Did you know there are World Heritage Sites – There are hundreds of them. United States has 23 and France has 43. Did you know that many of these sites in France are preserving art that is 30,000 years old?
The Great Ceiling of Rouffignac, one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful art galleries, is located in Southwest France. Cro-Magnons, the first members of Homo sapiens, settled in Europe 45,000 years ago. They most likely were the first artists. They worked on the walls and ceilings of the caves at Rouffignac and many others caves in Europe.
Let us, you and me, think about why they created art. – Some say it was just doodling, some say it was done by folks high on weed, some say it was like a book to record history, but most likely it was part of some form of clan ritual. But, were the artists men or women? How many artists painted in the caves?
Now that got me to researching a little more. In the caves of Dordogne, more than 60 images of mammoths, horses and ibex are depicted in simple, confident lines that show the artisthad startling talent. Researchers determined there may have been 5 or more artists working together on a single cave wall. They speculated on that count by looking at how many art styles there were. Each artist had different views in their mind.
This cave art is declared a World Heritage Sites. The Cro-Magnon’s were true artists. They did not have an iPhone camera to record what they saw. Nooooooo, Nooooooo, they created what was in their mind. Whether they were driven by idle doodling, smoking a little pot, or depicting what the invisible Gods needed, they presented what was in their mind. They remembered what they saw and then made it a little more startling by letting their mind create ART! That is what I do with PhotoShop and Coreal Painter.
Let us, you and me, think about why I create art. I take reality and let my mind create art as my mind sees it. Noooo, Nooooo, I do not smoke a little pot. I do not casually doodle. I work hard at my art and I do not create images for the invisible Gods, I create art for you.
I really do create art for two reasons:
1. To take on the challenge offered by the computer’s software. I been taking on that computer software challenge ever since I first met a computer in 1956. The computer has not won yet!!!
2. To bring a smile to your face. Some people really laugh when they view my art. I am not sure if they are laughing with me or at me. – In any case, they laugh and that makes me smile. THANKS
So, those are the two reasons I do computer art and write these little stories.
Being an artist is fun even if you never put your art image on paper. Just helping your mind create the art is a fun way to study and appreciate the sky, the moon, the snow, and anything else that is around you. That is why I think there is art.
THE END
This week I created four more brainy quotes for you:
The outside world thought we Brubaker’s talked a little funny. Many of our own words and dialect were established in the 1700’s when my forefathers sailed from Germany. If the teenager in the family said “I am going to redd up the table for you.” Brother, Mother, and Grandpa all knew what was going to happen.
That cave was nice but the the teenage lovers said “This cave is getting crowded and so are all the other caves in the mountain.” Maybe those teenagers went to the California of the day and thought about this situation. She turned to him and said “I bet we could build a cave” He said “How do we do that?” She said “I will go get a bunch of women together, We will all march and carry banners that say “Get out of the way, we women have a house – I mean a cave – to build.” They marched because they knew they were not equal – they were Superior!
That, my friend, is how the first house was build. It was the beginning of a dictionary of new words – Windows, Doors, Mortgages, Chimneys, Real estate offices, Zillow, Multi-listings, Real estate Taxes, Condominiums, and city.
Soon Grandpas were saying “Oh my, what is she talking about?” “What is a city?”