35,000 years old discovered in the Swabian Jura. Originating some 15,000 years before the cave paintings of Southern France. Aside from the beauty this shows the importance of representational art in human evolution. You can read the article here, and I found it thanks to Thinking Meat. We forget the importance of art and design too often these days. I was working on some text on the plane to Singapore, and it was easier to write when I got the format into a decent design (a lot easier in Pages than in Word). The visual aspect of the page were important not just for the reader, but in this case for the author.
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A great discovery! When I give talks about Virtual reality in the clinical setting, I usually mention how representational art forms were the first forms of virtual reality, as in cave drawings.
But Dave, here's something for you to ponder: For millenia, drawings were two-dimensional. Think caves, Egyptian wall drawings, Bayeux tapestry. All of a sudden in the 15th Century, boom - perspective is "discovered", such as Leonardo's Final Supper. Then all heck breaks loose ending up with Trompe L'oeil. There's an interesting story in human evolution in there - I'll let you ponder it while you cool your heels after the summary dressing down from UncaJerry!
Posted by Les Posen | June 25, 2007 2:33 AM
Posted on June 25, 2007 02:33