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appears to have been theirs as if l)y instinct. The treasures of their art gal- 

 leries upon the walls of the ancient caves, their remarkable drawings, sculp- 

 tures and paintings fully warrant the distinction wliieli has been conferred 

 u])on tlu'ni in the title oi Paleolithic Greeks. 



The paleolithic artist resembled both the Greeks and the Egyptians In 

 that he was not content w ith plain, uncolored sculpture. Like them, he had 

 recourse to panituig his relicts whether they were of the bison, the horse, the 

 deer or the grt-at mammoths. It was his wont to color such sculptures with a 

 \iok'l tint, w hich may have been a compound ol manganese, or with a red 

 ochre as well as certain other pigments concerning whose use he already 

 seemed familiar. \\ hat characterized the Cro-.Magnon's art more than all 

 else were his close powers of observation and his accuracy of reproducing 

 w hat he saw in the animal forms w hich he chose to depict. The relative sim- 

 plicity of his technical execution depended upon the emplo\ment of the 

 fewest possible lines and the boldest of strokes; these suggested more than 

 they i)()rtra\ ed. It was this very simplicity which ga\e his art its appearance 

 of maturity from the first. It enabled him to express his esthetic feelings with 

 more telling effect than if he had dej)ended upon an infinite amount of detail. 

 To this accuracy of observation and simplicit\- of execution he imparted a 

 third great quality which makes his art live in a class well up to the standards 

 of later and higher periods of artistic dewlopment. This third element wiis 

 the sense of motion and acti\ity, particularly of locomotion, with which he 

 endowed the animals car\ed upon the walls of his caverns, upon bone or 

 ivory, or merely draw n in simplest outline. Perhaps it is safe to say that few, 

 even with all of the refinements of technical procc"dure, have surpassed him 

 in that infusion of \italit\ w hich signalizes his art. 



Reasons far the Development 0/ Aurijinaeian Art. Although it is clear 

 that even before the appearance of the Cro-.Magnon race the much simpler 

 Mousterian man had shown the first teiidencv toward pirmanencv of abode 



