REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING OF THE SUPERIOR PALEOLITHIC
REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING OF THE SUPERIOR PALEOLITHIC

Summary/Abstract: The present material has as a focus point the existence of Art, of that Art having its true meaning (which is also quasi-updated), the difference being there where artistic manifestations were not then created for aesthetic reasons, but utilitarian one: magical-religious. Therefore, we are compelled to admire even more the high degree of artistry of rupestral representations, and also the evolutive steps made from realism to styling and then back to abstractization – which is born in the human brain once one makes associations and generalizations. Belonging to the dominant culture of the Superior Paleolithic, the Aurignacian (the sculptures of the type Venus are specific to the Gravettian), the painting shows the freshness of perception and the vision of the artist from that time, having not the boundaries of nowadays, but especially the aesthetic taste which is undeniably part of the primitive, appart from the utilitarian purpose, the daily needs.

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