Archive for the ‘Modern Eyes/Prehistoric Art’ Category

Could we do as well today?

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

I think we read far too much into what our primitive ancestors made. They were the treasured and necessary items of the times made with simple tools, hands and ingenuity. We look at the artifacts and say oh how folksy and naive the decoration is. Could we do as well today? No modern technology. No [...]

Modern Eyes and Prehistoric Art

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Let’s talk a moment about Art and our prehistoric Artistic ancestors. I maintain that all humans are by innate nature prone to create some understandable order from disorder- this human tendency is called Simulacra. Without all the Psychological babble it means we as humans want to see something familiar in everything. Rocks and trees, and [...]