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This 8 page paper discusses the fact that visual artists attempt to reflect their own complex society as they perceive it. Paeololithic images are considered as well as the works of Camille Pissaro, Marc Chagall, Rene Magritte, and Edvard Munch. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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of a society in which they occur. It may be generally said, that a painting brings into visual reality, or defines, a given emotional
state within a culture or society. This is not a modern thought, but can be seen in some of the oldest existing paintings known. As long ago as 30,000
years, humans created images of their surroundings. Although painted thousands of years ago, the images in caves, such as Lascaux or Chauvet, offer the same sorts of problems
and questions that are applied to contemporary art. These earliest known paintings use line, color and details to create a lively array of animals, yet they appear to be
much more than the colorful rememberings of a hunting past. The Caves of Altamira, Lascaux, and Chauvet all have many chambers. The entrances are obscure and the caverns with
the paintings are difficult to find. It is often necessary to crawl on hands and knees to enter the chambers. The question, then, is why were these paintings
created on inaccessible walls? It has been suggested that they were part of a ritual experience - either as a literal rite of passage, a request to the unseen
powers to insure a good hunt, or an annual event in which the animal shapes were retraced on the wall to insure their continued life, and thus the life of
the tribe. Although some think these images may have symbolic meanings, we have been able to determine that some of the depictions were very close to the physical
animals themselves (Roberson ppg). There is evidence that small stone lamps were used to light the chambers, and mortars ground color pigments in small stone pots. The artists
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