Describe the materials and style used to create the wall painting of animals in the Chauvet Cave. What is the most recent theory of the function of Chauvet and similar sites?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The Paleolithic artist painted naturalistic images of animals with charcoal and earthen pigments on the cave walls.
2. Recently, scholars have examined the footprints and archaeological remains in the cave and theorized that it was used as a sanctuary where youth were initiated in ceremonies and associated with symbolic animals.
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A. explains the origins of the deities. B. tells about a great flood. C. glorifies the power of human beings. D. All these answers are correct.
What is one way that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec emphasized the sordid gaiety of Parisian clubs and brothels?
a) expressive and unnatural coloring b) well modeled figures and objects c) portraits of known customers d) detailed representations of lavish interiors