Today during class, we got the opportunity to go outside and do our own version of the cave paintings we have been learning about in class. Paleolithic cave paintings were very simple yet extremely fascinating in their own way. One of the many theories as to why cave paintings even existed is that they were often used to try and teach a group of people how to do something, such as hunting.
As a class, we split into groups of 5 people and brain stormed some possible ideas for our "cave paintings". After a long discussion of complex ideas, my group finally settled on the simple idea of teaching somebody how to make a pizza. Once the idea was set in place, we headed for the outdoors.
With the long strip of brown paper, we set out boulders to hold it down from being carried by the wind and picked out our group's territory.
We had the colors red, black and white to work with.
Not only did we use the paint supplied to us, but my group smeared dirt on one of the examples of the pizza when it was just plain dough. In order to cook the pizza, we wanted to show a representation of the sun used as the source of heat. To make it more obvious that what we were depicting was in actuality a sun, we mixed in yellow flowers with the red paint and connected flower pedals together to represent the rays of the sun.
As a final product we demonstrated the different stages in making a pizza. Today I personally learned that a lot can be said with little to no words. Bon apetite!
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