30,000 B.C. Redux: Facing Horses Painting

"Facing Horses" is one work of my cave art series that resurrects primeval art. To express my love of animals, nature, and ancient cultures, my pieces re-interpret the primal power and beauty of scenes from prehistoric caves in France and Spain. Most works of the series were fashioned while in my own "cave" during the COVID lockdowns and an 11-month-long isolating illness. This particular piece re-creates one section of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave in southern France (30,000 B.C.). The original Cro-Magnon shaman artists brilliantly coalesced the elements of abstract visual language -- composition, color, texture, line, shape, form, and pattern in their simplest expressions -- to fashion reverential masterworks of the lives, movements, and spiritual energy of the animals of their world. In my interpretation of "Facing Horses," I used modern painting methods, though the prehistoric technologies were quite inventive. My stucco base affects the uneven surface and cauliflower texture of limestone caves. The shaman artist lined and shadowed the profiles of equine dignity and a background lion's hind with charcoaled burnt wood; I used a purplish black oil paint. The choice of the original cave location capitalized on the stone's natural cracks for a design effect, here created with my incisions in the stucco base. I emboldened the original rock hues of ochre and rust with an abstracted melange of shapes in a calico of colors -- white, celery, buttery yellow, brown, caramel, and cream. Framing is not recommended as it would hide the spillover of stucco over the edges as part of the creative process. Comes with hanging hardware.

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in

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