periods and styles w/ don and howard
Polychrome Bison, from the caves of Altamira in northern Spain
-"sympathetic magic"
- portrayal of the desire for hunting, and cave painting used as a symbol to evoke a success of a hunt
- no written record or history of this society
- photography creates a framing of this image that originally doesn't exist; painting is extended beyond these "frames"
- emphasis in soft vs. hard lines; edges are soft and fuzzy- transitions; almost similar to airbrush and may be similarly linked to contemporary techniques of the aboriginals of Australia
Polychrome Bison, from the caves of Altamira in northern Spain
-"sympathetic magic"
- portrayal of the desire for hunting, and cave painting used as a symbol to evoke a success of a hunt
- no written record or history of this society
- photography creates a framing of this image that originally doesn't exist; painting is extended beyond these "frames"
- emphasis in soft vs. hard lines; edges are soft and fuzzy- transitions; almost similar to airbrush and may be similarly linked to contemporary techniques of the aboriginals of Australia