2020•ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing ArtsOpen access

COLOUR SCHEME IN ROCK PAINTINGS OF CHHATARPUR

Anjali Pandey, Garima Mishra

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Man's innate expression towards art is manifested by rock paintings. For early humans there were rock shelters. On prehistoric shelter sites, humans marked paintings as their natural expression. Paintings made in rock were called rock paintings. Known prehistoric paintings were discovered by Mercilona di Setuala in a cave called Altamira, located in northern Spain, from accidental exploration in 1879. Rock paintings have been discovered in many places in India Gupta (1987)

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Key concepts: Painting, Rock art, Cave painting, Prehistory, Cave, Natural (archaeology), Art, Archaeology