Is art and painting a genetic cast - back? Now since an artist you are standard be thinking right instanter that I should be shot for mentioning double blasphemy, but I ' d like to expound to you why it just might be, and I daydream soon that I ' ve come apart you a bit, that you might just hear me out.
You see, not long ago, I happened upon a simple interesting specialist article highborn; " Prehistoric Tunnel Paintings, " by Christopher Crowned head, I believe it was written back in the late 1980s, but it is just as valid an argument as it ever was. The article explained the " stone age " art which was discovered back in 1994 in the Chauvet cave, perhaps you are aware of this find? The drawings and paintings on the walls, some of which were every bit as good as the sketches in Leonardo da Vinci ' s notebooks - seriously - and they are get this; 30, 000 years old.
This cave is not alone, as there have been 100s of such finds in that area and region of Europe over the years now. In perusing all the digital pictures, which you also can look up online, I was amazed at the detail. Which brings me to the point of this article; painting is something that humans do very well, and since humans have great dexterity, and a strong visual spatial part of the brain, they can paint anything they see, observe, or visualize in their mind ' s eye.
Creativity is a given, and so is painting, if you practice. It is entirely possible that most all of us possess the artistic painting gene? Would it only be those that came from a certain part of the world, perhaps where these cave paintings were found? I wonder about that because we also noted some very artistic artwork inside the caves in the Middle East, and inside the pyramids in Egypt. Ancient work has also been discovered in Japan, China, and elsewhere.
This is of course taking nothing away from you if you are a painter, because there are some people who have not developed the skill, and even though it may be innate, and they may be able to hold their dexterity and their mind ' s eye to create wonderful works of art, they obviously haven ' t yet.
Sure, there are a lot of people who call themselves painters, but not all of them are very good. What I ' m saying to you is this; those paintings they found on the cave walls which were created 30, 000 years ago were quite good. Much better than modern mankind would have assume, and far superior than most of those taking a college art class today. Please consider all this and think on it.
