Il y a environ 21 000 ans, bien avant l’apparition de l’\u00e9criture, des hommes et des femmes r\u00e9alisaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 de v\u00e9ritables chefs-d’\u0153uvre. Dans les profondeurs de la grotte de Lascaux, en Dordogne, se cache l’un des plus remarquables t\u00e9moignages de l’art pr\u00e9historique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le 12 septembre 1940, quatre adolescents d\u00e9couvrent une grotte pr\u00e8s de Montignac, en Dordogne. \u00c0 l’int\u00e9rieur, ils aper\u00e7oivent des centaines de peintures et de gravures repr\u00e9sentant principalement des animaux.
Cette d\u00e9couverte bouleverse notre connaissance des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s pr\u00e9historiques et r\u00e9v\u00e8le leur extraordinaire ma\u00eetrise artistique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Les parois de Lascaux sont couvertes de chevaux, de bisons, de cerfs et d’aurochs. Les artistes pr\u00e9historiques utilisaient des pigments naturels, notamment des ocres et du charbon, pour r\u00e9aliser leurs \u0153uvres.
Ils exploitaient \u00e9galement les reliefs de la roche afin de donner du volume et du mouvement aux animaux repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La signification exacte de ces peintures reste myst\u00e9rieuse. Certains chercheurs \u00e9voquent des pratiques symboliques ou rituelles, tandis que d’autres s’int\u00e9ressent aux liens entre les images, les animaux et les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de chasseurs-cueilleurs.
Une chose est certaine : ces \u0153uvres t\u00e9moignent d’une grande cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9 et d’une pens\u00e9e symbolique \u00e9labor\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pour pr\u00e9server les peintures, la grotte originale est ferm\u00e9e au public depuis 1963. 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Le saviez-vous ?<\/strong> La grotte de Lascaux est parfois surnomm\u00e9e la \u00ab chapelle Sixtine de la Pr\u00e9histoire \u00bb, en raison de la richesse de ses peintures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n