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Fascinating stuff SG, but to be truthful it is the cave itself that is the wonder of it all. Half a kilometre long with the most fantastic paintings, John Berger in 2002 was lucky enough to go inside and gives a description here....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2002/oct/12/art.artsfeatures3

" Art, it would seem, is born like a foal that can walk straight away", a sobering thought on Tracy Emin's artwork ;)

Thanks for that link. Tracey's stuff embodies everything that has gone wrong with society, it seems to me. I can't bear to look at it. On another thread I rambled on about buying metal detectors' finds and, amongst them, is a Roman child's toy, a hollow cast pig, two two and a half inches long. (I'm going to list it on eBay at the weekend). That too captures a pig perfectly - in a way that doesn't seem possible nowadays. I have my own Chauvet cave - it's called the Bold Venture and I'm the only person to have visited. If Berger's staement is extended then it is is the making of art that defines us as human.