Traditional Art

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From dabblers to masters, obscure to popular and ancient to futuristic, this is an inclusive community dedicated to showcasing all types of art by all kinds of artists, as long as they're made in a traditional medium

'Traditional' here means 'Physical', as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

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Detail of horses- wall drawings, Chauvet cave in modern-day France (c. 30,000 BCE) (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Zombiepirate@lemmy.world to c/traditional_art@lemmy.world

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[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Great documentary by Werner Herzog on this cave:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664894/

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes! It's got some incredible footage of the cave.

The Kim Stanley Robinson book Shaman is an incredible prehistorical-fiction book on the people who lived in the area. Well worth a read!

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation!

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

"It's funny to say they are small; it's funny to say they are big. I've been at parties where humans have held bottles, pencils, thermoses in front of themselves, and called out 'Hey look at me, I'm Mr. So-And-So Dick! I've got such-and-such for a penis.' I never saw it fail to get a laugh."

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Worlds oldest Animorph Cover-Art

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

World's* oldest

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I’ve always found French graffiti to be a bit more artistically expressive ;-)

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

École des beaux arts, 30000 BCE

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The one on the bottom looks like a rhinoceros to my untrained eyes.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Title clearly states "horses", please continue to horse-train your eyes.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yup!

It's amazing to me that we have an illustration of a European rhino from before they died out.

[–] bort@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Hard to get more traditional than this!