A red silhouette of you on a rock shelter wall
Levantine rock art is paint on the open overhangs of eastern Spain, around 6000 BC: tiny figures in a single dark red, filled solid, with no face at all. Erafy makes a new picture of your photo that way, and the rock is most of it.
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What Levantine rock art was
This is rock art made in daylight, not in a cave. On the pale limestone of shallow shelters in the mountains of eastern Spain, people painted with a single colour, a dark red iron oxide and sometimes black, laid on thin with a fine feather or the chewed end of a twig so the stone's own mottle shows through.
The figures are tiny, two to twenty centimetres, and they are grouped into scenes: a ring of dancers, a figure on a rope ladder at a bees' nest. Each is a flat solid silhouette with no outline, no eye, no face, no shading and no ground line; the swell of a torso and the mass of hair are carried by the edge of one shape. Of a person, then, this craft keeps at most the outline: build, hair and stance, nothing of the face.
Nothing is laid over the photo you have. Erafy makes a fresh picture of it as thin red paint soaked into weathered stone, faded, streaked and lichened. With Situation on it sets you in a scene of the shelters: women gathering snails after rain, or a footrace across a meadow to a lone oak. Compare it with the cave painting of the deep caves, thousands of years earlier.
More pictures
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Weaving baskets -
A couple
Other crafts: Stone and clay
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Cave paintingaround 15,000 BC -
Egyptian tomb paintingaround 2400 BC -
Minoan frescoaround 1600 BC -
Assyrian palace reliefaround 700 BC -
Greek vase paintingaround 450 BC -
Terracotta armyaround 220 BC
Questions
How old is Levantine rock art?
Nobody is sure. UNESCO, which lists around 750 sites as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, gives a broad span of roughly 8000 to 3500 BC, and individual scholars have argued for earlier and later dates. Erafy prints its version as around 6000 BC, inside that span.
How is Levantine rock art different from cave painting?
In place, size and subject, though both are found in Spain. Cave painting is deep underground and mostly large animals, with people as rare stick figures. Levantine rock art is on open overhangs in daylight, its figures are a hand's span at most, and people are the subject: dancing, gathering honey, driving deer, in composed groups that read as an event. Nothing in it is shaded, and nothing overlaps for depth.
What would I look like in Levantine rock art?
Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.
