President Leon Botstein of Bard College steps boldly into the fray to answer one of the most enduring human questions: What is art? This discussion spills over into debates about art's value to society ---- whether access to the arts is right as basic as education or health care, and whether it should be assessed and supported by government or left to the "invisible hand" of the free market. President Botstein explains why it is essential to ask these questions and offers a sturdy basis for evaluating them. He goes so far as to suggest that engaging with art can give our lives meaning and purpose.
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We have seen cave paintings where the splashy red pigment was used to create images by ancient humans in present-day Europe tens of thousands of years ago. Scientists have said that ancient humans used it generally in Europe about 40,000 - 60,000 years ago, in West Asia as long ago as 100,000 years, and by the ancients in Africa as long ago as 200,000-250,000 years. Now, a new study suggests that Neanderthals were also using it in the present-day Netherlands region of Europe as far back as 200,000-250,000 years ago, if not earlier. 
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Researchers examined small quantities of red material on well-preserved flint and bones dug up from an archaeological site in Maastricht in the Netherlands. Via ramblejamble
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The creative arts became possible as an evolutionary advance when humans developed the capacity for abstract thought. The human mind could then form a template of a shape, or a kind of object, or an action, and pass a concrete representation of the conception to another mind. Thus was first born true, productive language, constructed from arbitrary words and symbols. Language was followed by visual art, music, dance, and the ceremonies and rituals of religion. More on ART: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=art
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The six paintings found in the Nerja Caves, 35miles east of Malaga, are at least 42,000 years old and are the only known artistic images created by Neanderthal man, scientists believe. Via Panayiotis
oliviersc's comment,
February 8, 2012 11:09 AM
That's better when you guive the url without what we don't need ...
Cody Costello's curator insight,
March 7, 2013 12:46 PM
Paint was the most common and most depended on way of communicating history and the knowledge and information to the modern world |
