realize it. The "Allegory of the Cave," by Plato, is more than just a story; it's a tool that can be applied to our life in almost any situation. For instance, looking into this story, I realize how much it is related and connected to religion. It is so easy to just do what everyone else is doing just to feel accepted. Which was me, a conformist, trying to fit in. Plato's story not only opened up my outlook on life, but was an interpretation of my allegory of the cave–being saved spiritually. I did
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figures and cave paintings. In the absence of a written language, early humans were still able to communicate and express themselves, and their spirituality, using pictures instead of words. They could record the locations of successful hunting grounds and invoke the animal spirits to aid them in their endeavors. Cave Paintings Cave paintings are the oldest form of Paleolithic art found to date, and can be found on almost every continent in the world. Until recently, the Chauvet cave paintings
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These paintings on the caves represent a universal artistic expression because it was found at various periods on our five continents. They used many techniques to express art, but one of them was painting with the brush. The brush could be manufactured with the hair of animals and even of vegetable materials. Paintings were monochromatic or polychromatic (Cave of Lascaux). Another technique was painting with the finger, which were made with the finger coated painting (Cave of Covalanas). At that
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Art Before History Preview: This chapter surveys developments in art in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, discovered in sites including Africa, France, Spain, Germany, England, Turkey, and Iraq. The art produced in these periods range from cave paintings and figures, to architectural structures. The art produced in prehistory indicates a shift from recognition of human and animal forms in the environment, to the conscious representation of these forms. It also reveals much about the societies
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The Art of Seeing Essay Nick Cave Soundsuit Mixed Media Page 184 Soundsuit, created by Nick Cave in 2009 resembles a cloud of ceramic birds that surrounds a body suit of crocheted yarn pieces. The structure that resides on the crocheted body suit resembles the flight pattern of the birds, some delicate lines with beads and others strong, steel like structure protruding upwards, almost looking like tree branches or roots of a tree if looked at upside down. The body suit has various colors
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Broken spear thrower. • A lot of the paintings they did were along cave walls and ceilings. • “Hall of Bulls” o Bulls floating on cave walls. o No sense of proportion. ▪ The largest bull is 11’6” long while others are way smaller. • Artists in the Paleolithic period were not aware of a scale. There drawings were all very disproportional. • They did not use frames around their cave paintings so some of them go on for miles. Neolithic
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Why Do Cave Fish Lose Their Eyes? Why Do Cave Fish Lose Their Eyes? This article is provided courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History. Carlsbad Caverns National Park Deep underground there are caves where the sun never shines. If you found yourself in one of these caverns without a flashlight, you would see nothing at all; just total blackness. In some of these underground caves, there are fishes, crustaceans, salamanders and other animals that have evolved to live without light
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Paper II: Biological Study 1. Abstract 2. Introduction In recent years, stable isotope records in speleothems (i.e., calcium carbonate deposits found in caves) have become more and more important as proxies of past climate variability (e.g., Spotl and Mangini (2002), Fleitmann et al. (2004), Harmon et al. (2004)). Speleothems, whiczare found in most continental areas provide high resolution records and can be precisely dated by U-series (Scholz and Hoffmann (2008))
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Allegory of the Cave, Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. The Allegory presents, in brief form, most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually; his idea that knowledge cannot be transferred from teacher to student, but rather that education consists in directing student's
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In Plato's Cave each allegorical figure represents many different things. The cave represents shelter. The cave is a sense of confinement everything about the cave simply becomes like home. The cave is where the prisoners felt safe even though it was like jail. The sun, well the sun in my opinion is hope to a new life. The sun was a new world nothing like the darkness of the cave. The sun provided hope and new light to a world that didn’t only consist of walls. Shadows now became the physical people
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