Saunders Carol Hendricks‚ Art and Culture Film Description 7 January 2012 Cave of Forgotten Dreams The magnificence of art is evident across the ages. The movie‚ “Cave of Forgotten Dreams‚” produced by Wermer Herzog‚ depicts a close up look into the earliest art of the Paleolithic Age found deep in the Chauvet Cave in France. The cave paintings were discovered by three explorers who set out in search of hidden caves in the mountains above the Ardèche River in France. This discovery has given
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Cave paintings have been a mystery to many people ever since their discovery‚ causing many different theories about why our ancestors went into the caves to create their art. An early theory was that it was just art for art’s sake. It was just something to pass the time and had no meaning. Others believe that the paintings were made by Shamans. The Shaman is the spiritual leader of the people and he would have went in the caves for spiritual guidance. Since our ancestors were hunters and gatherers
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In Plato’s Myth of the Cave‚ he explains the ignorance of the current human situation by describing events that happened to men chained in a cave. These men were chained by the neck and legs‚ so they could only face the cave wall. As the men sit‚ they often see shadows of animals and humans from the flickering fire that is behind them. One day‚ a man is released from his chains to venture around the cave‚ making his way out of the cave. During his adventure‚ he experiences blindness from the light
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curiosity aroused by the entrance of a cave. The hunting party ventured across the ravine of the Waghur River. And they discovered several caves‚ against which bush‚ shrubs earth and stones had piled up. Goatherds for shelter were using a few. The Government was informed about this finding and soon the Archaeologists began excavate them. Many experts have been restoring them during the last fifty years. The shock of discovery was worldwide. All the rock-cut caves had paintings on verandahs‚ inner
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Robbers Cave Experiment Jamie Allen Drake University Abstract Robbers Cave experiment was completed by Muzafer Sherif in order to question whether groups are able to work together for a common goal for the whole group. Muzafer showed us through 3 stages a) In group formation b) Friction phase c) integration stage. This experiment was made up of 22 Caucasian middle class boys who shared similar backgrounds coming from a two parent home and protestant background. The boys were complete strangers
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AJANTA CAVES INTRODUCTION Ajanta Caves (Ajiṇṭhā leni; Marathi) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra‚ India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE.[1] The caves include paintings and sculptures described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as "the finest surviving examples of Indian art‚ particularly painting"‚[2]which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art‚ with figures of the Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales
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that‚ “But I cordially dislike allegory in all it’s manifestations‚ and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history‚ true or feigned‚ with it’s varied applicability to the thought and experience of the readers.” A common misconception is that applicability and allegory are the same concept. As Tolkien references throughout his foreword‚ applicability is the freedom of the reader to make connections‚ whereas allegory is a forced parallel created
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Avatar Allegory By: Brian L. H. Alderson Don’t you think that the movie Avatar is very similar to how the pilgrims treated the native Americans? The movie Avatar is an allegory to how pilgrims treated the native Americans because of what took place and where it happened. When the movie opened up into its exposition‚ it mentioned the planet Pandora‚ which was inhabited by these natives called the Na’vi who use bows and arrows which seemed just like how the native Americans were when the pilgrims
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Allegory of A Descent into the Maelstrom The story of A Descent into the Maelstrom that is written by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about an unnamed Norwegian fisherman who survives a shipwreck and a whirlpool and how he realises the mystery of the maelstrom that he states “The larger the bodies‚ the more rapid their descent”. Story contains some specific abstract principles‚ which are the existence of romanticism‚ dynamics of Hegal’s Absolute Spirit and the notion of God and Christian. Those principles
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The Wizard of Oz was released August 25‚ 1939. In this story Dorothy‚ her little dog Toto‚ a Man of tin‚ a Scarecrow‚ and a cowardly lion all travel down a “yellow brick” road (a symbol for gold and a value to our currency) to find the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. After a long journey‚ they finally get to him and find out that he is nothing more than a man behind a curtain speaking through a microphone and operating levers‚ knobs and switches to keep the illusion alive. Frank Baum‚ the writer
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