In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least so….
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized ….
Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary..
Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing,….
We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the ext….