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minus-squaregivesomefuckslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down6·3 days agoHave you seen cave drawings? Fucking constellations were better representations than humans pulled off for most of our existence as a species.
minus-squarenegativenull@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·3 days agoYup, cave drawing sure are primitive and awful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave That drawing is 30,000 years old.
minus-squareDarkwingDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoIt stands to reason that that’s where the artist practiced until he achieved a desired result. In other words, that’s the guy’s draft wall. Where’s the masterpiece?
minus-squareProfessorHoover@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoSome researchers reckon that the art style was designed to take advantage of flickering fire light to “animate” the images
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccountlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoIn some rich bastard’s private collection.
minus-squareElgenzay@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThat’s one of like three outliers that exist though
minus-squarelate_list@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoOr one of like three examples that have actually been preserved for 30,000 years
Have you seen cave drawings?
Fucking constellations were better representations than humans pulled off for most of our existence as a species.
Yup, cave drawing sure are primitive and awful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave
That drawing is 30,000 years old.
It stands to reason that that’s where the artist practiced until he achieved a desired result. In other words, that’s the guy’s draft wall. Where’s the masterpiece?
Some researchers reckon that the art style was designed to take advantage of flickering fire light to “animate” the images
In some rich bastard’s private collection.
That’s one of like three outliers that exist though
Or one of like three examples that have actually been preserved for 30,000 years