1. Would you go into a strange cave if you found one?

2. That’s what Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel and Simon Coencas did!
-four boys crawled 50ft down into a cave
-SW FRA
-Lascaux cave paintings are from the upper paleolithic
Approx years old
Shows that ppl new perspective
Mostly bovine, some felines, a lot of deer, one man and possibly mystical creatures
Originally let public in to see them but had to stop b/c of the images fading and degradation of the paintings

3. Why did people create cave art?
We aren’t 100% sure!
There are three main theories
Magical invocations to make the hunt successful
Religious signs
Works of art
Leave up on smartboard during cave painting.

4. What would you like historians to find out about you in the future?
Create your own cave painting about something in your daily life
Keep in mind the three theories to explain cave paintings
When you are finished you will have to write a short reflection explaining which theory inspired you

5. Cave Painting Instructions
Magical invocations to make the hunt successful  OR YOUR SPORTS GAME/TEST ETC THINK OF SOMETHING THAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU
Religious signs  Represent some of your beliefs
Works of art  Art for the sake of art!

6. Do you think graffiti is art or vandalism?

7. Banksy
-conceals his ID
But they do want to follow his upward tra­jectory from the outlaw spraying—or, as the argot has it, “bombing”—walls in Bristol, England, during the 1990s to the artist whose work commands hundreds of thousands of dollars in the auction houses of Britain and America. Today, he has bombed cities from Vienna to San Francisco, Barcelona to Paris and Detroit. And he has moved from graffiti on gritty urban walls to paint on canvas, conceptual sculpture and even film, with the guileful documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

8. What are the connections between today’s graffiti and cave paintings?
Listen bird is all over mtl

9. Answer the following questions:
Is there a difference between cave paintings and graffiti, why or why not?
Can cave paintings and graffiti have the same purpose?
Why do YOU think we prefer one over the other?
Don’t forget to write your name on the loose leaf!