explore the sites for the caves at Altamira, Spain and Chauvet, France in the TRY THIS below.

TRY THIS—Compare

Explore images at two additional caves and compare the styles represented. In your words, describe two differences that you observed in the animal images from two caves.

A virtual tour of Altamira is currently posted on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmD6Lo9-l3s.

You can also access specific images from the Altamira Cave by searching Google Images.

Visit the cave of Chauvet (also called Grotte Chauvet) at http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/

Look for the styles of art. See especially the Hillaire chamber Panorama of the North Wall, Panel of horses (click on images for a close look), Hillaire chamber, Panel of the engraved horse, and the end chamber panel of bison.