Over the period of 20,000 years, Cro-Magnon artists in Europe worked to produce galleries of art that still astonish modern people. The European paintings are found deep an inside cave is what is modern Spain and France.
The oldest known cave, Grotte de Chauvet is among the most spectacular of all Cro-Magnon painted caves.
It was painted 33,000 years ago and exhibited as advanced an artistic capacity as any of the later caves.
The artists who painted its wall had a sophisticated understanding of perspective and other artistic principles, so much so that the experts first assumed that the paintings were executed less than eighteen thousands years ago, during what was then thought to be the heyday of Cro-Magnon art.
The most frequently painted subjects were animals, pictures in browns, reds, yellows, and blacks for pigments available to the Stone Age artists.
The animals were the games for which Cro-Magnon hunters looked: reindeer, bison, cattle, deer and horses. Many of the animals depicted, such as bison and rhinoceroses, have been extinct in Western Europe for many thousands of years.
Cro-Magnon paintings
