Heidi Laird

Picasso famously said that all art after the prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira, Lascaux and Chauvet is derivative. After looking at the Cave Art reproduced in this book you will know what Picasso meant with his startling statement. The ancestral artists who created these images on the walls and ceilings of their cave dwellings must have had a spiritual connection with nature around them that transcended the relationship between artist and depicted object, and allowed the artists to capture the essence of the depicted animal with absolutely riveting intensity.