Art History - Pre-Historical findings and theories

Cave of forgotten dreams

After having a chance to watch the given movie, it I so fascinating to realize that within a sole cave, there entails an array of history. The olden times really had an amazing type of life. Based in Chauvet, the given cave basically entails implications of piece of art that dates back about 30,000 years ago. During this given period of time, human artistic works mainly involved paintings on the walls and on stone monuments. For instance, part of the beautiful paintings portrayed Ice Age Animals that included horses, lions and other mammals. The pieces of arts are not only good-looking, but also comprises of superior detail in terms of the utilization of the contours along the walls (Laurie, 2016). There is also the presence of footprints mainly of a child depicting the movements during the Ice Age of fauna.

As a great fun of Werner Herzog, one interesting fact about this movie relies upon the attention grabbing nature of narration. The writer of the movie leaves the viewer pondering on what will happen next in form of suspense. It is such a funny movie because the given paintings on the other hand are static in nature. Isn’t the narrating effect just brilliant?

Following this movie, there are certain questions I might raise for instance, why were there a limited number of commentaries? Secondly, why does the movie has absence of drama? According to my viewpoint, it is a movie describing a pre-historic site and more of commendation would definitely assist many viewers understand the contents and the flow.

On the other hand, my dislike about the movie relies on the narration of a comprehensive pre-historic site that is off limits to most of the people. For instance, we are told that only few individuals are permitted to gain access to the cave (Laurie, 2016). Nevertheless, the movie is interesting and worth the while watching. I suppose you will most definitely fantasize about lions!

The secrets of Stonehenge

The first glance usually comes from the highway. Stonehenge appears as a bunch of irrelevant protrusions on the huge, or else undistinguished plain. These great-shouldered figures are so distinctly prehistoric. Up close, in the middle of the confusion of standing and broken stones, it still appears smaller than its repute, not enduring the noticeable feat signified by the erection of the prominent sarsen stones. The interesting fact about the Stonehenge that I am going to discuss is the structures under the surface of the stones. These structures are identified as mysterious grooves that lie beneath the avenue and runs for more than 200 yards. These grooves are the remains of a structure that must have been manmade (Hackney, 2015). These grooves were formed between two innate ridges in the landscape. These groves were formed by the funneled rain water and snow in the ridges during the last ice age that freeze and caused the ground to crack into deep and long grooves. One thing that is so extra ordinary with these grooves is that they are aligned with the solstice. During the winter solstice, the grooves are directly in line with the sunset. This could be the reason why the Stonehenge was built where it is. It is built directly in this avenue with these grooves. This astonishing composure of ancient barrows and grooves has lain buried and unsuspected underneath the Stonehenge area for a lot of years. Scientists discovered this site using complicated techniques to view underground.