Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind, The British Museum

We had a weekend in London, and on the flight over by KLM I was reading through the inflight magazine onboard the plane, and came over this exhibition at The British Museum. The weather was shitty, so it was a perfect opportunity to explore a museum exhibition.

I am also at the moment reading the final book by Jean M. Auel, "The Land of Painted Caves", so it was a perfect timing to go and see these ancient artworks on display.

http://www.jeanauel.com/

It was really astonishing to see the details in the artwork, and to get an understanding of how time consuming some of these creations were.
Informative video on youtube about the exhibition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slnvRPV4Bas

One of the sculptures on display was the Lion Man (unfortunately a replica), a human shaped body with a lion head.

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ice-Age-Lion-Man-is-worlds-earliest-figurative-sculpture/28595

The Beach

My biggest acrylic painting so far, sitting on top of our "fire place".

 

 

Made it in one evening. When I got tired of nerding in front of the computer.