The origin of artists: Why humans should take credit for inventing art http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/jun/25/origin-artists-humans-art-neanderthals Jonathan Jones, on the Guardian: 25 June, 2012
This
article deals about the origins of art. The autor analyses to who atribute it: Neanderthals or Homo Sapiens.
He describes how
the people always talk rushing and ennoble to neanderthals… the
autor is disagree with this point of vision: The art is a exceptional
sample of intelligence and give us a evidence of a wake up of modern
man`s consciousness; he tries to express that is a fundamental step
for the differenciation with the rest of hominid`s species, a
landmark of evolution. For this reason the autor tries to convince
the readers that the origins of art is legacy of Homo Sapiens. For
that use examples and data of famous and oldest Cave Painting and ask to some experts.
The people think
that neanderthal are the first artist, but, in the last case can be
considerer contemporary to Homo Sapiens. Contradicts this view,
the autor explains with evidence of Blombos Caves in South
Africa, the most oldest artwork. In there found skills and red ochre,
the best tools for paint. If we thinks and compare Neanderthal with
Homo Sapiens and the evidence of El Castillo (Spain) or Chavet
(France) the art expresions modern there aren`t point or line; there
are landscape and portrait of animals, so is the real expresion`s
art; the real origins.
More than art, I like to think of rock art as a way of communication, not art the way modern society sees it. That, because the representation of naturalistic elements is more the way to show a landscape that sorrownds the population who lived there so many years ago, than a desinterested way of art.
ResponderEliminarI complete agree with you.
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