Art 40,000 years ago

Cro-Magnons and Their Artistic Creativity

Cave and rock painting were generlly large animals and rarly drawings of humans. Red and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal were the natural colors that they were using. It is belived that respected elders or shamans were painting but now it is not really possible to know why they were painting.

I found this video really helpfull to understand prehistoric art

Also, how these paintings are survived?

Encaustic Technique was the reason. Ardis Harsche is one of the artists that uses this technique and her Cave Paintings series seemd interesting to me.