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My figures are getting stranger; they are becoming more abstract, more crude, and seem to be growing out of the land. Early human art was more abstract, more crude. Was it trying to represent a thought rather than an exact replica of the real world? Am I? Or is it that I only had 2 minutes to draw the last few images before the model moved! | Imagine how difficult it must have been to draw on cave walls when you never had the chance to sketch from life unless you hauled a dead animal into the cave to practice. Once the first artist became hooked on cave wall graffiti, humans were on the path to pen and paper and our fate was sealed. I theorize that early artists were driven by the same passions that drive today's graffiti artists and which then blossomed into the desire to capture images on the spot, which required portable painting surfaces and tools; which allowed those potential artists who didn't enjoy creating in and for the public, but enjoyed creating on a medium which they could choose to show or hide, to begin creating; which brought different types of people into the picture (pun) to use this mobile record that could be shown, hidden and moved. Communication between humans at a distance is born. Hey it could have happened that way. |