cave painting

Definitions

1. 1

   The activity of applying pigments to the interior surfaces of caves to create images,…

   The activity of applying pigments to the interior surfaces of caves to create images, especially when carried out in prehistoric times.

   • For several decades, now, he [the modern artist] has taken the liberty of learning how to draw and compose by studying and borrowing ideas from the high periods in all art, as far back as prehistoric cave painting.
   • [C]ave painting appears to have flourished during the last 8–10,000 years of this period and to be concentrated in limestone caves of southwestern Europe (especially southwestern France and north coastal Spain), [...]
   • In another topic on prehistoric man, pupils used 'active learning' methods to construct a 'cave set'; re-enacted cave-painting by homemade candlelight; [...]
2. 2

   The paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if…

   The paintings resulting from this activity regarded collectively, especially if prehistoric; cave art; (countable) an individual painting of this type.

   • No natives of this country could, I think, have drawn the cave-paintings [in Buddhist caves found in Khandesh].
   • Mr. George W. Stow, of Queenstown, South Africa, refers in a letter to the interesting subject of the old cave-paintings by the Bushmen, [...]

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