Where would we be without the pioneers in mural art?

This is Paul's tribute to the original muralists. Paul mocked up a scene, inspired by the cave paintings at Lascaux, France, but this mural was painted at the World Museum Liverpool.

Early modern humans, also known as Cro-Magnons, are believed to have painted the Lascaux cave paintings. The paintings were created during the Upper Palaeolithic period, approximately 15,000 to 17,000 years ago. The original paintings were discovered in 1940 by a group of boys walking in the Dordogne Valley.
 

The paintings include abstract designs, such as dots and crosshatched lines, and handprints or stencils of human hands. The paintings were made using charcoal and ocher, a soft, pigmented, earthen material that comes in a range of colours. The paintings are a symbolic representation of the fusion of the Palaeolithic human and animal worlds.