Artists doesn’t wait for the right time to let the whole world know about their talent. Frankly, there’s no such ‘right’ time for them. Even if they’re born the time even before Jesus Christ did, they’re innately born with amazing talent anyone can’t take. As scientists look for evidences of the whereabouts of people from the remote past, it’s widely possible to discovered something surprising but really did happened.
One of these surprising discoveries scientists discovered are these paintings…
Well, it just looked like an ordinary drawing, but not with what it had been for ages. These paintings are located at Chauvet Cave (aka as Pont-D’Arc) in the Ardeche region of southern France.
It is believed that these are the oldest-known cave paintings, 1,000 drawings with handprints and depictions of horses and other animals dated to around 30,000-32,000 years ago.
UNESCO said the Grotte Chauvet ‘contains the earliest and best-preserved expressions of artistic creation of the Aurignacian people, which are also the earliest known figurative drawings in the world’.
It has survived sealed off for millennia before its discovery in 1994. Now, it’s recorded 36,000 years old, and now described as ‘first cultural act’ of Europe.
These 1,000 drawings covered over 8,500 square metres (90,000 square feet), making it known to be an exceptional testimony of the prehistoric art.
But unluckily, this cave has been severely restricted to visitors to preserve it’s beauty for posterity..
But although it’s closed to the public, authorities made every way possible to let the world know it by the help of some artists including Gilles Tosello, a graphic artist and researcher.
He worked on full-scale reproduction of frescos of the Pont-D’Arc cave…
Tosello’s work will then be used in a replica of the original cave, which is expected to open in the spring of 2015.
It’s quite disappointing that we can’t be able to see the real pieces, but knowing that it is preserved for future generations makes all of us glad. For at least, people of the future can see the beauty of their mankind from the past. It’s the true essence of humanity, I must say.
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