Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each site or form to what makes it significant.
- Blombos ochre
- Sulawesi paintings
- Chauvet
- Venus figurines
- Portable art from the Pyrenees to Siberia
- Figurative art as old outside Europe
- Oldest great painted cave; shading and motion
- Abstraction long before figurative art
Hints
- Each entry overturns a comfortable assumption.
- One breaks the idea that Europe came first.
Show the answer
- Blombos ochre → Abstraction long before figurative art
- Sulawesi paintings → Figurative art as old outside Europe
- Chauvet → Oldest great painted cave; shading and motion
- Venus figurines → Portable art from the Pyrenees to Siberia
Why
Each entry breaks a comfortable assumption: abstraction is old, Europe is not first, technique is not cumulative, and the tradition is continental in scale.
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