Cave art may have begun in the Aurignacian period (Hohle Fels, Germany) but reached its apogee in the late Magdalenian (Lascaux, France). Cro-Magnons (early humans) used manganese and iron oxide to paint pictures and may have created the very first calender around 15000 years ago. Many of the geometric patterns (known as form constant) which recur in petroglyphs and cave paintings have been shown to be 'hard-wired' into the human brain; they frequently appear in visual disturbances and hallucinations brought on by drugs, migraine and other stimuli. Most archeologists believe that their motivation was religious, making images that only Gods could see clearly. The details of their theology however, remain unsolved.
We were to mimick the Cro-Magnons, and paint a cave painting of our own, which we will put into our name card as part of our design.
An ancient figure, an exaggerated and overblown image concocted by the simpler people of the past. (Read: rabbit on the moon)
Final look for my name card. A deep, rock red colour to mimick the iron oxide found in cave paintings.
