Rhinos of the Chauvet cave

Chauvet cave - prehistoric cave with cave paintings in the South of France. She was entered in the list of historical monuments of France and joined the list of world heritage. The cave was discovered 435 drawings of animals. The age of the oldest drawings is estimated at about 36 thousand years is the oldest cave paintings ever found by archaeologists. Usually in the Paleolithic art mostly featured drawings of animals from a "menu" of primitive human beings, oxen, horses, deer. Chauvet is unique in this sense an abundance of images of predators – lions and cave bears, and rhinos. Such a number of images of rhinos, as for Chauvet, is no longer found in any cave in the world. Is a unique drawing technique. This is a very sophisticated work of art, in which you can see and perspective, and chiaroscuro, and different camera angles. Moreover, there is an assumption that images with multiple contours layered on top of each other, are a kind of primitive animation. When in a dark cave along the figure quickly took the torch, Rhino was "revived" and you can imagine what impact this had on the ancient "viewers".

The drawing is executed in charcoal on paper manual low tide, simulating a wild rock. Each leaf is cast by hand and has a natural live edge, your unique pattern of interlacing of fibers and herbal smell amazing.
The drawing is part of a collection of five works. It is a polyptych; the drawings are linked by a common plot, unity of color and compositional structure.
Two of them, with pictures of groups of animals, can be placed as a diptych.
In a spectacular triptych, you can combine them all.