Chapter IV. Paleontological Art.
4.1 Theory of Paleontological Art. The branches
of Paleontological Art. The Ancient Earth. Fauna and Flora. The Dinosaurs. The
Prehistoric Human. Speculative evolution.
4.2 The origins of Paleontological Art. Rudolph
Zallinger and Zdeněk Burian.
4.3 Paleontological Art in Painting. Mark
Hallett, Gerhard Boeggemann, Davide Bonadonna, Douglas Henderson, Luis Rey,
Phil Wilson, Simon Stalenhag, Alain Bénéteau, Raúl Martín, Mark Witton, John
Conway, Vladimir Nikolov, Joschua Knüppe, Gustavo Marigo.
4.4 Paleontological Art in Literature. Anne
McCaffrey, Jean Marie Auel and Víctor Milán.
4.5 Paleontological Art in Film. Jurassic Park,
King Kong, The Dinosaur Project, Dinosaur Island, Walking with Dinosaurs,
Gertie the Dinosaur, The Land Before Time, Ice Age, The Good Dinosaur, The
Flintstones, The Croods, Cavernicola, Caveman, Altamira.
4.6 Paleontological Art in Videogames. Dino
Crisis, King Kong the Game, Primal Carnage, Ark Survival Evolved, Far Cry Primal.
4.7 Conclusion of the Paleontological Art.
Paleontological art, also called paleoart, is the one that represents periods of the Early Earth, focusing especially on
the fauna, flora and climate of past ages, from the flowering of life to the
emergence of the prehistoric human. Painting and cinema are the most prolific
supports. The representation of Ancient Earth could relate in a certain way to
astronomical art, since the only difference is that in this case only Earth is
shown. The fauna and flora is the most abundant, being extinct life forms. From
the first aquatic animals that emerged in the Cambrian to the exuberance of
life of the Carboniferous, from small invertebrates of the Ordovician to the
megafauna of the Pleistocene. It is usual for plants to be in the background,
but they also have their importance and research work to represent the scene
faithfully, from the first aquatic plants to the forests that populated Earth
later. Undoubtedly, the most represented fauna are the dinosaurs. There are not
many representations that have to do with the prehistoric human, compared with
those of dinosaurs, but there are artists who have also done works on this,
especially about life in caves and hunting scenes, where animals of the
megafauna can appear. Finally, speculative evolution refers to artistic
representations that respond to how certain species would have evolved if they
had not become extinct, even merging with machines, creating cybernetic
organisms.
