Primitive
arts |
world arts | Europe 
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Lascaux
cave :
the "bulls room" (or rotunda)
"What
is sensible in Lascaux, what is touching us, is
what is moving. A feeling of spirit' dance lifts
us up before these artworks in which, without routine,
beauty is radiated by feverish movements: in front
of them, what is essential for us is the free communication
of the being and the world around him. Man get
relief from it to get on with this world whose
he is discovering the richness. This movement of
intoxicated dance had always the strength to raise
art above subordinated tasks that it accepted,
that religion or magic dictated to it.
Georges
Bataille, The prehistoric Painting, Lascaux
or the birth of art, Skira, 1955
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