ARTH 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unthinkable, Lewis Williams, Nonmetal
2 Nov 2014
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By studying art we not only learn about the world but about ourselves. Art memorializes humanities cruelty, its tragedies, beliefs, art is at times sacred, it"s imperialistic, it can be innovative, at times romantic, expressionistic, political etc. It"s industrial, and the material it is made out of is innovative. Documentary - prehistoric europeans: people who invented art. We can tell 2 dimensional objects are almost instantly. We know how to create pictures and understand what they mean. In northern spain at the end of 19th century, a 9 year old girl - maria (daughter of. Spanish nobleman) discovered the first gallery of prehistoric paintings. There is a thick veil that separates us from the origins of these mountains. Critics said it was unthinkable that prehistoric people painted it. 35000 years ago something began to change- the creative explosion - when people first started to create images. Prehistoric people were obsessed with animals: horses, oxen, and reindeer.
