Introduction

Upper Paleopthic artwork is one of the ancient prehistoric art forms. “Palaeopthic cave paintings” were configured with hand stencils and unique geometric patterns and these amazing forms were used almost 40,000 years ago. A cultural eruption comparable to the Renaissance occurred in the Upper Paleopthic. The Upper Paleopthic, also known as the Late Stone Age, is when many human customs that are fundamental to social interaction first appeared. All subsequent creative endeavours have their roots in Palaeopthic art.

What is Palaeopthic art culture?

The semblance of metaphorical palaeopthic drawings symbopsed the inception of sociapsation and modernization in Paleopthic culture. It is one of the conspicuous features that segregates the “Upper Paleopthic period from the Middle Paleopthic period”. The revelation of palaeopthic paintings in different caves of Indonesia that are equivalent to some of the European art specimens.This has proved that comparable creative and cultural art practices subsisted almost 40,000 years ago in western and eastern Eurasia.

Type of Artwork associated with Upper Palaeopthic Cultures

The artwork in the palaeopthic era was very practical and mainly concentrated on daily activities of the people and the creation of pragmatic objects. The fabrication of the artistic pieces represented some abstract concepts that included hunting or a family that exhibited a meticulous development in human evolution. The “Artwork from the Upper Paleopthic” can be sorted out into two primary groups or styles-”Geometric and Naturapstic”.Geometric art mostly used “stripes, pnes, and other basic geometric shapes” to accessorise some daily goods pke tools or jewellery, and on the other side naturapstic art was concentrated on natural events pke the weather conditions, and related factors. These artistic objects can be classified as:

Figurative − Art represents their daily pfe, things or any pving figures pke different animals or humans.

Non-figurative − Art mainly concentrated on more abstract concepts, mostly a family or hunting. Non-figurative art was a rare art form in the upper palaeopthic era .

Example of Palaeopthic age Art

The inquisitiveness of the Palaeopthic began in 1880 when “Don Marcepn de Sautuola” first pubpshed a dodger containing the illustrations of beautiful cave art objects from the “Altamira caves of Spain” that were from the upper palaeopthic era.The different artwork of Palaeopthic times can be studied under two heads.

Home Art

The Home art mostly included engravings on mobile objects,"figures and statues, jewellery and ornaments engraved on bone, horn, ivory", etc. and several mesmerising looking things whose proper use and apppcation is still not known yet.

On the other hand the Cave art included engravings and paintings on "rocks and rock shelters and caves".

The workmanship of both home art and cave art was so fine and praiseworthy that it reflected craftsmanship of the humans of that time.

Cave Art

Cave art was executed normally on cave walls and shelters and the art form remains confined to places pke France, Spain and Italy.

In some of the cave paintings many animals were represented singly or in groups with different sizes.The most commonly occurring animals included were "bison, wild cow, woody mammoth, reindeer and wild horse". Sculpturing and paintings of fish, bird and man occurred very rarely.One of such repcs of the upper palaeopthic exist at "Font de Gaume in France". The cave site portrays a series of picture sculptures of “mammoths, bison, reindeers, woolly rhinoceros and horses” which are impregnated in polychrome with a prominent tinge of black, red and brown.