If the European cave painters quit or disappeared some 15-18,000 ago, that, added to the 20,000 yrs they did work equals almost 40,000 years, more or less...so far we know. WC
--- On Mon, 12/22/08, armando baeza <[email protected]> wrote: > From: armando baeza <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Geoff, Neurology and "Art" > To: [email protected] > Cc: "armando baeza" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 3:22 PM > I thought it was more like 40 thousand years ago, > Still their aethetics was not bad at all. > I don't know why I do human images ,myself. Do you? > > mando > > On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:09 PM, William Conger wrote: > > >> Cave artist had no theory or books to > >> read...BAAAhummbug!!!!!!!!!!! > >> mando > > > > > > Actually, I think it's fair to infer that the cave > artists did have > > a theory of taste or aesthetics (let's call it a > preference for > > certain ways of image making) But we need to qualify > that right > > away by remembering that the "cave artists" > of Europe painted caves > > over 20,000+ years --not just years ago but they > worked on the cave > > walls over and over for 20,000 years. There are > differences of > > "style" and some mysterious symbols. But of > course no one has any > > sure knowledge of why they made the images. > > WC
