The ancient herd. Chauvet Cave

Chauvet cave (FR. grotte Chauvet) is a cave with prehistoric rock drawings 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. Incredible artistic abilities of people, to portray such a powerful expression of the events, the imagination. Researchers agree on the fact that the caves containing drawings in such numbers, were not intended for housing and did not represent a prehistoric art gallery, and were sanctuaries, places of worship, particularly the initiation of young men entering adulthood. Cave paintings were not decoration, but were part of the ritual before the hunt and after the hunt. They were images of animals that people hunted (mammoths, bison, deer, rhinos) and scenes from the hunt. Primitive people believed that the hunt is successful after carrying out certain religious rites.

The picture is made with 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.
This painting is part of a collection of five works. Everything can be placed as a polyptych, because they are linked by common plot, unity of color and compositional structure.
You can place three of them as a triptych with images of groups of animals.
As a diptych, you can use two - the mammoth and rhinoceros.