What was the motivation behind paleolithic cave art?

The motivation goes under the generic term of "sympathetic magic" and gave birth to art, acting, music, carving and etc.. It goes like this. read more

Cave paintings, above all forms of prehistoric art, have received more attention from the academic research community. Rock art has been recorded in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. read more

In the art the animals appear to float, using natural reliefs, the cracks and hollows contain fragments, whilst fingers and hand stencils appear to have direct contact with the cave wall. Attempts to find the meaning(s) of Paleolithic rock art include Art for art’s sake, totemism, the Abbe Breuil’s hunting magic and Leroi-Gourhan’s and Laming-Emperaires’s structuralist theories. read more