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Yup, cave drawing sure are primitive and awful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave
That drawing is 30,000 years old.
It stands to reason that that's where the artist practiced until he achieved a desired result. In other words, that's the guy's draft wall. Where's the masterpiece?
Some researchers reckon that the art style was designed to take advantage of flickering fire light to "animate" the images
In some rich bastard's private collection.