Horse from Lascaux Oil, Tempura and Clay on Wood Panel	Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France. These paintings are examples estimated to be Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BC. When these images were originally created, it was the convergence of spiritualism and the inherent need to create that inspired this work from its creators. One can only imagine the thoughts of primitive man as he set out on the hardened reality that was his life to paint this image. What is even more amazing is that this image has withstood the test of time for more than 30 millennia. Here I wanted to reproduce the Horse image. The horse itself wasn't considered to be domesticated for another 24 or 25 thousand years. Still the Horse was considered a sacred animal as eveidenced by it very existance in this cave.
Red Bull from Lascaux Oil, Tempera and Sand on Wood Panel	Here I wanted to reproduce one of the many Bull images. Aurochs are depicted in many Paleolithic European cave paintings such as those found at Lascaux and Livernon in France. Their life force may have been thought to have magical qualities, for early carvings of the aurochs have also been found. The Bull was also a powerful image in mythology and one of my favorite subjects to recreate. From the early Mesopotamians, the Minoans, throughout the Indus Valley, Cypress, Egypt, and Roman civilization, The Bull is still a powerful symbol today. I used a combination of primitive media such as sand and a simpler tempura on this piece to try to stay true the primitive expressionism in itself
Chauvet Cave Bison Acrylic on Canvas	The Chauvet Cave or Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave is located near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, in the Ardèche department, in southern France. It became famous in 1994 after a trio of speleologists found that its walls were richly decorated with Paleolithic artwork, that it contained the fossilized remains of many animals, including those that are now extinct, and that the floor preserved the footprints of animals and humans. The Bison was a very powerful totem in Native American culture. What I find most interesting the fact that it was also a powerful symbol in early Paleolithic man in Europe as well. One cannot deny the correlation between all men when a symbol such as this arose in different civilization at different times.